Whoops, I just repeated this point in another reply to you.
I think its because I idolise the Pre-Raphaelites and Edgar Allan Poe. They were pretty dark and miserable types; or perhaps they were realists.
This is one of my favourite pieces of "Art"
A sculptor's wife died. He sculpted this as a form of both grief and immortalising her. It's a fantastic object, and has been appropriated much in western media.
I don't think he'd have been able to make this work if he wasn't miserable.
I'm good with repetition. Sometimes I forget and this makes it stick.
Of course, of course, this makes complete sense, since I see this in your photos. It's been a long time since I studied that kind of work, so I had to do a refresher. One of your photos struck such a note in this regard, but I couldn't recall why until this moment (was bugging me in the back of my mind). Thanks.
That sculpture is quite incredible from one image. Completely captures the essence of grief. I quite like that. I'm taken with the tension in the outstretched arm, among other aspects. How was this made? You're quite right, he'd never capture that kind of life without pouring the energy of his suffering into it.
I have no idea, but the smart ass in me probably wants to say with a chisel :D
It is a very old sculpture.
It looks like a stone carving but I didn't want to make assumptions. I'm wondering what kind of stone. It would be something local to that area possibly. Ever done sculpture, in particular carving?
Yeah, part of my first year of university as an Art Student was "foundation studies". Even if we knew what we wanted to major in (for me it was New Media - a fancy name for computer generated art at the time... and Photography) we had to do a semester where we tried everything.
At the time I cynical and didn't want to, and probably approached with the wrong attitude entirely.
So I did:
Drawing (and life drawing)
Painting
Sculpture
Installation
Clay
Glass (which was a combination of glass blowing, casting, and etching)
New Media (surprise surprise)
and of course, Photography.
AT least I'm pretty sure those were all the displines I was exposed to. For sculpture I combined it with installation. I etched a piece of Perspex with razor blades, scissors, knives and ink, in a way that it would scatter the light in interesting ways.
Then, I projected a sequence of high resolution scans through that perspex. The sound was guitar strings being scratched, distorted and noisy and I got a "distinction". It wasn't a sculpture in the traditional sense, but I made the argument that if clay and marble and other substances are sculpture of the material world, then by displacing waves of air and photons in a controlled environment, I was sculpting with the room itself as the material, and as people moved through it and saw (and heard) the (intentional) manipulations of space that they themselves were "part" of the sculpture.
shudders at the flashbacks
They always seem to put one through the hoop jumping foundation of exposure to everything. Photography was my focus until I met sculpture and was immediately addicted to 3D. It's funny for me to come full circle back to doing photography for itself, rather than using it to document, show, and market sculpture, which will always be my addiction.
Brilliant complex concept. I am entranced reading your description of this. Thank you for sharing this.
Pretty cool that you got to work with glass. Glass and I have never been friends. It likes to hurt me and I like to break it. Aside from that, I love seeing work created by others.
I made it up on the fly as I was typing. 5 years of art school makes one good at waffling. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide a suitable amount of waffles to consume on a daily basis.
Out of context, this is an amazing sentence
Best way to wing it word flies.
I don't think it's intended to provide such sustance. Waffles make me think of maple syrup, that delicious liquid dark gold.
Now how does that figure? I'm wondering what visual images that brought forth.
Tagging @strega.azure because I think they'll find the description of my installation interesting. :P
Wow, I missed this entire thread @holoz0r and @nineclaws 😳
BTW this post has now more comments than likes, and I don't think I actually can claim any of the credit here:)
Thank you @holoz0r for tagging me. Took me 'a second' to catch up:)
Not sure of material of an angel sculpture - can you upload picture again? When I opened pic few minutes back - it was working, and now I am getting only like 1/4 of top part of the pic. It can be either resin mixed with marble dust, or an actual marble. I would have to see thing up close.
It sounds incredible! I wish to see that:( Always hungry of new ways!
I actually love intermedia, and contemporary art in general.(not a banana stick with tape to the wall, not stuff like that) I don't like labels, they stand in the way of creativity.
On my year there was a guy who was 'sculpting' with theremin (he would create music with it, and the would use the graphic representation of the music wave, and then sculpted it with a thick wire) It was incredible. Very inspiring.
😂😂😂
I don't recall ever seeing a post on Hive with more comments than votes. There should be an award for that.
I see we're both wanting to know about that angel sculpture. I'm betting a type of marble that I'm not familiar with, or a type of limestone.
I've never heard of a theremin. Just took a quick look and am utterly fascinated with something new to me. Thanks for that. I just love learning something new. It's one of the three spices of life for me. No, dill is definitely not one of the other two. 😂
It is called "The Angel of Grief", by William Wetmore Story. Here's a wikipedia page.
Here's an edited version of a chapter in my thesis where I spoke about this sculpture at some length.