tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50001840632604262152024-03-05T07:31:12.162-04:00gay-sculpture blogBlog de la beauté au masculin en 3D.
Blog of the male love and beauty in 3D.J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-83944994027642561172019-04-28T18:28:00.000-04:002019-04-29T18:30:25.721-04:00Hands accross the divideThe challenges in Northern Ireland were represented by the Irish sculptor Maurice Harron, through his 'Hands accross the divide' metal sculpture made in 1991.<br />
Maurice Harron studied sculpture at the Ulster College of Art and Design in Belfast.<br />
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Two men, each belonging to opposing groups, standing on top of a wall, still searching to live in peace and harmony. And what seems a huge pit between them.<br />
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The monument is located in Derry (LondonDerry), on Carlisle Square. The sculptor Maurice Harron is from there as well. Done in 1991, it was unveiled the following year, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 'Bloody Sunday' during which 13 persons were killed by the British Army during a civil rights demonstration.<br />
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<a href="https://www.guide-irlande.com/sites-touristiques/hands-across-the-divide/" target="_blank">French text about the sculpture</a><br />
<a href="https://www.britain-magazine.com/carousel/derrylondonderry-transformation-of-a-city/" target="_blank">Britain Magazine</a>J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-40681531300806574372019-03-23T11:26:00.000-04:002019-03-23T18:51:41.004-04:00Takashi Murakami and his lonesome cowboyThis lonesome cowboy, a geant nude male sculpture of Murakami was certainly a surprise in the Tokyo art gallery where it was displayed, and certainly attracted most of the attention.<br />
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Created in 1998, it represents a young man and his sperm in a lasso shape around his body, in a style that we would compare to manga cartoons and pop culture, or also what is now called in Japan as the Otaku culture.<br />
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It was made in resin, with oil and acrylic paints, and measures 3 meters high. In addition to Japan, it was also exhibited in London and Los Angeles.<br />
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Murakami does not expressively shows gay scenes in his work, but sometimes he creates a homoerotic theme. Like this 'CowBoy' proud to show his sperm or masturbation act. A critic mentioned that it was possibly to show the macho spirit in America, the masculinity, the bond among men.<br />
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Takashi Murakami is born in Tokyo in 1962. Wanted to create cartoons. Had a father taxi driver. He succeeded to enter at the Arts University. He founded his own workshop at age 33. Then worked for Louis Vuitton in 2004, creating new colored designs with the famous logo. Had a famous although controversed exhibition in Versailles Palais des Glaces in 2010.<br />
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Below are two links for short videos about Murakami. The first one is about the Otaku culture, the next one is at the Brooklyn Museum.of Art, where the 2nd retrospective about the artist took place, after the one in Los Angeles<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/UWYEPbnQyXU" target="_blank">Murakami and the Otaku Culture</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxmMxi-lelg" target="_blank">Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum of Art</a><br />
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Sources<br />
<a href="https://bohatala.com/summary-of-murakami-takashis-my-lonesome-cowboy/" target="_blank">My-lonesome-cowboy description</a><br />
<a href="http://archive.metropolis.co.jp/biginjapanarchive349/329/biginjapaninc.htm" target="_blank">Archive Metropolis</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami" target="_blank">Wikipedia Takashi_Murakami</a><br />
<br />J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-40864021158264536452019-02-24T06:33:00.000-04:002019-02-25T08:06:11.807-04:00Mowgli and the Jungle book in sculpturesMowgli and the Jungle Book characters sculptures are well spread in the world, showing the extent of Rudyard Kipling's values transmission and interest. They can be seen in Australia, Belgium, France, Holland, UK, USA, Korea, Ukraine, Russia, ... They are made of clay, bronze, stone, copper, lead, sand, wood, and even ice.<br />
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Rudyard Kipling's books (The Jungle book / Mowgli, Kim, ...) greatly influenced Lord Baden Powell to create the boy scouts movement in 1907, who integrated these stories with Kipling's agreement, in order to build his education themes for the youth of that time, and still today. Such as outdoor living, team play, qualities or virtues of each animal to be acquired, like leadership, courage, strength, wisdom, tenacity, brotherhood, etc.<br />
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So here are a few examples. First from Max Le Verrier, famous French sculptor known for his art deco sculptures, who made this Mowgli in 1925.<br />
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A few years later, Raymond Delamarre also a French sculptor, who read the Jungle Book as a child and loved this book his whole life, created a large bas-relief for the dining room of Jacques Dembiermont villa, in Brittany, around the Mowgli theme. Delamarre did several sketches, looking at the live animals in the Paris 'Jardin des Plantes'.<br />
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This bas-relief impressed many architects, so Delamarre agreed to create a few more for the purpose of large decoration projects in the following years. He also made this sculpture.<br />
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Other bas-reliefs (13 actually) are also visible at the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, New York, made around 1935, by several American sculptors (William Hunt Diederich, Joseph Walter, Frederik G R Roth).<br />
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Here a few other Mowgli sculptures.</div>
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Below are three sculptures or bas-relief from John Lockwood Kipling, the father of Rudyard Kipling, the first one showing Mowgli on a cliff before jumping in water to escape wasps.<br />
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Other sculptures from Mowgli.<br />
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This one is located in Ukraine, at the Nikolaev zoo, and was sculpted in 1978 by Inna Makushina.</div>
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This is a Mowgli sculpture made with ice, during the winter 2009-2010 in front of the designer outlet in Roermand, Holland.<br />
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And here is a memorial plaque in lead, modelled by Benno Elkan, located on the Kipling Building in Windsor, UK.<br />
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<a href="https://www.atelier-raymond-delamarre.fr/mowgli.html" target="_blank">Atelier Raymond Delamarre</a><br />
