Another sculptor that I found in my search. Meg White is an interesting sculptor that she started doing 3D works by paper, and now she uses other materials like bronze,limestone and clay. Most of her works are public works but I found her private works much more attractive. To see her work click right here.

Araştırmam sırasında bulduğum bir başka heykeltıraş. Meg White 3 boyutlu heykel yapmaya kağıtla başlamış ilginç bir sanatçı ve şimdi bronz, kireçtaşı ve kil gibi diğer materialleri de kullanıyor. Çoğu işi kamuya açık ama ben bireysel işlerini çok daha çekici buldum. İşlerini görmek için buraya tıklayabilirsiniz.

Recently, I am working on a paper sculpture for my second project of VA301 and while I was searching I came across with an amazing sculptor. Bert Simons makes very beautiful 3 dimensional pseudo realistic paper portraits and sculptures. Also, I liked his plain but effective web designs. Click here and see more of his works.

Son zamanlarda VA301 dersimin 2. projesi için kağıttan heykeller üzerinde çalışıyorum ve internette biraz araştırma yaparken inanılmaz bir heykeltıraşla karşılaştım. Bert Simon 3 boyutlu, gerçekçi kağıttan  portreler ve heykeller yapıyor. Ayrıca sade ama etkileyici web tasarımlarını da çok beğendim. Buraya tıklayın ve Simons’ın daha fazla işini görün.

God made us.. but You make Gods

The highly-anticipated release of Gold Coin’s first toy has finally arrived.  Having released just over an hour ago, most of these Stick Up! toys have already sold.  This first wave of the toy consists of 10 red versions.  Each figure is hand-numbered with an official Certificate of Authenticity.  Each C.O.A. will be signed by both the artist (THREE – Gold Coin) and the sculptor (END – Argonaut Resins).  Retail is $99.00 USD plus $11.00 USD for shipping.

SOURCE: Argonaut Resin Online Shop

Gabriel Dishaw is an Indiana artist with a talent for gathering scrap metal and parts from old computers, typewriters, adding machines and the like, GD fuses them together into detailed sculptures of junk, including nike kicks and actual functioning robots!

Check him out at www.gabrieldishaw.com.

A photograph is flat, isn’t it? Think again when you view the following life-size photo statues.

In the hands of Korean sculptor Osang Gwon, hundreds of photographs become a life-size copy of the original…

Source:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/look-closer-devil-details/17635

Yep,  I’ve added a new page.  This place is growing by leaps and bounds.  I’m not good at explaining how I do folk art,  so I thought I’d show you from time to time.

http://pjhornberger.com/tutorials/   Check out the new page.  I’m not finished with the flying pig,  but I thought you might be interested in her as a WIP.  She’s a fat thing… 

Of coarse I won’t be showing EVERYTHING I make.  But from time to time I hope to share some details that might interest you.  You know,  folk art makes you such a popular person…. xoxo PJ

This is my first Blog and I’m looking forward to share my view of my work; either it is a photo, painting, sculpture or a drawing.  My art express my feelings, my experience in life and off course some of the artists that inspired me.

Photographer: Duane Michaels

Oil painter: Rembrandt, Van Gogh,  Odd Nerdrum, Titan, Michelangelo, Leon Bonnat

Modern Fantasy work: Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo

Sculpture: Michelangelo and Musee Rodin

Movies: Brazil, Matrix, Ghost

Musics: Michael Jackson (dance and music), U2, Van Halen, Styx, Journey, Metallic, Queen (all time favorite), Red Hot Chili Peppers, 80’s music, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday to name a few.  For some reason I like music only when I paint.

With my passion with music, dance and traditional art; I really enjoy taking photos with the elements into of my work.  I really feel the composition is one of the key to my style.  With the Romance couples photo;  I always want the man to be more than life just like Michelangelo did the sculpture of “David” or Musee Rodin did with “The Thinker“.  If you observe closely the Hands are bigger than the actual human size.  I feel a man should be tough on the outside but gentle to the woman he protect and love.  I enjoy working on the romantic side and it is a bit of me embedded in each photo; it is like magic.  Duane Michals is one of the original story teller photographer that I really enjoy.

Please enjoy Duane Michals work with over 50 years of story telling:

Oh wow! My favourite musician, Andrew Bird is working on a soundtrack! That’s definitely going to be my favourite soundtrack EVER!

But let’s start at the beginning.
Chicago based, multi-instrumentalist, melodymaster and very handsome person Andrew Bird is working on a variety of projects, including a soundtrack.

Mr. Bird released ‘Noble Beast’ earlier this year and  that album was actually pretty succesful (reaching nr. 12 in American charts). He has revealed that he’s currently working on three different projects, at least that’s what he told BBC 6Music. He claimed that he is attempting to finish the soundtrack to a forthcoming film named ‘Norman’, it’s a high school dramedy. ‘It could do quite well,’ he told 6 Music News. ‘It’s got a fairly well known cast and it’s really well written and everything. It is more of a drama, it tackles high school drama without being lame. This is the first legitimate full length film that I did. I had the monitor of the film in the studio and I’m playing. It’s a lot of work. I don’t know if I ever want to do it again.’

