Statues - AnArt4Life

Painting and carving the horse

Today we begin looking at the horse in Art, from caveman times, throughout history. Image: Public Domain

Linda Klarfeld creating the statue of Max Watters

Today, a video showing the remarkable skill and effort used by Linda Klarfeld in making the statue of Australian artist Max Watters which now sits outside the Muswellbrook Regional Gallery in New South Wales, Australia.

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Good Friday 2022: Poldi Mimovich's Stations of the Cross

Today we mark Good Friday by looking at some sculptures by the iconic Leopoldine (Poldi) Mimovich, which have recently been brought to our notice as residing in a church in a rural Victoria. Image: Margaret Donnellon, Birchip.

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Gog and Magog – Keeping watch in Melbourne for 130 years

Today we look at the history of Gog and Magog, which have been striking the hour in the Royal Arcade in Melbourne since 1892. Image: John Torcasio, Unsplash.

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Hipsters in Stone by Leo Caillard: Playing with Anachronism

Do you love classic statues? How about clothing them to look like "Hipsters"? Different? Yes - this is what artist Leo Caillard has done to prompt us "to reflect on the present in relation to our past". Image credit: leocaillard.com

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Statues with a difference

If you like statues, especially ones that appear in the streets for passersby to enjoy - this post is for you. From Bratislava in Slovakia to Russia, Venice, Marseilles, Iceland. Image credit: statues.vanderkrogt.net

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Anne Wienholt 1920-2018: Art Was Her Life

Australian artist Anne Wienholt leads us into learning about The Merioola Group, Mitty Lee Brown, Stanley William Hayter, Masato Takashige. Anne created in paintings, drawings, ceramics and bronzes.

Dynasty

America’s First Sculptor: a woman of many talents

Introducing Patience Lovell (1725-1786) one of America's first sculptors. With her sister she made portraits in tinted wax and life-sized figures or busts with real clothing. In 1771 she moved to London and established a waxworks show.

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Tiny Statues in Cities around the World

Chizhik-Pyzhik, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Georgian sculptor Rezo Gabriadze created the piece in 1994 Dwarfs, Wrocław, Poland. A nod to Orange Alternative, an underground anti-Communism group The Two Mice Eating Cheese, London. located on upper façade Philpot Lane and Eastcheap in London

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Turning to Water with The Kelpies

The Kelpies are 30-metre-high horse-head sculptures depicting kelpies (shape-shifting water spirits), standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland.

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Different Horizons

Sir Antony Gormley's body is all over the world! If you are new to my blog you might like to read about Gormley’s works Angel of the North and his Another Place.

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Giant Statue Statistics

tallest statues. the Angel of the North is considered quite small compared to some of the other giant statues around the world.

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Christ the Redeemer

Christ the Redeemer sitting atop Corcovado mountain with arms outstretched overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro, where the locals refer to it as Cristo Redentor.

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Getting to know Antony Gormley’s Body

Antony Gormley, in his quest to explore the relation of the human body to space and moments in time has frequently used a cast of his own body as a starting point.

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Constructing the Angel of the North

construction of Antony Gormley's Angel of the North and attempt to answer whether it does represent the transition from an industrial to an information age as perceived by Gormley at its inception.

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The Angel of the North

The Angel of the North is located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, North-East England and was erected in 1998.

Tribute

Remembering Our Wonderful Animals

The Animals in War Memorial in Hyde Park, London. inspired by Jilly Cooper's book Animals in War, and was made possible by a specially created fund of £1.4 million from public donations of which Cooper was a co-trustee.

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Creating Horses

A Work of Art starts with an idea in Judith Leman's case with respect to her horse sculptures, the ideas stem from her love of and close relationship with horses. Following the birth of the idea as Judith Leman explains, time is taken to observe moods, characteristics and conformation.

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The Last Goodbye

It was her great love of horses and her family’s history of military service that inspired Judith Leman to create a series of sculptures recognising the vital role horses played in the First World War. The sculptures tell the stories of the horses being transported to Egypt

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Stirred by Horses

other statues of horses that we found captivating. One of my favourite horse statues is the one that carries The Maid of Orleans outside the Melbourne City Library as shown above. The sculptor was Frenchman Emmanuel Frémiet.

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Mail from London: The Fourth Plinth

There are four plinths in Trafalgar Square- one at each corner. Three of the plinths have permanent sculptures and the fourth acts as a temporary exhibition space and has shown many interesting works. Showcasing The Invisible Enemy should not exist by Michael Rakowitz.

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Stony Eyed, Walleyed & Magnificent

The pupils in the eyes in the statues were usually made from bronze, ivory or precious stones and they have not survived the pillaging that has been going on since humans evolved. In rare cases they have survived. This is Charioteer of Delphi, also known as Heniokhos.

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David's Hands

David - Michelangelo's David with the comment on the genius of the sculptor. So I decided to do a little more research and extend our knowledge of David’s Hands.

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SunSpotting

Sun Spotting Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her oversized figures that embrace contradictory qualities such as good and evil, modern and primitive, sacred and profane, play and terror.

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The Naked Truth

Lady Godiva naked Countess of Mercia (died between 1066 and 1086) There is a lovely statue to Lady Godiva and her beautiful horse in Broadgate, Coventry, England. The statue created by Sir William Reid Dick Peeping Tom

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