<a href="http://www.junglebook-collection.nl/statue.html" target="_blank">Junglebook collection</a><br />
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A passionate reader of this blog suggested to include Malvina Hoffman in the sculptors mentioned here, with a focus on her Nuer Man, the African warrior standing nude on one leg.<br />
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Indeed, her talent and achievements are impressive : she sculpted more than 100 life-sized mainly male sculptures based on real models, to illustrate the diverse groups of cultures around the world. Our dear reader, based in Chicago, was lucky to meet himself some of these Nuer tribesmen when he spent some time in Western Ethiopia and South Sudan.<br />
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As he says, "Hoffmann's sculptures were largely 'hidden away' for years because their realism was considered an 'embarassment' ... even though her sculptures were amazingly accurate. She took meticulous measurements of every part of her subjects: nose, arms, penis, everything. Even the Nuer Man was pulled from the floor of the Art Institute of Chicago for a while; but they created a new space where they now display a number of works by her, including this piece".<br />
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Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966), born in New York, was from an artist background (her father was an excellent pianist) and he encouraged her to sculpt. So did the famous sculptor of Mt Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, seeing a bust that she had sculpted. When her father died, she moved to Italy then Paris as she wanted to continue to study art, and she wanted to do it with Rodin!<br />
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And she succeeded (after many attemps to meet him!). She studied with him from 1910 to 1914. Rodin was reportedly impressed by both her persistency, and the quality of two busts she did (the one of her father, and another bust she had made of a young violin soloist named Samuel
Grimson, who would later become her husband.<br />
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"Rodin’s essence of teaching as per her statement is “Do not be afraid of realism”<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">.</span> He later convinced her to return to Manhattan to spend a year dissecting bodies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The education she received there was invaluable, honing her remarkable skill of rendering anatomical features that was evidenced highly when she embarked on her ambitious project to sculpt the anthropological series."<br />
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"Stanley Field, director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Museum_of_Natural_History" title="Field Museum of Natural History">Field Museum of Natural History</a>
in Chicago, commissioned Hoffman to create sculptures of people
representing members of the diverse groups of cultures around the world
that became a permanent exhibition at the museum entitled "Hall of the Races of Mankind".<br />
She started this project in 1930. She was very skilled at expressing the beauty of her subjects during their daily activities.<br />
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The museum also published a <i>Map of Mankind</i>,
featuring her sculptures in a border surrounding a map of the world
that was distributed widely with an informative, large-format booklet
that made Hoffman's sculptures very well known."<br />
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In 2016, fifty recently conserved sculptures from the <i>Mankind</i>
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J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-55250310234598662802018-12-31T12:52:00.000-04:002019-04-05T09:02:45.082-04:00Two men in a Paris cemetery - Auguste MaillardThese two naked men, located in a prominent cemetery in Paris, and sculpted in stone, are a mystery. They were created by Auguste Maillard, famous French sculptor who died in 1944, but we could not find any information about it (except that it was given after his death), unlike others sculptures from him, well documented.<br />
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We initially discovered the existence of this sculpture, years ago and not knowing where it was, through the French photographer <a href="https://paulmarguerite.com/" target="_blank">Paul Marguerite</a>. Then, only knowing the town (which has two cemeteries), looking at the other pictures we determined which of the two it was, and went a few days ago, where we could take the pictures of this post. So it is located in the 'New' cemetery of Neuilly, actually on the areas of Puteaux/Nanterre, built around 1884.<br />
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Auguste Maillard was born in 1864, he studied sculpture with Alexandre Falguière, at the Paris Fine Arts school. Numerous busts and monuments from him are disseminated in France. In public places, cemeteries. He died accidentally during the 'Libération' or end of the last war, in August 1944, having received a lost bullet in front of his house, in Neuilly.<br />
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During the World Exhibition held in Paris in 1900, he received an award for his 'Icarus fall'<br />
marble sculpture, which unfortunately disappeared mysteriously during a transfer for being 'renovated', in 2005.<br />
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<b>Sources</b><br />
<a href="https://paulmarguerite.com/" target="_blank">Paul Marguerite</a><br />
<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Maillard" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><br />
<a href="https://www.djazairess.com/fr/horizons/158609" target="_blank">Article sur La Chute d'Icare</a><br />
<a href="http://www.delcampe.net/" target="_blank">Delcampe</a>J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-87230539426441833602018-11-22T05:50:00.001-04:002018-11-22T05:50:44.358-04:00Your Daily Male 2019 calendar : selection of male sculptures The Groningen-based Galerie Mooiman, specialized in male art, and already mentioned in this blog (see <a href="http://gay-sculpture.blogspot.com/2014/03/male-figurative-art-gallery-mooiman.html" target="_blank">here</a>), just released his Daily Male 2019 calendar filled with artworks from 52 artists, and this time with 7 sculptors among them. All these artists concentrate their work on the male (nude) beauty and body. I am honored to be part of this group.<br />
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This Dutch art gallery is among the very few in Europe specializing in gay artists, editing books about some of these artists, organizing unique exhibitions (like the current one about the <a href="http://www.mooi-man.nl/Tolomelli_Diego_06.html" target="_blank">Diego Tolomelli stained-glass</a> & playing cards project), and promoting gay male art in general.<br />
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Here are some works of 6 of these sculptors : Ivo Blanck, Dennis Coenraad, Antoine Timmermans, OK van Botenburg, Marcel Julius Joosen and Keith King.<br />
