Gillian Wearing's sculpture Gillian Wearing set out to find «a real Danish family», which will ultimately be depicted as a life -
sized bronze sculpture erected in a central Copenhagen location.
February 3: Sotheby's Achieves World Record Price for Work of Art L'Homme Qui Marche I (Walking Man) the life -
size bronze sculpture cast in 1961 by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 66) sold this evening at Sotheby's in London for a world record price of # 65,001,250 ($ 104,327,006).
To establish «a street presence,» the society has installed life -
size bronze sculptures outside the building — Abraham Lincoln on Central Park West, Frederick Douglass on West 77th Street — national figures with connections to New York.
Not exact matches
Inspired by images of Houdini, the
bronze sculpture Samoa is a life -
size cast of the artist's own body, with chains linking the artist's hands and mouth.
The array of media in this exhibition was rather startling: two videos and a photograph, all rather large (each took up a wall of its own);
sculptures of
bronze and plastic, or
bronze alone, most small, often serially arranged; and works on paper, variously
sized, sometimes watercolors, sometimes subtly mixing watercolor and automotive paint.
Artist: Antoine Poncet, Swiss (1928 --RRB- Medium: Polished
Bronze Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed with foundry stamp Edition: 6/6
Size: 7.5 x 3 x 3 in.
Last week, I made this life -
size sculpture in
bronze.
Alison Saar's life -
size dark -
bronze sculpture with a glass - covered belly that lights up from the glow of fireflies at nighttime distantly resembles ancient monuments of fertility goddesses.
Gillian Wearing has created a limited edition
bronze to accompany her life -
size public
sculpture, A Real Birmingham Family.
As the Public Art Fund, NY states, «Liberty (2015) is a life -
size, candy - coated
bronze sculpture derived from a 1986 found photograph of a Harlem Globetrotter.
This questioning of the continued relevance and future siting of public
sculpture continues a line of enquiry by Jankowski that has previously seen him create numerous life -
size bronze Living Statues (2007)-- simulacra of street performers posing as Julius Caesar and Che Guevara in Barcelona — as well as a giant socialist - realist
sculpture based on an anachronistically luxurious photograph by one of the Mexican Muralists, entitled Monument to the Bourgeois Working Class (2012).
Its title gives it away as a statement against Anthony Gormley's «Angel of the North», a popular public
sculpture, but Perry's terracotta - colored, infant -
sized cast iron «coffin» also borrows imagery from medieval cathedrals and African
bronzes.
Works from the artist's Signature series also feature alongside four life -
size figure
sculptures, as well as painted
bronze Rubbish pieces.
Overview: 136 works included Buddhist and Hindu life -
size stone
sculpture,
bronzes, and gold figures dating from the 8th to the 15th century.
The Sluggard in this exhibition relates to Leighton's second life -
size sculpture (1886, Tate Britain, London), and is one of the numerous
bronze statuettes cast from his preparatory sketch - model.
On view from September 22, 2012 through May 26, 2013, Manolo Valdés: Monumental
Sculpture will include seven
bronze, cor - ten steel and aluminum
sculptures ranging in
size from well over 17 feet tall to more than 50 feet in width.