He also revealed that he’s working on a set of new songs, including one named ‘Lusitania’ after a stricken passenger ship. ‘I’m using different naval incidents that drew the US into conflict, like the sinking of the maine and the Lusitania is a metaphor for a wounded relationship or something,’ he explained. ‘It actually really works, but it took my like four or five years.’

Mr. Bird has also recorded a cover of the Kermit the Frog favorite ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’(but not in french this time) for the upcoming tribute album Muppets Revisited. The album also features Weezer doing ‘Rainbow Connection’. And rumours say also My Morning Jacket tackle ‘Our World’ as well.

Also Andrew Bird added that he have been working in collaboration with a sculptor on a variety of new instruments. ‘I’ve been collaborating with this sculptor in Chicago who makes these horns that I play through – they are like speakers – to create a whole installation, a room full of these horns that are shaped like poppies, making loops that come out of different horns. It’s like an arboretum of sonic sculptures. It’ll be a travelling museum show. It’s just getting started,’ he said. (But that was actually quite old news.)

I hope he’s playing ‘Lusitania’ sunday!
(forgive me for this crappy YouTube version of the song, but this one has the best sound quality)

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Bronze Crowd  2004

Magdalena Abakanowicz (born June 20, 1930, in Falenty, Poland) is a Polish sculptor. She is notable for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium and is regarded as being one of the most important and influential female artists of the 20th century. She has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland from 1965 to 1990 and a visiting professor at UCLA in 1984. Magdalena Abakanowicz currently lives and works in Warsaw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Abakanowicz

Her name is ‘Precious’.  She’s a doll/sculpture, hangs on the wall.  No clothes.  She didn’t think she needed any.    She likes to be dramatic, always.  Loves her new hairdo.  Red’s always been her favorite color.  That’s why her shoes are red & shiny.  She just adores shiny shoes. 

This is not for a child.   It is not a toy.  It’s art to hang on the wall…. and to make you smile…

All the details will be on the Folk Art Gallery Online page.   xoxo PJ

I have lived in the beautiful English countryside for most of my life

and it is while walking in the landscape, observing my surroundings

in peace, that I gain most of my inspiration. My education is within

the field of fine art. I hold a BA (Hon’s) 1st class and a Masters degree

in sculpture. I returned to the schools that I studied in to teach.

I have recently been accepted onto the AA2A scheme where I will

be producing a new body of work, utilizing the foundry facilities at

the University of Wolverhampton. UK

25 Tons of Field Stone with Cast Lambs Hearts

Pentru ca… mare-i gradina(!) Lui.

“Cand un sculptor face o statuie, le face pe amandoua; taie piatra – distruge piatra fata de cum era – si, prin distrugerea pietrei, creeaza o statuie superba, care nu a mai fost acolo niciodata. Distrugerea si creatia sunt impreuna, nu sunt divizate.“

Building this one… reminds me when I did dolls years ago.  Body parts laying everywhere.  I love paper mache…

Herbert,  that wonder dog.

Shirley always has something to say about everything…. always….

Sign improvements… by Richard

paper mache birds…

As you can see,  I’m breaking in a new camera.  Way too many directions in that book.  I’m going to pretend I know what I’m doing, and skip that heavy duty reading.  Not required.  Have a good week! xx PJ

Altar at Trinity Episcopal Church, Pine Bluff, Arkansas was installed in 1929 by the Italian sculptors who created it. To the delight of parishioners, they sang while they worked.

Now approaching the 139th anniversary of its first worship service, the sanctuary of Trinity Episcopal Church of Pine Bluff, Arkansas,  is an example of timeless design and function. Before the first service was conducted on Christmas day in 1870, the entire cost of some $18,000 to construct the building was paid. See an exterior picture and another interior picture and get in on the beginning of this story on the Photo of the Week page at corndancer.com. Click here to make the trip.

Marble and music

Trinity’s distinctive altar, installed in 1929 was crafted by sculptors at Antonia Studios in Florence, Italy. The three ton work of art took nearly a year to the date to be completed and shipped to church. Sculptors from Antonio Studios accompanied the altar and assembled in it the church. They had other talents. My friends, the late Charles and Alice Warriner, told me years ago that the artisans were imbued with the legendary Italian propensity to sing and sing they did as they installed the altar. According to Charlie and Alice, word of these impromptu performances spread quickly and local people gathered to observe and listen.

This window, a memorial to Julia Embree Roane, was moved in 1929 from the east wall of the church, (now occupied by the altar), to the southwest corner of the nave.

Get ready to rumble

The sanctuary, designed before public address systems were conjured in even the wildest of dreams has acoustic characteristics which give rise to music that will raise the hair on the back of your neck and cover you with goose bumps. The fine organ will rumble the foundation. Add a couple of trumpets or other free-standing instruments and you will hear sounds you will not forget.

The music is made here at thte console by Faron Wilson, Trinity's talented choirmaster and organist. The sounds you hear roll from the chambers and surround you with melody and rhythm.

