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Raw, brave, wild and honest: why Germany is Europe's greatest artistic nation20h ago ( January 19, 2021 at 11:38 AM ) Germany became a unified state 150 years ago this week – and no other country has produced such original, provocative and powerful art since, from Richter to Klee, from Dix to HöchSituated on the edge of the Alps, Neuschwanstein Castle may not look like the birthplace of modern art. Best seen from a perilously crowded footbridge across a vertiginous gorge, it floats in misty rains, a cloudy dream of white spires and battlements. Yet this 19th-century colossus is an architectural homage to one ma...Tags: Art, Europe, Music, Germany, Painting, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Bavaria, Paul Cézanne, Renoir, Wagner, Richter, Richard Wagner, Palermo Sicily, Aubrey Beardsley 41 people like this. Like Brazilian waxwork figures go viral after old video report is unearthed on social media – videoJanuary 12, 2021 at 11:33 PM The human form has inspired artists for centuries for both its beauty and challenges. Now a Brazilian septuagenarian sculptor has won a surprise newfound notoriety for his celebrity waxworks. Six years after it was filmed, a local TV story on an exhibit by Arlindo Armacollo has gone viral for the distorted depictions and the gushing reporter's commentary. Armacollo's work is the latest in an increasingly long list of celebrity sculptures that have gained fame for not quite nailing the brief'Braz...Tags: Art, Americas, Sculpture, Brazil, Arlindo Armacollo 27 people like this. Like 'Brazilian horror story': internet melts down over sculptor's peculiar waxworksJanuary 12, 2021 at 4:11 PM Images of Arlindo Armacollo’s figures went viral after users unearthed video report about their exhibition in churchThe first household name Arlindo Armacollo smothered in beeswax was Mother Teresa. Then came Albert Einstein, Pope John Paul II and a string of global luminaries who the entrepreneur-turned-artist admired.“It might look simple, but to achieve this richness of detail was hard work,” a local television reporter gushed during a 2015 visit to Armacollo’s waxwork collection in southern ...Tags: Art, Americas, World news, Art and design, Sculpture, Brazil, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, John Paul II, Arlindo Armacollo, Armacollo 21 people like this. Like Artist collaborates with other speciesJanuary 5, 2021 at 7:49 AM Aki Inomata places various materials in tanks and enclosures with animals. She then records the interactions, and in some cases presents the modified materials as sculptures. The effect is often quite lovely.
Image: YouTube / TEDx TalksTags: Art, Video, News, Delightful Creatures, Animals, Sculpture, Tedx, Aki Inomata 46 people like this. Like Artist makes remarkable tiny sculptures and paintingsJanuary 1, 2021 at 11:03 AM  Tags: Art, Crafts, Video, News, Painting, Sculpture, Carving, Xiang Duan 88 people like this. Like Desecrated and hidden for centuries, priest's effigy is restored to gloryDecember 27, 2020 at 2:30 AM Medieval statue smashed in reign of Henry VIII was found behind church pipe organHis stone face was smashed in by Henry VIII’s soldiers during the Reformation. His alabaster hands, once clasped in prayer, were cut off and the angels who cradled his head were decapitated. Afterwards, his shattered form lay hidden for centuries behind an old pipe organ, unseen, forgotten and enveloped in dirt.Now, in a find that conservators have described as “exciting beyond our expectations”, this desecrated eff...Tags: Art, Religion, UK News, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Henry Viii, Derbyshire Continue, John de Belton 1 people like this. Like The best art of 2020: Picasso's doodles, queer South Africa and gory GentileschiDecember 25, 2020 at 7:00 PM Pablo showed his devilish side, Zanele Muholi captured queer lives in South Africa and Artemisia Gentileschi offered a savage ride through suffering and rage. Our critics rank their top showsMore on the best culture of 2020 Continue reading...Tags: Art, Culture, South Africa, Art and design, Museums, Sculpture, Installation, Exhibitions, Pablo Picasso, Tate Modern, Picasso, Pablo, Titian, Zanele Muholi, Artemisia Gentileschi, Bruce Nauman 49 people like this. Like Mary Wollstonecraft statue becomes one of 2020's most polarising artworksDecember 25, 2020 at 5:30 AM Maggi Hambling’s north London sculpture aimed to provoke debate – and a survey of passersby shows it has certainly done that“It’s marvellous, I think it is unbelievably beautiful,” said Hilary Everett, a retired social worker, as she walked past one of the most controversial, most debated and most polarising public artworks of 2020.But Michaela Crimmin, a reader in art passing by a few minutes later, disagreed: “I loathe it. There’s no aesthetic to it. This is one of the very few public outdoor ...Tags: Art, London, Women, Culture, Feminism, Art and design, Sculpture, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maggi