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Ivo Blanck<br />
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Dennis Coenraad<br />
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Antoine Timmermans<br />
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OK van Batenburg<br />
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Marcel Julius Joosen<br />
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<a href="http://www.mooi-man.nl/index.html" target="_blank">Galerie Mooi-Man Male art gallery</a><br />
<a href="https://www.advocate.com/art/2018/11/17/54-samples-best-gay-art-calendar-world?fbclid=IwAR2UnI2fMW1U4-BmQe_c8N6K_R8AT-vS-Sco0OVxGkUyTPtUYVl5p75U8ko#slide-2" target="_blank">The Advocate magazine : 54 samples of the calendar</a><br />
<a href="http://www.eroticstainedglass.com/about/" target="_blank">Diego Tolomelli erotic stained glass</a><br />
<a href="http://gay-sculpture.com/en/" target="_blank">Gay-Sculptures by Jean-Christophe </a><br />
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<br />J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-7667984810677967382018-10-27T05:05:00.000-04:002018-10-27T05:05:00.375-04:00Petit Sablon in BrusselsThe Petit Sablon square in Brussels, charming public park created by the architect Henri Beyaert around 1880, is circled by 48 bronze statues illustrating the various 'corporations' or 'professions' of Brussels at that era. Each has his own distinct piedestal, and a delicate iron gate is joining all of them.<br />
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Inside the park, in addition to a basin with waterfall, you can admire larger statues of key Dutch Renaissance characters such as Mercator, surrounding the Egmont and Hornes counts. All these were sculpted by the most famous Belgian sculptors of the 19 century, like Jef Lambeaux, and was inaugurated by the same mayor we talked in the last post, Charles Buls.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ebru.be/monuments/statue-bruxelles-1000-petit-sablon-corporations-professionnelles.html" target="_blank">More photos of the iron gate and grids</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ecoles.cfwb.be/argattidegamond/Bo%C3%AEte%20%C3%A0%20outils/Bruxelles/Petit%20Sablon.htm" target="_blank">Detailed description of each sculpture (in French)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.beliris.be/files/files/Projets/Petit-Sablon/Sablon-web-fr.pdf" target="_blank">History of the park with old pictures and the detailed restauration </a><br />
<br />J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-56646430087352047002018-09-29T10:27:00.000-04:002018-09-29T10:27:17.605-04:00Male sculptures in Brussels (2)Today you will discover another selection of some male sculptures seen in Brussels these days, either outside in parks, botanical garden, streets and places, or inside the Royal Palace.<br />
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First, the Botanical Gardens, where 52 sculptures were commissioned when it was created in 1826. Two majors sculptors, Constantin Meunier and Charles van der Stappen, leaded the overall design, with the help of numerous Belgian sculptors, around the theme of vegetals, but also animals, and working people. Here is the 'Laurier' (Laurel) made by Julien Dillens.<br />
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On the square 'Vergote' where several Art Deco houses are present, there is this monument sculpted by Charles Samuel, called the 'Monument au Génie', in memory of the last wars (1914-1918 and 1940-1945).<br />
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The "Palais des Académies" which today is the Royal Academy of Sciences, helds several sculptures around his classical building, which at the beginning used to be the house of the Prince of Orange, a few years before the creation of the Belgian nation.<br />
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The next door Royal Palace has a beautiful, although anonymous, marble sculpture of a Bacchus in the main entrance hall.<br />
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In the Cinquantenaire park, where the Art & History Museum is located, there is the 'Pavillion Horta' built specifically to protect the extremely large and imposing 'bas-relief' sculpture made by Jeff Lambeaux, called 'The Human Passions'.<br />
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Another Art Nouveau 'bas-relief' is visible on the Town Hall, offered in 1899 by a group of artists to thank Charles Buls, Brussels mayor (Bourgmestre) during almost 20 years, from 1881 to 1899, who actively supported the arts in Brussels and ensured many historical places were kept and maintained.<br />
Designed by the architect Victor Horta, and the sculptor Victor Rousseau, it represents a nude young man holding an oil lamp, you can see also other interesting details.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Human_Passions" target="_blank">Human Passions</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_Garden_of_Brussels" target="_blank">Botanical Gardens</a>J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-6423231082724139322018-08-29T05:18:00.000-04:002018-08-29T10:21:25.732-04:00Male sculptures in Brussels (1)Brussels, and Belgium, was and still is home of plenty artists, since centuries. Here is a first selection of male sculptures you can see in parks, museums, cemeteries, not covered previously in this blog like, for example, those from <a href="http://gay-sculpture.blogspot.com/2014/03/george-minne-and-his-kneeling-youths-1.html" target="_blank">George Minne</a>, or <a href="http://gay-sculpture.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-geefs-brothers-and-evil-genius.html" target="_blank">Guillaume Geefs</a>.<br />
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Charles Van der Stappen (1843-1910), famous Belgian sculptor, is the author of this Young man with sword (Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels). He also achieved his version of David, below.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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Roger Vene sculpted this 'Thinker' located in the Ixelles cemetery, near the main entrance.<br />
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In the same cemetery, another male sculpture, from Eugène de Bremaecker (1879-1963).<br />
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In the Palais des Nations, where the 'Parlement Fédéral' is located, there is a sculpture I like, discreetly visible between two corridors, made by Paul Du Bois (the Belgian sculptor, as there is a French one with similar name), and representing the young Prince Leopold.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kikirpa.be/" target="_blank">Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage</a><br />
<a href="http://sculpturepublique.be/" target="_blank">Sculpture Publique en Belgique</a> This website is a fantastic work compiling almost all public sculptures in Belgium, by artist or by location.J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-377475140648015102018-07-27T12:21:00.000-04:002018-07-27T12:21:24.204-04:00Millesgarden in StockholmFacing Stokholm, the island of Lidingo holds the studio, house and garden of Carl Milles (1875-1955), Swedish sculptor. His naked and playful youth in fountains caused controversy in America. His work includes mythological figures, angels, young men, Swedish history characters as well.<br />
