Sculptures

Sculptures may very well be the pinnacle of the art

world. In my opinion, the difference between a sculpture

and wall art is like watching the sunset or looking at a

picture of a sunset.

A sculpture is fully in your space.  You can

approach it, walk around it and interact with it.  The

dimensions of a sculpture provide a connection you will find

with no other fine art. However, as a general rule sculptures

tend to be more expensive than wall art.

There are several "types" of sculptures and you are

probably already familiar with most of them. First you have,

Marble, Stone and Wood Sculpture. This is perhaps the

most grueling of all media, because only through intense

labor can the sculpture be carved out of a single piece of

stone or marble or wood.

Marble, stone and wood sculptures fall under what is

categorized as take away sculpting.  With take-away

sculpting, the artist must mentally reach into the block of

stone or wood and see the sculpture within long before any

physical work begins. "After the artist has seen the figure

inside it's simply a matter of removing the unnecessary

stone." Well at least that's the way Michelangelo put it.

For those of us who are not Michelangelo, it's easy to

imagine how complicated take-away sculpting must truly be.

You have no second chances or room for mistakes.

The process is a one-shot deal, and sometimes far along

the sculpting route you'll discover a horrible flaw

imbedded within the stone; which was not apparent on

the surface 6 weeks or 6 months ago when you began

working on it.