Hambling, Hilary Everett, Michaela Crimmin 47 people like this. Like Geometric stringed polyhdron artDecember 18, 2020 at 10:30 AM  Tags: Art, Crafts, Post, News, France, View, Sculpture, Artwork, Ke, String Art, Kevin Hernandez 138 people like this. Like Geometric stringed polyhedron artDecember 18, 2020 at 10:30 AM Tags: Art, Crafts, Post, France, View, Sculpture, Artwork, Ke, String Art, Kevin Hernandez 131 people like this. Like 'There are plenty of schlongs in art' – Maggi Hambling defends her nude sculpture of Mary WollstonecraftDecember 16, 2020 at 1:00 AM Her tribute to the feminist icon caused outrage at last month’s unveiling, but the artist has no regrets. She hits back at her critics – and explains why this women’s rights pioneer had to be nakedMaggi Hambling is listing her favourite sculpted penises. “The Elgin marbles,” she says. “Michelangelo’s David. And Shelley’s, though it is rather small.” She means the Shelley memorial, Edward Onslow Ford’s attempt to depict the sea-shrunken corpse of the drowned poet. She takes a drag on her cigarett...Tags: Art, Books, Women, Life and style, World news, Culture, Feminism, Art and design, Heritage, Sculpture, Men, Mayfair, Mary Wollstonecraft, SHELLEY, Maggi Hambling, Marlborough Gallery 49 people like this. Like Mystery of the monoliths: if only it were aliensDecember 8, 2020 at 11:45 AM The strange, reflective objects that have appeared in wildernesses worldwide were an inspiring stunt but are now just a tedious prankSomeone had to spoil it. That could be the motto of the social media age when things that begin as wonders become mere memes. Now our inability to let well alone is turning the most mysterious art happening of 2020 into another tedious prank.Strange metal monoliths are materialising everywhere, in California, Romania, the Isle of Wight and, according to the latest ...Tags: Art, Spain, World news, US news, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Romania, Isle Of Wight, Netherlands Germany, Wight, Utah California, Compton Beach, California Romania 41 people like this. Like Aldo Tambellini, experimental artist obsessed with black, dies aged 90November 13, 2020 at 7:06 AM ‘Titan’ of the 1960s New York scene, who developed his obsession during the war, received mainstream acclaim in his final yearsAldo Tambellini, the pioneering artist and film-maker who had an obsession with the colour black, has died aged 90. He will be remembered among other things for developing what he termed “electromedia” – the bringing together of multiple forms including strobes, dance, film, poetry and slide projection. “We have lost a titan,” said Stuart Comer, a curator at MoMA in New ...Tags: Art, New York, US, Painting, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Italy, Installation, Moma, East Village, University of Notre Dame, Syracuse University, Tate, Syracuse New York, Yayoi Kusama 44 people like this. Like "Shall I be mean about British art? Okay. Realism and literature haunts almost all British art."November 12, 2020 at 1:40 PM "I surmise that the capacious feel for language, narrative, and drama that seems to be inculcated in the British brain causes a lot of British art to fall into clever commentary, agitprop, or academicism — or be pulled back into realism. Great Britain’s is a primarily literary art; this doesn’t work well visually. I further surmise that abstraction is not foremost in the British mind. So much for my silly xenophobia. The real answer for why most public sculpture is bad — and why this keeps happe...Tags: Art, London, Law, Sculpture, Great Britain, Jerry Saltz, Saltz, Maggi Hambling, Ann Althouse, U.K, Kitsch Feminism Jerry Saltz New York Magazine 7 people like this. Like "She likes jokes. She likes the one David Hockney told her once. It goes: 'The trouble with Van Gogh is if you tell him something it goes in one ear and stays there.'"November 11, 2020 at 6:41 AM  Tags: Art, London, Smoking, Law, Wikipedia, Margaret Thatcher, Sculpture, Naked, Mother, Malorie Blackman, David Hockney, Charing Cross, Motherhood, Oscar Wilde, Van Gogh, Mary Wollstonecraft 147 people like this. Like Why I hate the Mary Wollstonecraft statue | Rhiannon Lucy CosslettNovember 10, 2020 at 12:30 PM Was a tiny, silver, ripped nude really the correct way to honour ‘the mother of feminism’? Admirers like me never expected to be left contemplating whether she had a full bushIt took 200 years, not to mention a decade of fundraising, for a memorial to the great feminist thinker and writer Mary Wollstonecraft to be commissioned and unveiled today at Newington Green in north London, where she lived and worked. For too long, campaigners felt, Wollstonecraft had remained relatively obscure and, from...Tags: Art, Books, London, Women, Life and style, UK News, Culture, Feminism, Art and design, Heritage, Sculpture, Mary Wollstonecraft, Black Lives Matter Movement, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Maggi Hambling, Wollstonecraft 25 people like this. Like A selfie set in stone: hidden portrait by cheeky mason