The building is truly magnificent. It is well preserved and cared for with all due diligence. But the building is a symbol and its true meaning could be lost were it not for the Christian people who make up the parish, occupy the pews and take up the mantle and follow the teachings of Christ. That my friends is the church.

More pictures

Blog picture reproduction, most of the time, leaves a bit to be desired, so I have posted these photos, the photos from Corndancer and several others in an additional gallery with better resolution. See those pictures here.

Thanks for dropping by,

Joe Dempsey
http://www.joedempseyphoto.com/
http://www.joedempseycommunications.com/
http://www.corndancer.com/joephoto/photohome.html

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) Le Tub

Gray’s Auctioneers is pleased to announce the sale of a rare Hébrard foundry bronze sculpture by Edgar Degas, known as Le Tub.

Deba Gray, auctioneer and owner of Gray’s Auctioneers, immediately recognized the sculpture when she first discovered it in a warehouse in New York. What intrigued her was the fact that the sculpture’s base had been violently removed and it seemed to have evidence of fire damage.  Here begins the mystery that Ms. Gray set out to solve. She immediately thought that the piece may have been stolen during wartime, and as such she consulted Art Lost Registry, who informed her that the piece had not been reported as stolen or missing. Further research revealed that the owner had inherited the piece from his father, who had purchased it from a New York City antique dealer 40 years earlier for $25.00. Neither the father nor the dealer were aware the piece was by Edgar Degas because of the missing base, where the signature and foundry marks were located. The father was told that the damaged sculpture had belonged to famed Broadway producer Billy Rose, and that it was damaged in a fire at his Mount Kisco estate in the late 1950’s. Billy Rose had an extensive art collection which was donated to the Israel Museum upon his death in 1966.

Despite the damage, the most important Degas elements remained- that being the girl in the bathing tub.  The problem was the part of the base which was now missing contained all the information needed to authenticate the work. It includes the Degas signature, the foundry stamp and all the other important identification marks on the bronze. After researching various experts that could help authenticate the sculpture Ms. Gray found that Walter Maibaum is the leading authority on the subject and she contacted him. Mr. Maibaum has recently made a tremendous discovery in France; he has uncovered a great number of lifetime plaster sculptures by Degas which were completely unknown to previous scholars and experts. When learning of his discovery, the heirs of Edgar Degas authorized bronze castings from the plasters, and exhibitions of the bronzes will begin in Europe this November. Mr. Maibaum is currently writing a book on the discovery, DEGAS: Sculptures Uncovered-History Revealed which will be published in the spring of 2010.

Mr. Maibaum generously proposed that Deba Gray bring the sculpture to New York so that he and his colleague could examine the bronze side by side with another bronze which was known to be authentic. Much to her surprise, he told her that his colleague is Mrs. Clare Vincent, curator of European Sculpture at Metropolitan Museum of Art who has overseen the Degas bronzes in the museum’s collection for over 40 years. Ms. Gray was even happier to learn that he was able to arrange a side by side comparison of Gray’s bronze with the bronze in the Metropolitan’s collection. A few weeks later Ms. Gray brought the bronze to New York and the two experts made the comparison together. They consulted amongst themselves and agreed the bronze appeared to be an authentic cast made by the Hebrard foundry. Ms. Gray and her consigner were thrilled.

Now that the mystery was solved, another question remained- what is it worth? In November of 2008, Sotheby’s auctioned off a Le Tub bronze in perfect condition for $ 3,778,500.00. Gray’s will be offering this Le Tub bronze for $30,000 to $50,000 on November 14^th at its 25^th Fine Arts and Antique Auction.

Noooo,  that’s not Winnie the Pooh.   I carved this back when bears were so popular.  I love red,  thought red & white would go with the melons.   THEN everyone told me it looked like the Pooh bear.  Darn it.  It’s a PJ bear.  Anyway,  he kept dropping the wheelbarrow, I kept gluing….  soon I was super glued to him and the wheelbarrow… and a nice time was had by all.  xx PJ  Soon I will be over this flu,  and producing some new folk art… any day now… hopefully… or I will go crazy… for sure….

I received an email this morning from Italian sculptor Fabio Viale regarding my post Will a Rock Float?.  I updated the post with his reply. He expressed a bit of concern with my subjective classification of his art as Decorative Art. I guess that means his is definitely Fine Art Design, although he didn’t elaborate further. My thought was since this piece had a functional use it must be Decorative Art. My apologies Fabio, we adore and will continue to admire your talent whatever it’s formal classification.

On the other hand, he did peruse my blog and expressed appreciation in being featured along side of my Sexy Monday posts.  Thank you Fabio, for your considerate reply and your keen eye for sexy! You can read his reply on the updated original  post. See more of his art here. Of course it’s Fine Art, what was I thinking?

Fabio Viale

fabioviale@yahoo.it

Gagliardi Art System Gallery
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 90
10121 Torino

Tel. +39 011 19700031
Fax. +39 011 19700032

www.gasart.it

gallery@gasart.it

Gian Enzo Sperone
Chasa dal Guvernatur Sent
Svizzera / New York

Tel +41 81 8603978
Fax +41 81 860 3979

ges39@libero.it