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Who is your favorite modern sculptor ?

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PsyArch


Gosh, Harmarman,


OMG.

I mean WTF.

Those guys are right up there with Wildstyle Inc.

And just, BTW, do you believe in world domination?

Feb 6, 06 4:12 pm  · 
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skunst

But this 'sculpture 'in one of your links is very beautifull

Feb 6, 06 4:21 pm  · 
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skunst

haromino

maybe we both like thisone, not hat I am craving for that to happen
dutch sculptor peter van der Locht .

Feb 6, 06 4:32 pm  · 
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vado retro

we are concerned with the act of ordering rather than with order.

Feb 6, 06 7:03 pm  · 
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liberty bell

I'd like to order a pizza please.

Feb 6, 06 7:08 pm  · 
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vado retro

thazz becuz u r into the bazbeaux arts lb

Feb 6, 06 7:20 pm  · 
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snooker

modern sculpture can be like, " the sound of one hand clapping." It doesn't have to be a the expected, the understood, it can be just the experience. Sorry Hermie if you don't feel anything, but I do and it seems like alot of others do. It is sort of like a growing appreciation of Jazz or Blues along with an appreciation of Classical Music. Smell the roses and enjoy yourself.

Feb 6, 06 10:02 pm  · 
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levasser

Did anyone see the exhibition a few months back (August/September?) at the Guggenheim-- I believe the sculptor was Spanish or Portuguese, and rather architectural...? His pieces were incredibly moving.... um, but I can't recall his name.

Feb 6, 06 11:53 pm  · 
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also, daniel buren, inside (centre of guggenheim), 1 day installation @guggenheim 1971.


and, 2005. the rose window

Feb 7, 06 12:46 am  · 
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Pacific

i second turrell

Feb 7, 06 12:49 am  · 
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Nevermore

you guys are so cool

even I want to be an art critic

Feb 7, 06 12:49 am  · 
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Nevermore
Sorry Hermie if you don't feel anything, but I do and it seems like a lot of others do.

snooker , so you're the artistic,tortured genius who "feels" and Heimarmene is the ruthless real estate developer who drives over your sensitive sculptures in his/her limo ?

and this is coming from someone who posted the link for wild-style

great !

Feb 7, 06 4:05 am  · 
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babs

my goodness ... i've created a monster !

Feb 7, 06 10:57 am  · 
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Heimarmene

skunst> Today I listened to mozart messe in c minor part six , the largo (loud)

Have you experienced Beethoven's sorrow too?
http://www.markwashburn.com/recent.html


> And looked...
Then repeated for 10 times...
Try it then there is no need to use drugs any more

Nooooooo, Mozart alone should be enough!


> maybe we both like thisone, not hat I am craving for that to happen
dutch sculptor peter van der Locht .

Being and Power. Reminded me of Jim Morrison's line;
"No one thought up being; he who thinks he has Step forward."

Nice. His collections are quite totemic
[Fig. 4A2):
;]http://www.museoorigini.it/pagina58.html]; alluding to something peculiar to the Dutch psyche - I wont pretend to understand, but I can easily agree a native would possibly find it every evocative like a giant charm.

"Let's reinvent the gods,
All the myths of the Ages.
Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests ...
We need great golden copulations..."
[J.D. Morrison]

Feb 7, 06 4:29 pm  · 
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Heimarmene

Psyarch> OMG.

You started it!


> I mean WTF.

Well, you insisted I give examples of modern sculpture... serves you right!


> Those guys are right up there with Wildstyle Inc.

My take is, if you are going to post examples of trash, atleast go down with style!
"A lyrical cosmological device for measuring December"
http://studioatelfway.com/lyricalcasmorogical.htm
is(and sounds) a thousand times better anyday than all the sheer ugliness at wild inc. http://www.wildstyleinc.com/

I mean my friend's one year old niece could do all that chayo in 30 secs. with a fist full of clay (and even better!) than those wild.Inc.ers.

While "the harmonious cosmological device for measuring december"
atleast has enough intuitive genius to notate an idea with musical strokes and arcs. Its a joyful teaser. And if it had no name, and nobody could tell, hey, that's a "lyrical cosmological device for measuring dec,", it would still be a prettier sight than any by chayo, eewwww!

Go down nicely... sink with dignity...

Weather-vane:
http://www.windandweather.com/wind/Images/go-strat.jpg

Dew-drop:
http://www.neilwilkin.com/Dew%20Drop%202003%20B.htm

The Bold Challenge (by a blind artist):
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/programs/sos/4kids/4kids2000/Challenge.htm


> And just, BTW, do you believe in world domination?

Wouldn't anybody who called themselves Heim_Ar_mene (Holy Aryan Fury)!...?...

One of my missions is to give back all architects their lost Egyptian status!...

And flowing purple robes!

[Cross my heart and swear to die.]

Feb 7, 06 4:34 pm  · 
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Heimarmene

vado retro> we are concerned with the act of ordering rather than with order.

