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The Swan Automaton
John Joseph Merlin
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Balance
Tobias Hutzler
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Why Does Mount Rushmore Exist?
This gargantuan shrine to democracy has never felt so surreal. By Sam Anderson.
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The 9 strangest statues in Belgium.
A fountain of jazz-playing animals, an angel with a gas mask and an entire family of peeing sculptures – Belgium has no shortage of strange statues.
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Sculpture Artist Casey Curran Makes Metal Plants Blossom with Movement
Casey Curran's kinetic sculptures may be made of metal, but they depict organisms that flutter with movement through a hand crank or a motor.
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Would these hyper-realistic masks fool a facial recognition system?
Some would definitely be duped. Landon Meier, a designer and sculptor based in Colorado, makes hyper-realistic masks of famous people. He’s created masks of Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and more. They look disturbingly real, if a bit uncanny. Now the three masks mentioned above are on sale on eBay, with bids at thousands of dollars and counting. Looking at photos of people wearing one of the freakily realistic masks, it’s hard to tell it’s not a real face. That got me wondering: If it can fool my brain, could it fool a facial recognition algorithm?
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Monumental hands rise from the water in Venice to highlight climate change.
Artist Lorenzo Quinn finished the installation of a monumental sculpture for the 2017 Venice Biennale. Titled Support, the piece depicts a pair of gigantic hands rising from the water.
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Toshihiko Hosaka is a master of sand
These incredible sand sculptures are the work of Japanese artist Toshihiko Hosaka. He has been honing his skills for over 20 years and was recently rewarded with 1st prize at the recent Fulong International Sand Sculpture Art Festival in Taiwan earlier this month.
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Dinara Kasko is Pushing the Boundaries of Cake Design
Dinara Kasko is a pastry chef and culinary artist from Ukraine who has gained a huge online following for her innovative cake designs and moulds.
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The Renaissance artist who cast live snakes, frogs, and lizards to make his ceramics.
French 16th-century artist Bernard Palissy was known to capture live plant and animals species to create his vibrant ceramic plates, basins and vessels.
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Robot sculpture, coming to a gallery near you
Sculpture might not be the first thing that springs to mind if someone mentions robotics. We hear again and again that robots are set to change the way we drive our cars, grow our food, and perform surgery. But robots are changing art too. In architecture, robots are already used for 3D printing houses, laying bricks, and cutting, shaping and moulding all manner of forms. But why use robots to make sculpture?
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Decadent pastries formed from porcelain and glass.
Shayna Leib is a glass artist with 20 years experience in the field to-date.
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Gigantic Sculptures of Cats Wearing Helmets by Kenji Yanobe
The Japanese sculptor Kenji Yanobe is known for his large-scale robotic and nightmarish toys. But animals too have always played an important role in Yanobe’s work too. And in his latest work titled Ship’s Cat, Yanobe has created a series of large-scale cat sculptures in various positions wearing protective helmets.
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The Catholic cardinal who bankrolled Bernini’s sensual sculptures.
In the 1610s, a powerful Catholic cardinal with an insatiable taste for art discovered a sculptor named Gian Lorenzo Bernini. At the time, Bernini was a teenager, and still restoring ancient sculptures alongside his artist-father, Pietro. It wasn’t long after Cardinal Scipione Borghese laid eyes on Bernini’s own early work, however, that the young artist’s prospects began to change. Cardinal Borghese commissioned some of Bernini’s greatest works, amassing sculptures in his villa and helping to launch the career of the Renaissance icon.
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Useful Only for Scrap Paper: Michelangelo’s Drawings
Charles Hope reviews "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" at Metropolitan Museum, New York, until 12 February 2018.
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Lifelike galvanized wire animal sculptures by Kendra Haste.
Working only with layers of painted galvanized wire atop steel armature, UK artist Kendra Haste creates faithful reproductions.
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Behind the fig leaf, a story of sin, censorship, and the Catholic Church.
A 1563 rule against “all lasciviousness” in religious art spelled trouble for nude paintings and sculptures. Here’s how this battle against indecency unfolded.
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Creative “Skull-ptures” by Hedi Xandt.
The Hamburg based artist of Norwegian descent creates magnificent sculptures inspired from fine arts, mythology and sculptures in the ancient periods which he then casts with a dark, elegant twist resulting in minimal yet striking creations.
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A Spitting Image
Painted Spanish sculpture had flesh tones and realistic wounds and tears and glass eyes, and it gave Protestants the creeps. But here’s the thing: Italian sculptors of the Renaissance also colored their works and were seemingly happy to do so. If we tend to forget this, it may be because the evidence we are looking at has been rigged: painted terracottas of the Renaissance have been stripped of their color, just as innumerable wood carvings of the northern schools have been stripped and “antiqued” in a manner acceptable to past taste and the antiques trade. By James Fenton.
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Colorfully Eroded Busts Explore Abstract Perceptions of Interiority by Christina West
Artist Christina West sculpts eroded portraits of anonymous faces which reveal colorful patches existing just below the surface. Segments of the subject's face are worn away or chopped off, focusing the viewer's attention on the layered interior of the busts, rather than their exterior features. The
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