Tag: sculpture

Fancy Meeting Me Here.

Divers exploring the submerged ruins near Alexandria, Egypt, have recently captured stunning photographs of a Greek statue from the ancient city of Heracleion, also known as Thonis.

[Image found here, story here.]

Sliced Caravelle

CARBON COPY is a sculpture by Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett, installed in the Brewery District of Edmonton, Canada, in 2018. The lights of the 1988 Plymouth Caravelle glow, and a laser in the front seat scans the pavement every 20 seconds.

“CARBON COPY transforms an unremarkable suburban car into an illuminated obelisk, a monument to North America’s car-centric culture.”

[Found via here and here.]

Liberty [updated]

[Update: Image is NOT Isabella Eugénie Boyer; see below.]

The face of the Statue of Liberty. Isabella Boyer’s life is like an exciting novel. She was born in Paris, the daughter of an African pastry chef and an English mother. Isabella had a special beauty and, at age 20, she married Isaac Singer, the sewing machine maker, who was 50 years old. After Singer’s death, Isabella became the richest woman in the country. It is not surprising that she was chosen as the model for the Statue of Liberty, as she embodied the American dream. Widowed, Isabella traveled the world and married the Dutch violinist Victor Robstett, becoming a countess. He became a prominent figure in America and Europe, and met the French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi at a world event. Bartholdi, impressed by her beauty and history, used her face as a model for the Statue of Liberty. Isabella married a third time and died in Paris in 1904 at age 62, but her face lives on in the iconic statue in New York, symbolizing freedom and American pride.

[Found here, h/t Eaglesoars]

UPDATE: The top image appears to be the work of Bas Uterwijk and is an A.I. generated image of Aphrodite, not Isabella Eugénie Boyer (who may or may not have been the model for the Statue of Liberty).

Isabella Eugénie Boyer (1841-1904)
More about the viral photo here, here and here.
[h/t Gabriel]

All Grown Up.

[h/t Pam M.]

The Animorphs of めーちっさい

[Figurines by Japanese sculptor めーちっさい (or Mechissai, Mecchisae, Meetissai, translates to Very Small) found here. He’s also got a book. h/t Pam M.]

Blobby McBlobface

[Found in here.]

Antony Gormley’s Contribution To The World: 40K+ Clay Peeps

“By Antony Gormley, just some of the 40,000 clay figures from part of the ’Field for the British Isles’  on loan from Arts Council Collection, it’s being shown in three of the National Trust’s Barrington Court rooms currently in Ilminster, England.”

[Installation circa 1991 found here.]

Banksy’s Spraycation

[Spraycation Model Village found buried in here, unknown media, date.]

Homunculus Loxodontus

Homunculus Loxodontus is also known as Zhdun, “The One Who Waits”, Snorp, Wosh and Ждун.

The Leiden University Medical Center originally awarded artist Margriet Van Brevoort a grant to create the sculpture for an annual art competition held by the Leiden Sculpture Foundation, where the sculptural theme for 2016 competition was biological sciences. Brevoort did not want to depict something related to the grim side of medicine or disease, and instead focused on the patients, ordinary people waiting to see a doctor for a diagnosis. According to her, the sculpture meant to convey the message that “you should calmly wait for diagnosis with hope for the best”.

[Images found here, caption from here.]

Avian Metal

Artist Turns Discarded Silverware and Scrap Metal Into Striking Animal Sculptures

[Found here.]