An analogue; Sun seeks shadow:
http://edwinwhitedesigns.com/images/SunSeeksShadowFull.jpg
http://edwinwhitedesigns.com/sunseeksshadowdetail.htm

Feb 7, 06 4:37 pm  · 
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Heimarmene

snooker> modern sculpture can be like, " the sound of one hand clapping."

I am so afraid to ask for an example


> It doesn't have to be a the expected, the understood, it can be just the experience.

I didn't deny that. Conversely, the unexpected and the misunderstood needn't be representations like chayo's or a complete abandonment and a "letting itself go"; that is not true freedom. And an enslaved art is no art.

High culture art which looks like its all sweetness and light is in fact based on a substratum of the cruel, the chaotic, the Dionysian. Yes, to represent this chaos, the formless is art too, but I say, a still higher art, is the victory over this chaos, and a form comes from the seat of a ruling law... such art is daring! It gives a law to itself. I find that quite holy. Discovering that law is a holy pursuit, and so, even the expected, the understood, and the all too familiar need not be boring.
That's what makes the Classical enduring and inspiring... its lightness and logic of simplicity is a victory.


> Sorry Hermie if you don't feel anything,

1. Does the object represent the goodness of a feeling of power;
"Fight or Flight":
http://www.verdigrismetals.co.uk/gallery_images/big%20images%20html%20pages/sculpture/fight%20or%20flight.htm

2. or, actually and even better, leave one more powerful for having seen it;
"Sintha Terbakar II / Sita":

"The subject is drawn from a particularly dramatic episode in the Javanese story of the Hindu epic Ramayama. Having been abducted, Sintha is re-united with her husband, Rama, who asks her to step into fire to prove her fidelity to him. Sintha emerges untouched from the flames as a testimony to her purity.
In his sympathetic treatment of this piece, Gatot has shown a calm assurance on the face of Sintha, who knows she is innocent, as the flames engulf her."
http://www.biosystematica.com/gallery/015.jpg


Or,


3. does it stunt,
"Burnt Flowers":
http://www.bendanieli.com/imagepages/image1.htm


4. depress,
"If":
http://www.dreamgallery.co.uk/ain_dream/sculpture.htm


5. cause dissinterested contemplation by being really clever;
"Christ, the King":
http://turnerscross.com/church/statue.php

"13 dimensions of one":
http://www.bendanieli.com/imagepages/image40.htm

or,

6. evoke melancholy with no solution?,
"18 benedictions, standing alone, standing in silence":
http://www.bendanieli.com/imagepages/image6.htm

"The Dybbuk, between two worlds":
http://www.bendanieli.com/imagepages/image34.htm


That's what it comes down to.


> but I do and it seems like alot of others do.

Well, You and those others have just been exposed for bad taste.
http://www.horton-szar.net/pictures/stag/Assets/images/clipart_cowarse.png


> It is sort of like a growing appreciation of Jazz or Blues along with an appreciation of Classical Music.

Jazz has not even caught up with 19th century Classical Music!, both harmonically, rhythmically, as well as melodically.

The music of Palestrina, Monteverdi, J.S.Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethovan, Strauss, Vaugn-Williams, with all its richness and variety is WORTHY of being repeated into Eternity: indeed, that's what makes it 'classical'. 'More enduring than brass'.

The basic tonal range of the Jazz combo is miniscule when compared to the full orchestra - fact.



> Smell the roses and enjoy yourself.

Ever seen a road, a land rising up to hold someone in its care?;
an anonymous part sculpture/part arch. existing somewhere in Latvia:
http://www.dailylatvia.com/pictures/latvia/travel-stone.jpg

Yea, sculptures shouldn't be big ugly blocks and chunks of needless holes standing like a lost cow. A simple curve can not only say, but it can "do" so much...

And thanks. I too would rather smell roses than the prejudices on classicism coming from you.
Don't fear the past.

"There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised." LOL

In good faith.

Feb 7, 06 4:45 pm  · 
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Heimarmene

@babs,

yea, you did.

I'm very dangerous.
LOL.


Good luck to all of you. It was nice talking to you all. My work's done. Am out of here.

Cheers.

Feb 7, 06 4:48 pm  · 
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skunst

Appreciate your contribution to this discussion

Feb 7, 06 4:55 pm  · 
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PsyArch

Heimarmene = Holy Aryan Fury?

I think we just met an artsy Nazi

Holy ar$e fuc&

Feb 7, 06 5:01 pm  · 
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skunst

Oh by the way aramihome .

Now you can go back to your other 'fakename' and take part in the other discussions again like a 'normal' person .

Feb 7, 06 5:42 pm  · 
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skunst

This brings me to another point ,
I am shortly whith this forum , and like it .
But what starts to be irritating to me is all the hiding behind funny names ,and when you look at the biography of the person behind the name . tjere is often nothing there .
Real names would be nicer.

