“It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them.” – Constantin Brâncuşi
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Category: Sculpture
A Sculpture’s Journey to Hell and Back – Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss & The Process of Indirect Carving
Images and text correlate best when viewed on a wide screen. ◊ When first exhibited in Europe, the U.S., and Japan in the early 1900s, the life-sized sculpture of Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss was perceived as so shamelessly erotic that it was screened off, covered with blankets, or put in a private room where it was […]
Chiseled Bodies – “Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.” – Michelangelo (Sculpture, Direct Carving)
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ Over five-hundred years ago, carrying pages of
Looking Within Shadows and Spaces – The Nature of Japanese Art, Part Two
Please see The Nature of Japanese Art, Part One (September 2019) for background information about the influence of Shintoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism on Japanese art. Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ Japanese artist Nikyoko Ikuta uses only two materials in her work: glass and light. “I am captivated by the […]
Each Dewdrop on the Grass Reflects the Vastness of Moonlight – The Nature of Japanese Art, Part One
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ The art of seeing: two paintings of wisteria were made less than twenty years apart, one in America, the other in Japan. Lush and abundant, if you could pull the clustered blooms closer, it would require both hands. The scent, having been […]
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* – Rodin’s The Call to Arms, Part Two
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ In 1879, Auguste Rodin entered a competition to design a
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* – Rodin’s The Call to Arms, Part One
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ (Above: Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 1871) What makes a
A Perfect Indian is He – Sculptures of The Buddha
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ In 563 BCE, in foothills of the Himalayas, a
Send lawyers, guns and money – Houdon’s Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ¤ There’s something special about marble. Ever since the invention of
