Awesome Sculpture du Jour

[jOe~]

Eval said it well.

[Giotto]

Boy Jockey of Artemision
Dates from around 150-146 BC
life size

This can be found in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. I like it so much I think I am going to see it this summer.

Discovered 1926 by two fishermen in Cape Artemision . This horse and its child rider was found in fragments in an ancient shipwreck. One of the few representations of Greek horse race monuments probably some dedication to the gods by a wealthy person for a horse race victory.

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[jOe~]

I don't know what to say:

[rika]

We all know a close relative on this site of this one:

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2010/...oor-sculpture/

Installation footage here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuKMT0FEQB8

[evaldart]

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/media/video/11340DiSuvero, bringing it to NYC. I cant wait to see this Governor's Isle show. Especially because I won't be dragging any of MY work there this year (its such a pain-in-the-ass to install there).

[jOe~]

This guy really plays with your mind. See more herehttp://www.artknowledgenews.com/augu...itionhtml.html

[tonofelephant]

It is amazying in person.

[evaldart]

I cant quit looking at those bedrolls...must be the spiraling.....mesmerizing.

[suburbanartists]

Matt i think you missed the Gov's Island show. Pretty sure they packed it up in the fall.

[GlennT]

For some reason the St. Gaudens sculpture posted by jOe did not display for me previously, otherwise I would have chimed in with "right on!".

I actually called up this thread to post a link to a catalog of works by Prince Paul Troubetskoi. On another forum I critiqued a friend's sculpture and mentioned that artist, but was unaware of this link until she posted the result of her researching his work it in her reply.

http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/p...tzkoy_comb.pdf

[Giotto]

Thanks Glenn...
I have seen his work before...what a genius ! This sketch for example, so simple and yet captures something...

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[Giotto]

If this doesn't bring tears to your eyes nothing will...staglieno cemetery of Genova, Italy

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[jim collins]

Check out this Irish Artists.

http://www.aideenbarry.com/www.Aidee...ght_Folly.html

[rika]

Totally taken by Ralph Brown's sculptures, especially his "Savages" and "Meat Porters" series. Fascinating to watch -through his works- how he arrived from realism to abstraction. He even combines realism with abstraction in the same piece with amazing effectiveness.

http://www.ralphbrown.co.uk/savage/

A "savage" pagan seated queen placed in a cathedral? Priceless...

[Kilkenny]

Thanks for the intro to Brown' s work. He has a superb eye for a particular kind of beauty, although it is an established and very safe tradition he works in.

[rika]

Originally Posted by Kilkenny

He has a superb eye for a particular kind of beauty, although it is an established and very safe tradition he works in.

What do you mean by "safe tradition"?

[Kilkenny]

A well established tradition, really. The artist here offers a body of stunning personal work, but he is tilling a well worked field. No criticism - wish I had his aesthetic sense. There is a kind of beauty here that comes from a complex understanding of visual things and their surfaces. There is a love of the stone and an easy love of carving, as, for instance, in the play of textures, something that only comes with a lifetime of experimentation and the accumulation of a mental library of technical and visual options.

[rika]

I like your assessment, Sam, and I have a special appreciation for artists that take extraordinary leaps of a very personal aesthetic that seems to tear apart the very frame of the well established tradition from within.

[Kilkenny]

Originally Posted by rika

...a very personal aesthetic that seems to tear apart the very frame of the well established tradition from within.

Now you have pointed this out, I must look again.

[rika]

Currently I am in love with John Maltby's ceramic sculptures, their unassuming simplicity, reduced-to-essence-form. Especially this one:

[Kilkenny]

Maltby's work - just so sculptural and idiosyncratic. A man's character made in stone.

I think part of the attraction of this work is the return to a naive form of representation and to symbolic forms (bird-man?). This sculpture references simpler iconic and 'primitive' art, and perhaps a time when we were all agreed what are was. This is art with a social function, that reaches out to its viewers. There's no puzzle here, as with much of contemporary art.

[I.Chonov]

Check this guy's work out! - I just can't choose JUST ONE sculpture to post it here:

http://www.dashi-art.com/en/

[raspero]

I especially like that samurai.

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