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He loved to place his sculptures high in the air, on top of columns, or with discreet metal bars, so they look floating or flying in the air. Some of his sculptures are located in various places in Stockholm, although most are in Millesgarden, or in USA.<br />
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Millesgarden, name given today to the plot of land that Carl Milles purchased in 1906, is a beautiful setting, which took several decades to be achieved, between the house, the studio, the loggia, the various fountains, terraces, and gardens. It can remind Italy's Mediterranean coast.<br />
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One of these fountains is the Aganippe fountain (1955), filled with muses (Carl Milles replaced them by young men) symbolizing arts and sciences: sculpture with a mini-Pegasus statue, painting with flowers, and music with a saxophone.<br />
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Carl Milles liked to place architectural elements in his garden, and he often acquired or gathered columns, marble archs, from demolished palaces, or hotels, etc. to place them at the entrance of stairs between 2 levels of terraces, or to support a sculpture.<br />
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One example of this is the 'Wings' sculpture (1908), (actually I would call it Ganymède, the myth that inspired the sculptor, with Zeus disguised as an eagle abducting the beautiful young man) which is located on top of a column that originates from the King Gustav III Opera House, demolished in 1891. A copy of that sculpture is also visible on a Stockholm bridge.<br />
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The lower terrace, overlooking the water, is a really large space, displaying superb sculptures, and initially planned to contain a swimming pool, meeting places, ice and skate rinks, waterfall etc. But these elements were not achieved, except the waterfall.<br />
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He sculpted many angels, like the Angel Musicians, and the Ice skating angels.<br />
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Another example of sculpture high on a column is the man and Pegasus (1949). The flying horse with the child of Poseidon.<br />
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Talking about Poseidon, Milles sculpted this one, 7 meters high, standing naked (1930), holding a fish, and a shell. His hat is a shell, and his hait is composed of mussels. His face is quite unique.<br />
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Another naked sculpture, the astronomer, looking towards the sky. His hands hold a compass (tool of the sculptor) and a sphere (actually a dodecahedron, a 12-sided volume, tool linked to space). This aims to illustrate the interest of Carl Milles for the life and human condition, as he started to study astronomy very young with his father, then purchased a telescope. His house contains also a tower used as an observatory.<br />
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Here is another example of sculpture, located high in the sky, on top of a column : the hand of God (1940).<br />
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Carl Milles went to Paris when he was 22, studied the Fine Arts there and met Rodin. In 1903, then aged 48, he travelled to Holland, and to Belgium where he met the sculptor Constantin Meunier, who, at his surprise, had similar sculpting preferences.<br />
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J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-40002835846660880402018-06-29T07:30:00.000-04:002018-06-29T07:52:12.370-04:00Gustav Vigeland sculpture park in OsloIn the center of Oslo, Norway, the Vigeland sculpture park exhibits more than 200 impressive nude sculptures, in bronze and granite, as well as wrought iron, made by Gustav Vigeland. Among his preferred themes, the male body, the family, the dragon, the death.<br />
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I was lucky to visit this park in May 2018, and therefore am very pleased to share some pictures and information about the key elements and sculptures in this park. Several distinct areas are filled with sculptures, like the bridge, 100 m long, with 58 bronze sculptures, representing human relationships.<br />
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Or the gigantic fountain, supported by several men, which express the link between humanity and nature. I also liked the other sculptures, humans almost inside trees, all around the fountain.<br />
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The Monolith was modelled by Vigeland, who let stone carvers achieving the sculpture, which took 10 years. The design includes over 100 characters, and is close to 15 meters high. All around the monolith, are other granite sculptures, 36 in total, a very impressive group of man, women, children in various situations.<br />
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Several magnificent gates in wrought iron welcome the visitors, as well as other metal sculptures like the sundial, visible either in the park, or inside his museum.<br />
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The 'Wheel of life' : as mentioned in the Vigeland park website (see the link in 'Sources' at the end of this post) this sculpture sums up the dramatic theme of the entire park: Man's journey from cradle to grave, through happiness and grief, through fantasy, hope and wishes of eternity'.<br />
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The nearby Vigeland museum holds maquettes of his projects, as well as his plaster models. Indeed he often designed and modelled his idea in plaster, before asking stone carvers to realize his projects.<br />
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Gustav Vigeland, born in 1869, had a schildhood surrounded with craft among his family, and went to Oslo to learn woordcarving. Later, he decided he wanted to be a sculptor, and, once aged 22, travelled to Paris, where he attended sculpture classes in Rodin workshop, went also to Florence, Copenhagen and Berlin.<br />
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He also worked for the restoration of the famous Nidaros catheral, in the previous Norwegian capital, Trondheim. He probably adopted one of his themes, the dragon, at that time, being in close contact with medieval art.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Vigeland" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vigeland.museum.no/en/vigeland-park" target="_blank">Vigeland.museum</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyTiyG_rDo0" target="_blank">Video 1</a> - by Gay Travellers magazine<br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/65900073" target="_blank">Video 2 - by Vigeland museum</a>J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-83008667028856418762018-05-26T09:30:00.000-04:002018-05-26T09:30:15.878-04:00Hendrik Christian Andersen Hendrik Christian Andersen is a Norwegian/American sculptor, who often depicts muscular characters, and naked males. He got additional fame with his loving relationship with the American writer Henry James.<br />