found in Spain 900 years onNovember 1, 2020 at 5:15 AM A British art historian’s painstaking study of the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela uncovered a medieval prankHe is a medieval in-joke, a male figure carved in the early 12th century for one of the world’s greatest cathedrals, but no one has known of his existence until now. The figure has gone unnoticed by millions of worshippers who have made the long pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, north-western Spain over the centuries. He has looked down on them from the top of one of th...Tags: Art, Europe, Religion, Spain, World news, Culture, Architecture, Art and design, Heritage, Santiago, Galicia, Santiago De Compostela, Sculpture, Archaeology, Spain Holidays, Santiago De Compostela Holidays 16 people like this. Like This artist made a cardboard Bernini fountain replicaOctober 21, 2020 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Art, Video, News, Sculpture, Cardboard, Bernini, Jethro Tull, James Grashow, Grashow 63 people like this. Like Maker figures out how to make crystal wingsOctober 19, 2020 at 8:00 AM  Tags: Art, Video, News, Sculpture, Maker, Resin, Bobby Duke 124 people like this. Like Bruce Nauman: 'Jasper Johns poured me a few bourbons – and my legs gave way'September 29, 2020 at 1:00 AM He is a titan of the artworld whose work can be savage, prescient or slapstick. Ahead of a major show, the US artist looks back on studio stunts and liquid lunches with legendsBruce Nauman is telling me a story from his childhood. “I had a friend in high school who was a little bit of a loner,” says the artist, speaking by phone from New York. “If someone hit him with a snowball when we were walking to school, he wouldn’t just throw a snowball back, he’d attack. He’d get ’em down on the ground a...Tags: Art, New York, London, Video Art, US, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Exhibitions, Tate Modern, Performance art, Jasper Johns, Nauman, Bruce Nauman 2 people like this. Like Poland unveils 'superhuman' John Paul II statue in WarsawSeptember 24, 2020 at 10:42 AM Jerzy Kalina installation is response to controversial statue of pope being struck down by meteorAn unusual sculpture depicting John Paul II holding up a meteorite has been unveiled in Warsaw – as an artistic response to a controversial statue showing a meteor striking down the late pope.Jerzy Kalina’s installation outside the National Museum, titled Poisoned Source, shows the Polish pope holding the meteorite high over a pool of red water representing blood. Continue reading...Tags: Art, Europe, Religion, World news, Culture, Art and design, Museums, Catholicism, Sculpture, Christianity, Poland, Warsaw, John Paul II, National Museum, Pope John Paul II, Jerzy Kalina 16 people like this. Like On Jackson Hlungwani: A close encounter with an artistic deitySeptember 21, 2020 at 3:23 AM  Tags: Art, Sculpture, Friday, Art Galleries, Installations, New Jerusalem, Duality, Hand of God, Top Six, Norval Foundation, African tradition, Alt and Omega, Amos Letsoalo, Jackson Hlungwani, Karel Nel, Nessa Liebhammer 62 people like this. Like Royal Academy's cruel dilemma: sell a Michelangelo or lose 150 jobsSeptember 20, 2020 at 3:31 AM The cash-strapped London gallery is to debate the sale of a Renaissance masterpiece that could fetch more than £100mWhen the British artist John Constable first saw Michelangelo’s marble masterpiece, known as the Taddei Tondo, in the Royal Academy, he said it was “one of the most beautiful works of art in existence”.The 515-year-old sculpture had been given to the London gallery in 1829 following the death of its owner, Lady Margaret Beaumont, as an inspiration to students in the academy’s schoo...Tags: Art, London, UK News, World news, Culture, Art and design, Museums, Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, Michelangelo, John Constable, Royal Academy, Taddei Tondo, Coronavirus outbreak, Lady Margaret Beaumont 20 people like this. Like 'Frustrations at US policies' behind Melania Trump statue, says artistSeptember 19, 2020 at 3:00 AM Brad Downey says first lady shows contradiction between US’s position on race in 2020The American artist behind a controversial statue of the US First Lady Melania Trump, unveiled this week in bronze in her native Slovenia, has defended the work as a representation of the contradictions of her husband’s presidency.Brad Downey, a conceptual artist from Kentucky based in Berlin, said the statue that replaced an earlier wooden carving destroyed in an arson attack in July, was motivated by his “frus...Tags: Art, Europe, Kentucky, Berlin, US, World news, US news, Sculpture, Slovenia, Melania Trump, Brad Downey 30 people like this. Like The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers goes virtual for its 2020 exhibitionSeptember 15, 2020 at 8:51 AM The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (RMS) is an art society which normally exhibits at the Mall Galleries - but this year they've decided to go online.It appears they won't...
