Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register )










Reply to this topicStart new topicStart Poll

> Favorite Sculptures
MDF3530 
  Posted: 08-Feb-2006, 04:26 PM
Quote Post

Member is Offline



Celtic Guardian
********

Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 7,290
Joined: 30-Jul-2002
ZodiacWillow

Realm: Midlothian, IL

male





What are your favorite sculptures?

Here's a pic of mine. It was a gift to the City of Chicago by Pablo Picasso. It is the only one of his works I like. It is unnamed, but us locals call it "Da Picasso" biggrin.gif ...

user posted image


--------------------
Mike F.

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.


user posted image
PMEmail PosterMy Photo Album               
Top
Siobhan Blues 
Posted: 14-Mar-2006, 08:55 AM
Quote Post

Member is Offline



Celtic Guardian
********

Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 1,127
Joined: 25-Nov-2003
ZodiacAsh


female





I think my favorite sculptor of all time is Alexander Calder! There was a huge exhibit of his work in Atlanta back during the 80's when I was in college when I was just realizing that my future was as an artist. I went to see the Calder exhibit as a class assignment but was absolutely blown away when I actually got there: enormous mobiles created from metal but that moved at the slightest touch or breeze, they just overwhelmed me. They were so whimsical, so happy, their colors and shapes just spoke to me somehow of joy. And the icing on this experience was a circus created of wire, bent into the shapes of lions and trapeze artists and clowns - it was the funniest, most charming thing I've seen before or since. To this budding artist, Calder taught me that art can be - heck, SHOULD be! - fun!!

Let me see if I can find a picture somewhere...


--------------------
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king..."
user posted image

SGGardner Art

www.SouthernShireFarm.com
PM               
Top
Siobhan Blues 
Posted: 14-Mar-2006, 09:04 AM
Quote Post

Member is Offline



Celtic Guardian
********

Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 1,127
Joined: 25-Nov-2003
ZodiacAsh


female





Here's Calder with one of his mobiles.... (you look at this man's face and tell me he wasn't having fun!!)

Attached Image. (Click thumbnail to expand)
Attached Image (Works with IE Only)
PM               
Top
John Clements 
Posted: 23-Mar-2006, 01:51 PM
Quote Post

Member is Offline



Celtic Guardian
********

Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 1,466
Joined: 26-Oct-2005
ZodiacElder


male





That makes two for Alexander Calder.


--------------------
We’re all poets, only some of us write it down. JC 9/27/08

Anyone who has the courage to disagree, deserves all do respect. JC 4/28/08

Life is a loosing battle, so you might as well live it up.
J.C. 3/29/08

Life should be like skiing, you have the most fun on the way down. J.C. 8/17/07

Take their word for it, and that’s just what you’ll get.
J.C. 3/19/07

Only the truth is worth the ultimate sacrifice.
J.C. 1/26/06

Compared to the far right, the far left is somewhere in the middle. J.C. 2/22/06

I’ll be the first to apologies, as long as I get one back.
J.C. 3/7/06

It’s a happy man, who can laugh at himself.

If you’re looking for a new experience, don’t hire someone with a lot of it. J.C. sometime in 1990
PMEmail Poster               
Top
stoirmeil 
Posted: 23-Mar-2006, 02:34 PM
Quote Post

Member is Offline



Celtic Guardian
********

Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 3,581
Joined: 07-Nov-2004
ZodiacBirch

Realm: New York







La Cathedrale, by Rodin:
http://www.trincoll.edu/zines/tj/tj4.18.96...nifer/rodin.gif

That theme of hands kind of fascinates me. I love the Escher drawing of the two hands drawing each other, too. smile.gif

And then there's the whole family of little paleolithic goddesses -- I guess this little gal (the Venus of Willendorf) might be the best known:

http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/smr04/1019...1910/Slide6.jpg

But the sculptures I love best are gargoyles, all kinds. The ones of Notre Dame are particular favorites:

http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~biolab/gargoyles/ND04.gif
PMEmail Poster               
Top
Siobhan Blues 
Posted: 29-Mar-2006, 09:41 AM
Quote Post

Member is Offline



Celtic Guardian
********

Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 1,127
Joined: 25-Nov-2003
ZodiacAsh


female





Oh those gargoyles at Notre Dame really ARE charmers!! I didn't get to see them up close when I visited Paris in 2001 but I hollered up at them from the ground "HI GUYS!" and thoroughly appalled my artsy companions. wink.gif One of the joys in life!

There are some fabulous gargoyles at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC too. If you take the rooftop tour of the chateau you get to go up to part of the roof itself and walk around on a narrow walkway & see the gargoyles up close. One of them has the cutest tush! Funny - and yes I did pat it because it was so cute.

Silly Siobhan
PM               
Top
crazykiltedcelt 
Posted: 01-Apr-2006, 08:31 AM
Quote Post

Member is Offline



LOCH MOY
Group Icon

Group: Scotland
Posts: 6,160
Joined: 16-Mar-2006
ZodiacHolly

Realm: utah

male





Korczak Ziolkowski kown most for his craving of Crazy Horse Mountian or may be so known but ether way he is agreat self artist in his own right he has many world known pieces.


--------------------
shout freedom and loose the legs of woe

A man in a kilt is a man & an halve
PMEmail Poster               
Top
stoirmeil 
Posted: 03-Apr-2006, 08:56 AM
Quote Post

Member is Offline



Celtic Guardian
********

Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 3,581
Joined: 07-Nov-2004
ZodiacBirch

Realm: New York







QUOTE (Siobhan Blues @ 29-Mar-2006, 10:41 AM)
Oh those gargoyles at Notre Dame really ARE charmers!!  I didn't get to see them up close when I visited Paris in 2001 but I hollered up at them from the ground "HI GUYS!" and thoroughly appalled my artsy companions.  wink.gif  One of the joys in life!


Gargoyles are the best. smile.gif I have one in the Notre Dame style, little small one 10" high, that sits on a shelf. He's a baby that sucks his thumb, and one of his batwings is curled around himself like he's looking for comfort. Nobody loves a cold stone baby.

http://www.gargoylestore.com/048_baby_gargoyle_out.jpg

I've tried to draw him a few times, from different angles, and he's been extremely patient with that I must say, because I don't draw very well and I erase a lot. But he never complained.
PMEmail Poster               
Top
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:

Reply to this topic Quick ReplyStart new topicStart Poll


 








© Celtic Radio Network
Celtic Radio is a TorontoCast radio station that is based in Canada.
TorontoCast provides music license coverage through SOCAN.
All rights and trademarks reserved. Read our Privacy Policy.








[Home] [Top]