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The love letters that he received from the novellist have been published and testify their beautiful love. He met him in 1899, when aged 27. A loving relationship which will only end when Henry James died in 1916.<br />
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Hendrik Christian childhood was spent in Rhode island, as a young immigrant who arrived with his parents. He then moved to Rome at the age of 21. He was convinced that art is one of the best way to inspire perfection, peace and harmony among people, and he sculpted and draw projects with that in mind. He was also a writer and urban planner.<br />
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Andersen died in Rome in 1940.<br />
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The museum in Rome is actually his previous beautiful home, the Palazzo Mancini, containing his work (close to 400 art pieces). The museum also displays maps, maquettes and planned sculptures for his dream : a 'World Arts city' he imagined for a Greek island with his friend and partner, the poet and aviator Guido Keller. But the project was stopped when Keller died in 1929. Other sources mention the 'World Communication Center', focussed on art, science and sports, to be possibly located in Belgium or Swizerland. Some say it was to be built in the South of Rome. The mystery remains...<br />
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<a href="http://skeivtarkiv.no/en/skeivopedia/hendrik-christian-andersen">http://skeivtarkiv.no/en/skeivopedia/hendrik-christian-andersen</a><br />
<a href="http://www.turismoroma.it/cosa-fare/casa-museo-hendrik-andersen?lang=fr" target="_blank">www.turismoroma.it</a><br />
<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/73776/the-picture-excesses">https://newrepublic.com/article/73776/the-picture-excesses</a><br />
<a href="http://www.italianways.com/the-hendrik-christian-andersen-house-museum-in-rome/">http://www.italianways.com/the-hendrik-christian-andersen-house-museum-in-rome/</a><br />
<a href="http://rictornorton.co.uk/jameshen.htm">http://rictornorton.co.uk/jameshen.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.leylandpublications.com/exc_mydearboy.html">http://www.leylandpublications.com/exc_mydearboy.html</a><br />
<a href="https://www.untoldhistorytour.com/tour/hendrik-christian-andersen-museum/">https://www.untoldhistorytour.com/tour/hendrik-christian-andersen-museum/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.untoldhistorytour.com/obsession-hendrik-christian-andersen-love-henry-james/">https://www.untoldhistorytour.com/obsession-hendrik-christian-andersen-love-henry-james/</a><br />
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Like this naked youths group sculpture below, dated 1st century AD which was found in Rome, and recorded in the Ludovisi collection. It then went into the collection of the Queen Christina of Sweden, then kept until 1839 in a Spanish palace (San Ildefonso) before to be displayed in the Prado Museum in Madrid.<br />
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Opposing each other in several aspects, they formed the Gemini (Twins, in Latin) constellation. The myth of Castor & Pollux is more complex, I suggest you read some of the Sources.<br />
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A dozen sculpture copies have been done in marble, bronze or even cast iron, by various sculptors, in Germany, UK, France, either identical, using cast from plaster, or sometimes in different size, or even giving themselves some freedom from the original. See the list in the Wikipedia source.<br />
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The French copy, seen below, was achieved, after almost 25 years of work, by the sculptor Antoine Coysevox, visible since 1712 in the Château de Versailles, near Paris.<br />
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The UK marble copy was sculpted in 1767 by Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823), who went to Rome and may have seen the plaster copy kept at the French Academy there. The sculpture is located in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.<br />
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In Germany, a bronze copy is in Berlin, Charlottenburg, cated by Christoph Heinrich Fischer in 1833.<br />
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Still in Germany, Goethe ordered a plaster cast for his house in 1812, and in a letter he sent to a friend, mentioned that 'These two ephebs have always been most pleasing to me'.<br />
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And more recently, in 1995, a wonderful sculpted glass by Wolfram Ames has taken place among the private collection of Othmar Rahm in Bonn.<br />
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The Rameau opera Castor & Pollux, in his edition of Harmonia Mundi / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie is here illustrated with the Poussin drawing of 1628 made with pen and brown wash.<br />
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<b>Sources</b><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux_(Prado)" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><br />
<a href="http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biop3/pollux01.html" target="_blank">Andrej Koymaski website</a><br />
<a href="http://collections.chateauversailles.fr/#6b7dd99d-3b20-4487-a5f3-e4f73c675efd" target="_blank">Château de Versailles</a><br />
<a href="http://www.antinoos.info/copies4.htm" target="_blank">Antinoos info</a>J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-34224167004956296292018-03-15T15:09:00.002-04:002018-03-15T17:50:58.961-04:00The Geefs brothers and the Evil Genius & Angel of Evil.<br />
The Belgian cathedral 'St Paul' located in Liège is the home of a beautiful young man sculpted in white marble by Guillaume Geefs in 1848.<br />
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The sculpture was actually commissionned first to his brother Joseph (1808-1885), also a sculptor. He was asked to create a Lucifer, or Evil Genius. When the statue was set up in the cathedral, in 1843, the male body was judged very, very attractive, probably too much naked and not enough 'Evil' despite the snake near his feet and the bat wings. See by yourself below.<br />
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So 5 years later, his brother Guillaume got the commission for another Lucifer. Joseph's one was removed after one year from the cathedral, and is currently visible in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, in Brussels. Below is the new version of Lucifer, sculpted by Guillaume Geefs.<br />
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To avoid the critics made to his brother, he emphasized the symbols of Lucifer, although the nudity is still very much present, with a slightly more muscular body. Guillaume Geefs (1805-1883) was the main sculptor working for Leopold I, selected king for the Belgium nation founded in 1830.<br />
