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Thursday, June 3, 2010
I'm enjoying this series I'm working on but I am feeling stuck. I'm not sure if I should push the form to be more realistic, or keep it as a minimalistic approach to anatomy.
Sure! Terracotta. Hand built, slab constructions. The Scythian tattoos are deeply engraved and then a green luster glaze was painted into the tattoo. Would it help if I took a different picture? I can appreciate photography, but I am not that good at it. Let me know.
Terracotta? I thought for sure you were going to say some sort of rubbery material. On my screen, the torso looks luminous. If you have more pics, I'd love to see them.
My first thought drew a parallel between your sculpture and Greco-Roman amphorae (believe it or not) The tattoos look like the heroic scenes painted in registers.
hmmmmmmmmmmm..... I've seen this piece in person.... I like it. the photo makes the color more skin like and less Terracotta. that said I like the more realistic approach. Focusing on a Body part and getting it as real as possible.then I think the Terracotta color would set off the piece nicely.
The shape is great, and I don't think you need more of it. This way it focuses in on the part you really wanted to talk about, the hip and belly. The ragged edge really helps make sure this feels intentional.
The tattoos...I don't know. They feel strangely out of place. I get the style but it's odd on a human form--maybe that's the point. Maybe if there were more it would hang together. Right now it feels like you're halfway to something, caught in the middle between a great sculpture and a more complex piece.
I'm not sure whether there is an artistic statement about society in there somewhere, if so I would expect the subject of the tattoos to speak to it. Instead I don't understand how they connect.
The piece looked like wax to me. And the tattoos like more like scarification or recent burns than tattoos in the photos. Which is an interesting effect but I'm not sure if that's what you're going for. I feel like the tattoos read oddly because they aren't in places that I've generally seen tattoos. So I'm curious if this is a depiction of how people would have been tattooed historically or something from your imagination?
Just to be clear we are critiquing the piece, not the picture?
ReplyDeleteThat is correct. :-)
ReplyDeleteWould you mind telling us a little bit about the medium and imagery? My computer sucks and I can't really make it out.
ReplyDeleteSure!
ReplyDeleteTerracotta. Hand built, slab constructions. The Scythian tattoos are deeply engraved and then a green luster glaze was painted into the tattoo.
Would it help if I took a different picture? I can appreciate photography, but I am not that good at it. Let me know.
Terracotta? I thought for sure you were going to say some sort of rubbery material. On my screen, the torso looks luminous. If you have more pics, I'd love to see them.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought drew a parallel between your sculpture and Greco-Roman amphorae (believe it or not) The tattoos look like the heroic scenes painted in registers.
hmmmmmmmmmmm.....
ReplyDeleteI've seen this piece in person....
I like it. the photo makes the color more skin like and less Terracotta.
that said I like the more realistic approach.
Focusing on a Body part and getting it as real as possible.then I think the Terracotta color would set off the piece nicely.
The shape is great, and I don't think you need more of it. This way it focuses in on the part you really wanted to talk about, the hip and belly. The ragged edge really helps make sure this feels intentional.
ReplyDeleteThe tattoos...I don't know. They feel strangely out of place. I get the style but it's odd on a human form--maybe that's the point. Maybe if there were more it would hang together. Right now it feels like you're halfway to something, caught in the middle between a great sculpture and a more complex piece.
I'm not sure whether there is an artistic statement about society in there somewhere, if so I would expect the subject of the tattoos to speak to it. Instead I don't understand how they connect.
The piece looked like wax to me. And the tattoos like more like scarification or recent burns than tattoos in the photos. Which is an interesting effect but I'm not sure if that's what you're going for. I feel like the tattoos read oddly because they aren't in places that I've generally seen tattoos. So I'm curious if this is a depiction of how people would have been tattooed historically or something from your imagination?
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