Sculpture

January 31, 2013

Tiny Man Precariously Balances an Elephant on His Back

The work of French artist Fabien Mrelle involves creative combinations of dreams, experiences, and his early childhood imagination. He blurs the line between reality and fiction and his bio states: “Following the unrolling of a dream, playing with the free association of shapes and ideas, he seems to say that everything is transforming, metamorphing, opening itself to the most diverse interpretations.

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March 14, 2012

Magnificent Giant Sculptures of Everyday Objects

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's collaborative creations of monumental sculptures make you look twice as they take ordinary objects and enlarge them. Oldenburg notes, “We feel free to use all the approaches that come naturally to our non-monumental works: variations in scale, similes, transformations, a wide range of materials, and, of course, our use of familiar objects.

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January 21, 2012

Young Tree Carved Inside Old Tree by Giuseppe Penone

“My artwork shows, with the language of sculpture, the essence of matter and tries to reveal with the work, the hidden life within.” – Giuseppe Penone What better way to appreciate nature and the wonders of life than with a simply amazing art sculpture like this?

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June 30, 2011

Riveting Story Behind that Striking Sculpture

Though Paige Bradley has a few “trademark” sculptures, the Internet came and fell in love with one particular one that's causing people from all over the world to see her art for the very first time. It's an incredibly beautiful sculpture of a naked woman with light bleeding out of her cracked body. How did this piece, called Expansion, come about? The sculptor just shared with us her fascinating and inspiring story.

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