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J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-24807637507874257372018-02-01T10:45:00.000-04:002018-02-02T12:35:16.096-04:00The male sculptures of Bordeaux Girondins monument & fountainsThe Girondins monument and double fountain in the center of Bordeaux (Quinconces) is filled with 34 bronze sculptures. You will discover here some of the male characters of this famous landmark, built between 1894 and 1902, and full of Republican symbols, by the architect Victor Rich, and the sculptors Alphonse Jean Dumilatre and Felix Charpentier.<br />
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The monument is dedicated to the 'Girondins' who died defending the Republican values, after the French Revolution, against the 'Montagnards'. For more details on the project history and context, see the links indicated at the end.<br />
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The fountain facing the Theatre shows the Republican victory. Among the figures, this blacksmith, looking toward the justice, and symbol of Work.<br />
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Next to him, two groups of three kids, one symbolizing the compulsory school, and the others the mandatory military service.<br />
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Below, three male figures seem falling, they are the Ignorance (on the right), the Vice (center) and the Lie (on the left, with his mask), showing the obstacles for a society that want to enlighten his people, promoting education and knowledge.<br />
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On the other side, the fountain facing the gardens, called the 'Triomphe de la Concorde' (Peace victory) you can admire the Fraternity, illustrated by the company of a worker and a bourgeois, and other sculptures displaying happiness, and several kids (one with a sculptor hammer, one with a music instrument, one with a painting brush, another on a barrel, ...).<br />
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<br />J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-90024928646736926122017-12-24T12:40:00.001-04:002017-12-24T12:40:23.067-04:00Rene Lalique : archers & male athletesRene Lalique is a famous French glass designer, and jewellery designer. Several pieces are glass sculptures depicting male figures, on vases, doors, medallions, perfume bottles, and radiator caps for cars.<br />
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His exquisite jewellery was very much influenced by the the nature, fauna and flora, in the Art Nouveau style, like birds, insects like Dragonfly. He worked for Cartier and Boucheron. Later on, after the first war, he produced magnificent Art Deco large glass decoration, like for the Normandie luxury yacht (first class dining room), or the Orient Express train.<br />
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Athletes was one of his theme, as you can see on this 'Palestre' vase below done in 1928. In the biography from Félix Marcilhak (book cover on this post) you can read that Lalique wanted to express the beauty of these males, but also in the spirit of the Greeks, show their courage and wisdow.<br />
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He also created glass doors with athletes for the French clothes designer Jacques Doucet home in Paris.<br />
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And for the Wanamaker's store in Philadephia.<br />
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His passion was the glass. And to create beauty. Always with the highest quality. He had a workshop Place Vendome in Paris, created many glass objects for hospitals & drugstores (through a glass factory he transformed). He built his own glass factory in 1921 in Alsace (where the current Lalique Museum is located). This allowed him to distribute his creations to a larger audience, making them more affordable. He invented several techniques and process to work with glass, giving different finishes, or transparencies.<br />
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And linked to the athletes, you can admire a few pieces with archers as well, like on this radiator cap below from 1926.<br />
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Or on this vase from 1921, that was declined in several versions or colors, with archers looking for large birds.<br />
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For the International Exhibition in Paris, in 1937, with 44 countries participating, he created this medallion in glass, displaying 2 nude males holding their hands.<br />
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The year he died (1945) and was buried in the Paris Père Lachaise cemetery, his son started to work with cristal.<br />
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And it is with cristal that the Elton John Aids Foundation and Lalique worked together to raise funds, creating first a large lost wax original glass sculpture 'Angel' and some other pieces to be sold at a special auction in 2016, before to produce a limited serie available today.<br />
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<br />J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-90079604776883771662017-10-24T15:45:00.000-04:002017-10-24T17:18:55.532-04:00Chronos - Christophe Charbonnel Yesterday, October 23, the bronze sculpture from Christophe Charbonnel named 'Chronos' was auctioned at Rennes Enchères (Me Jezequel).<br />
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The sculpture is numbered 2/4, was casted in 2006, and measure 108 x 24 x 30 cm.<br />
The auction result is 23.400 euros.<br />
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Two other originals can be seen at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, and at the Terre Blanche Hotel Spa Resort.</div>
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We have previously posted other sculptures from this talented French sculptor. You can see it <a href="http://gay-sculpture.blogspot.com/2015/06/christophe-charbonnel.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.rennesencheres.com/ventes/sculptures-art-contemporain/christophe-charbonnel-amp-lt-br-amp-gt-chronos-200-235700.html#lot" target="_blank">Rennes Enchères</a><br />
<a href="http://www.galeriebayart.fr/" target="_blank">Galerie Bayart</a>J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-910729306089870772017-08-09T09:58:00.002-04:002017-08-09T09:58:54.546-04:00David Wynne - The River God TyneThe Romans believed each river had a God, to protect the people living around. This bronze sculpture, fixed on the outside wall, was achieved in 1968 for the opening of the Civic Center in Newcastle (UK).<br />
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There is a fountain as well, coming from one hand. It represents one of the 8 rivers that used to be sculpted in 1786, on the Strand front of Somerset House in London.<br />
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David Wynne is a British sculptor, born in 1926, who died 3 years ago, in 2014, who sculpted many portraits, figures and animals, like dolphins and large birds. He used to serve in the Navy, and had a keen interest in Zoology.<br />