Feb 7, 06 5:47 pm  · 
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stone
skunst

... you'll get used to it ... it really doesn't matter

Feb 7, 06 6:35 pm  · 
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Nevermore

skunst

what or who is a 'normal' person ?




if you ask me..Heimarmene is brilliant (whether he/she is a nazi or a fake or whatever)

I think Heimar's 'falseness' is much more truthful than your honesty.

Feb 8, 06 2:40 am  · 
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skunst

ok nevermore
you can get the wrong idea what I ment whith " normal person"
probably should have used another word ,
like " reasonable" or something.(must be my pour English)
And I never said I am an honest person , these are your words.
Thought we were friends ( have to cry now) .

Feb 8, 06 4:06 am  · 
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Nevermore

well skunst....your comment to heimarmene did appear very rude.

yea..im still your friend..and you'r still a great sculptor.

no sweat !


Feb 8, 06 4:15 am  · 
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farmer

Barbara Hepworth

Feb 8, 06 6:50 am  · 
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snooker

Hermi,

I don't belive we eat from the same plate, Dionysian vs Apollonian

Feb 8, 06 10:16 am  · 
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farmer

Self by Marc Quinn

Feb 8, 06 1:04 pm  · 
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skunst

Found this in a search for organic architecture
How much worse can it get
gives me the creeps
The dutch!!! scultural carpenter mario philippona
who first studied architecture.!!!!!!! etc.
Lets all be happy he didn,'t

Feb 9, 06 11:17 am  · 
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liberty bell

PS that self portrait by Mark Quinn is cast in his own blood. A true self-portrait. You didn't mention that, farmer. Love that guy's work.

Feb 9, 06 11:29 am  · 
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skunst

yes the marc quinn is impressive,
good that his eyes are closed , so cannot see the picture below him

Feb 9, 06 11:54 am  · 
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skunst

famousone Richard tuttle

Feb 9, 06 11:59 am  · 
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skunst

another Tuttle

Feb 9, 06 12:01 pm  · 
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skunst

Gabriel Orozco

Feb 9, 06 12:13 pm  · 
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skunst

mike Kelley : educational complex

Feb 9, 06 12:15 pm  · 
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skunst

Louise bourgeos : 'Twosome'

Feb 9, 06 12:30 pm  · 
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skunst

(bourgeois)

Feb 9, 06 12:32 pm  · 
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larslarson

didn't that marc quinn portrait melt?
i don't know if that's the only one he made..but i seem to
recall that a construction worker unplugged the refrigerator that
it was in and it melted a few years back...

"By published accounts, builders making improvements on Charles Saatchi's kitchen at the request of his girlfriend, television chef Nigella Lawson ("domestic goddess" of Nigella Bites), inadvertently switched off the refrigeration unit which kept Quinn's sculpture intact, "...leaving the head to melt into a pool of blood.""

apparently he makes one a year though..

Feb 9, 06 12:32 pm  · 
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robert irwin


larry bell


dan graham

Feb 9, 06 12:37 pm  · 
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skunst

Matthew Barney
[url=http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/barney/clip1.html[/url]

Feb 9, 06 1:18 pm  · 
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skunst

[url=http://www.pbs.org[/url]

Feb 9, 06 1:20 pm  · 
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skunst
/art21/artists/barney/clip1.html
Feb 9, 06 1:22 pm  · 
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skunst

sorry I am to much stupid to get this link ok

Feb 9, 06 1:23 pm  · 
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snooker

Oh one I don't belive has been mentioned: Big influence on me...[img] http://www.clr.toronto.edu/VIRTUALLIB/CLIP/IMAGES/GAUSTIN/501039.JPG

Feb 10, 06 7:59 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

David Henson Kurtz

Henrik Cartos

John Espinoza

Feb 10, 06 8:09 pm  · 
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snooker

Here is another one of my Heros! Korzak was a Polish kid raised on the East Coast. He worked on Mount Rushmore, and was tossed when the got into it with the original Sculptors Son. It is said fist flew. Then the Lakota People approached him and ask him to sculpt the warrior,
Crazy Horse. He undertook the commission and till this day it is still a work in progress. Hermi, might agree with me on this one...the guy is a Master among Sculptors. http://www.crazyhorse.org/carving/face/index.shtml

Feb 11, 06 6:35 pm  · 
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n_

Eduardo Chillida. Spanish Sculptor. Minimilist Design. HOT.

www.eduardo-chillida.com

[sorry, don't know how to add images]

Feb 12, 06 4:42 pm  · 
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nicomachean

i second Chillida, and I love most everything else that's been posted.
Oteiza's another favorite.

Oteiza


Chillida

Feb 12, 06 6:23 pm  · 
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poly

anish kapoor ......
and henry moore ... chk out his artistic impressions named ... 'father' ...and the other one called 'mother' ... didn't have time to search it on the net ... kinda difficult too

Feb 13, 06 5:41 am  · 
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