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[Author: Making A Mark]Tags: Art, Sculpture, Paintings, Miniature Art, Making A Mark, Royal Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors, Virtual Exhibition 13 people like this. Like Johnson Tsang created a very 2020 porcelain workSeptember 14, 2020 at 9:30 AM Hong Kong-based sculptor Johnson Tsang (previously) is known for his fanciful ceramic artworks, and he was inspired during the pandemic to make a lovely piece that reflects the times, titled "Still in One Piece III."
View this post on Instagram "Still in One Piece III" Johnson Tsang Porcelain 2020 Having the ability to see beauty in everyday life is a special gift. #johnsontsang #ceramics #art #sculpture #porcelain ...Tags: Art, Hong Kong, Post, Sculpture, Ceramic, Johnson Tsang 5 people like this. Like Poetic Kinetics announced a massive new art project that can include your message for 2020September 3, 2020 at 12:00 PM Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics is known for enormous shimmering sculptures that float above public spaces. His next project is called Change in the Air, and will include messages you submit in response to the tumultuous global changes in 2020.
To get a sense of how cool and beautiful his works are, here's a nice overview:
It's time to take back the word Skynet from the terminators! Lots of cool behind the scenes stuff on his Instagram:
...Tags: Art, Video, News, Sculpture, Public Art, Kelsey, Poetic Kinetics, Patrick Shearn, Collaborative Art 38 people like this. Like Gabriel Dawe discusses his huge rainbow sculptures made of threadSeptember 2, 2020 at 6:00 AM Installation artist Gabriel Dawe is known for vibrant works that create rainbows using thread. He sat down with the Smithsonian to discuss his work.
Below are some examples of his Plexus series from his Instagram:
View this post on Instagram This is another private commission from 2012, Plexus C7, in a corporate building in the Raleigh-Durham area in North Carolina. #gabrieldawe #10yearsofplexus #instaretrospectiv...Tags: Art, Video, News, Sculpture, Smithsonian, North Carolina, Raleigh Durham, Marlborough Chelsea, Installation Art, Gabriel Dawe 46 people like this. Like Dia Beacon Reopens With a Sonic BoomAugust 20, 2020 at 6:06 PM The D.J. Carl Craig’s basement “club” shows the affinity between minimal art and techno music. It’s an after-party for the Covid age, minus the sweat.Tags: Art, Music, News, Museums, Sculpture, Craig, Donald, Dan, Chamberlain, Carl, Judd, Flavin, DIA Art Foundation, Beacon (NY, John (1927-2011, J Carl Craig 23 people like this. Like Yorkshire church to be adorned with Chronicles of Narnia statuesAugust 19, 2020 at 11:53 AM St Mary’s church in Beverley commissions sculptures of CS Lewis characters to replace medieval carvingsNarnia’s mythical creatures and talking beasts, which have enchanted children for 70 years, have found a new home at a 12th-century parish church in east Yorkshire.Aslan the lion, the White Witch and Mr Tumnus the faun are among 14 handmade stone sculptures being installed on the outer walls of St Mary’s church in Beverley to replace medieval carvings that have crumbled away. Continue reading.....Tags: Art, Books, Film, Religion, UK News, Culture, Art and design, Sculpture, Christianity, Yorkshire, Anglicanism, Cs Lewis, Mary, Beverley, St Mary, Chronicles Of Narnia 38 people like this. Like |
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