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<b>Sources</b><br />
<a href="https://newcastlecollection.newcastle.gov.uk/tyne-god" target="_blank">Newcastle collection</a><br />
<a href="http://www.seenewcastle.com/public-art/river-god-tyne-david-wynne-1968/" target="_blank">See Newcastle</a><br />
<a href="http://www.millercreation.com/gallery/david-wynne" target="_blank">Miller creation</a><br />
<a href="https://alchetron.com/David-Wynne-(sculptor)-995739-W" target="_blank">List of works by David Wynne</a><br />
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This nude bronze was casted in Milan, Italy (Battaglia foundry), and has an impressive height of 6.7 meters. It is the main statue of the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer also called Omaha beach, in Normandy.<br />
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The sculptor is Donald Harcourt De Lue, born in Boston in 1897 and known for numerous monuments. He studied arts in Boston, then in Paris for five years. He teached at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York around 1940. He died in 1988 in New Jersey. We may come back to this American sculptor's general work in another post.<br />
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Two copies exist, one half-size is in the courtyard, outside the First Infantry Division Museum, Cantigny Park, Wheaton near Chicago.<br />
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And another one in a Mall in Glensdale, 18 feet high, covered with gold-leaf.<br />
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<b>Sources</b><br />
Wikipedia<br />
<a href="https://travelfranceonline.com/colleville-sur-mer-american-cemetery-wwii/">Colleville-sur-mer American cemetery wwii</a><br />
<a href="http://www.dday0606.org/abmdoc-booklet-orig-enhanced.pdf">Booklet about the Memorial</a>J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-66039305501683271602017-06-25T09:56:00.003-04:002017-06-25T09:56:30.690-04:00Summer discoveries in France with Christophe CharbonnelIf you are in France this Summer, here are three opportunities, in various regions, to admire Christophe Charbonnel large sculptures usually representing male mythology heroes etc.<br />
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In Paris, at the <b>Mairie</b> (Townhall) <b>du 6ème</b>, until July 15.<br />
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In Brittany at the <b>Chateau des Pères</b>, near Rennes, at Piré-sur-Seiche, you will see 10 of his monumental sculptures, until September 25. The Chateau des Pères also offers you a magnificent park where you can stroll and admire 44 permanent large sculptures from 13 other artists.<br />
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And in the Southwest, by the sea, at the <b>Biarritz Hotel du Palais</b>, until October 30.<br />
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http://www.chateaudesperes.fr/la-collection-du-chateau/<br />
http://www.galeriebayart.fr/Art_Contemporain/1_art_contemporain_charbonnel_v4a.htmlJ-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-12963099663366777992017-05-24T10:30:00.000-04:002017-05-24T10:30:32.593-04:00Jerry Williams - The Balancing ActIn a context where gay rights are challenged in so many countries these days, today is a sculpture that was created in a similar context in a smaller town of the North West of USA, Springfield, in Oregon, during the mid 1990's by Jerry Williams. The sculpture is called 'The Balancing Act'. <br />
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Several anti-gays laws were passed by the City Council, allowing discrimination on the work place etc. (See Sources, under Oregon Citizens Alliance). Below are some quotes from the text he sent me.<br />
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''The Oregon Legislature however prohibited such legislation several months later'' said the sculptor, who added ''Simultaneously,
the city of Springfield was seeking a public work for the entrance to
its City Hall and Public Library. They did not specify the
subject of the public art that would occupy a plaza next to the
entrance stairway."<br />
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"My sculpture shown below won their art committee selection based on its whimsey of a gymnast doing a one handstand on the back of a Rhinoceros. The
gymnast depicted in the statue is a gay man. The rhinoceros emerging
out of the basalt is ignorance, short sightedness, and anger.The
owl perched on the toe of the gymnast is wisdom, and spirit. not
unlike the owl in the ancient Greek Parthenon sitting on the shoulder of Athena."<br />
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city of Springfield loves that sculpture, honoring it as the vector for
flowers after the massacre at Thurston High School in the late 90s. It
is a signature icon on Springfield Art Walk, and images of it printed on
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Paul Landowski, after a strong interest in philosophy and play writing, started his art studies & career. He took portrait drawing classes, became an anatomy and nude expert, going regularly to the School of Medicine to observe body dissections! He also had a passion for boxing.<br />
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His biography is very interesting, I suggest you check it in details (see Sources), to learn more about his various interests, his ambitious project 'Le Temple de l'Homme', his writings, his humanistic concerns, his prizes and honors he got already at a young age, etc. You can also see his numerous sculptures done in many countries and continents (China, Brasil, ...). He died at 85, in his house, in March 1961.<br />
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We will post some of his sculptures in this blog. Today is the large bronze group called the Sons of Cain, achieved in 1906. Located in Paris, currently visible at the Jardins des Tuileries. He was inspired by a trip to Tunisia done in 1903, during which he saw three young tunisians marching together, like brothers.<br />
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On the left is the sheperd, Jabel, who looks toward the horizon, in the middle is the poet, Jubal, playing on his harp made of a bull head crane, and on the right is Tubal Cain, the blacksmith who protects the fire with his hand. According to the sculptor (see his Journal), it represents the various strengths : physical, thinking, and working.<br />
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Sources<br />
<a href="http://www.paul-landowski.com/en/fils-de-cain/" target="_blank">Paul Landowski</a><br />
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<a href="http://journal.paul-landowski.com/" target="_blank">Paul Landowski Journal</a><br />
<br />J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-21559399216045500652017-04-12T09:00:00.000-04:002017-04-12T15:51:44.360-04:00Julien-Edouard de Conny - La Charité FraternelleThe famous work presented today is from the French sculptor
Julien-Edouard de Conny, and is entitled 'La Charité Fraternelle' which
can be translated as Fraternal Charity.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conny - La Charité Fraternelle - 1865 - Photo Johan Dreo</td></tr>
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This sculptor, born in May 1818, initially planned to embrace a military career, at the St Cyr Army school, but left it after one year for refusing to do 'hazing' to new students, and disobeying to the Army General who was supervising the Army school. Which led him to spend one month in jail before quitting the army.<br />
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He then started sculpting, based in Paris,
with the sculptors Etex and Dantan. And travelled to Italy. His work
was noticed 20 years later, with this sculpture 'La Charité
Fraternelle', initially done in plaster. Four years later, in 1865, he
sculpted it in marble. The
French government purchased it, and installed it in the Jardin des
Tuileries. But it was moved later to the Chateau de Rambouillet, and
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Julien Edouard de Conny died in January 1900. <br />
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<b>Sources</b><br />
Wikipedia<br />
Les Lettres blanches - Frédéric Tison <a href="http://leslettresblanches.hautetfort.com/">http://leslettresblanches.hautetfort.com</a><br />
Visit Chateau de Rambouillet - Andrew Hopkins blog<br />
<a href="http://andrewhopkinsart.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-visit-to-chateau-de-rambouillet.html">http://andrewhopkinsart.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-visit-to-chateau-de-rambouillet.html</a>J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-75417535588911743042017-03-17T09:32:00.000-04:002017-04-12T16:24:58.903-04:00To Honor SurfingThis month's post is a contemporary sculpture, a male surfer, large 18-foot bronze sculpture located in California, at Lighthouse Point, near the Santa Cruz surfing Museum. It was installed almost 25 years ago, in May 1992, with the title 'To Honor Surfing'.<br />
The surfer sculpture was made by Tom Marsh, and the base by Brian
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The plaque at the base indicates : <br />
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<span class="image_frame image_frame_border"><span class="image_caption" style="width: 400px;">"This monument is dedicated to all surfers - past, present, and future. The inspiration came from members of the <a class="missing_link" href="https://localwiki.org/santacruz/Santa_Cruz_Surfing_Club">Santa Cruz Surfing Club</a>,
founded in 1936. The fulfillment of this dream was the work of
numerous citizens who recognize the significance of surfing within our
community. Santa Cruz Museum Association - Surfing Sculpture Committee -
1992" </span></span><br />
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<span class="image_frame image_frame_border"><span class="image_caption" style="width: 400px;">He ends his article with this : 'In 1992, based on an inspiration of some of the original club
members, a surfing sculpture monument was erected on West Cliff
Drive at Pelton Avenue. It is dedicated to all surfers, past,
present, and future.'</span></span><br />
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<span class="image_frame image_frame_border"><span class="image_caption" style="width: 400px;">I discovered this sculpture thanks to the picture below published last month in the blog<a href="http://lesdiagonalesdutemps.over-blog.com/2017/02/to-honor-surfing-par-chris-hunkeler.html" target="_blank"> Les Diagonales du Temps</a>. </span></span><br />
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<b>Sources :</b><br />
Brian Curtis <a href="http://briancurtisantiques.com/about-brian-curtis/" target="_blank">website </a><br />
Thomas Marsh <a href="http://thomasmarshsculptor.net/sculptures.html" target="_blank">website </a><br />
San Francisco Gate <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Surfing-historical-sites-in-Santa-Cruz-5687175.php" target="_blank">article</a><br />
Santa Cruz <a href="http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/276/" target="_blank">history</a><br />
J-Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122257131674384206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000184063260426215.post-43058389770322542982017-02-24T21:29:00.000-04:002017-03-03T13:01:22.756-04:00William Hamo Thornycroft<br />
Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, usually called 'Hamo Thornycroft', is also a British sculptor (see the last post about Sir Ian Rank-Broadley), born in London in 1850, who sculpted a significant amount of beautiful large male sculptures.<br />
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He sculpted many statues visible in London, and was one of the youngest members of the Royal Academy (elected in 1882), maybe because of his strong sculpting family heritage : his father, mother, and grand father were also sculptors.<br />
At the Academy, he was influenced by the painter and sculptor Lord Frederic Leighton, already mentioned<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"> in this blog</a>, about Icarus, and also for his 'Sluggard' sculpture.<br />
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Thornycroft won the gold medal of the Royal Academy in 1876, with his sculpture 'Warrior bearing a Wounded Youth' that you can see here :<br />
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Edmund Gosse, a critic, and very, very, good friend of Thornycroft (he wrote him several love letters) invented the term 'New Sculpture' and considered that Thornycroft was a pioneer in this movement. See the article about the Gay Love Letters in the sources at the end of this post.<br />
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Among his known sculptures, there is the Teucer (one sculpted in plaster in 1881, then in bronze in 1882).<br />
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And also the Mower, a controversial sculpture when it was presented as the subject is a laborer. Done in plaster in 1884, then bronze in 1894. This one is visible in Liverpool, and Philip C., one of our readers from Liverpool, was kind to send me the link (see Sources) for the Liverpool Museum where an interesting text about this sculpture is presented.<br />
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After that sculpture, his work received a considerable reputation, and he got several commissions. He was
knighted in 1917. If you walk in Merlbury road in London, you can see the blue plaque which mentions the location of his studio.<br />
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<b>Sources</b><br />
<a href="http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.aspx?id=361" target="_blank">Liverpool Museum</a><br />
<a href="http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1208265032" target="_blank">Curator Interview about a sculpture of Thornycroft and the New Sculpture Movement</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/william-hamo-thornycroft/13877" target="_blank">Leicester Galleries</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_biography.php?sub=thornycroft_wh" target="_blank">Glasgow sculpture - Hornycroft Biography </a><br />
<a href="http://rictornorton.co.uk/gosse.htm" target="_blank">The Gay Love Letters of Edmund Gosse to Hamo Thornycroft</a><br />
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