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The (art) show must go on1 comment

kimiam wrote 1 week ago: …and it is, until next June. Town of Cary staff, CVA volunteers and Paris Alexander (center i … more →

Tags: Art, Blogroll, Cary Visual Art, Inspiration, Joy, Life, Sculpture, spackle, Paris Alexander

Little black number2 comments

kimiam wrote 1 month ago:   “Night Lotus”, an intimately scaled, meditative, black steatite stone carving by Dale L. McEn … more →

Tags: Art, Blogroll, Cary Visual Art, Humor, Inspiration, Joy, Philosophy, Sculpture, Silly

Brancusi's Essential Egg18 comments

100swallows wrote 1 month ago: What can you make of this work by Constantin Brancusi? The Newborn by Constantin Brancusi (a bronze … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art, Art History, Brancusi, Great Artists, Sculpture

Stone Jali Panels from Wilstone House and Gardens

wilstonehouseandgardens wrote 2 months ago: Detail of the Jali panel above, from Wilstone House and Gardens These enchanting pierced stone windo … more →

Tags: Products, garden feature, jali panel, jali, stone jali, marble jali, interesting things for the garden, pierced stone, sandstone carving

A strange occurrence of fonts - Lake District Diary Part II1 comment

clivebatkin wrote 2 months ago: So on Day II, I passed the following bit of carved stone, now incorporated into a farm building wall … more →

Tags: design/creative, fonts, lake district

Carrying His Dad Piggyback10 comments

100swallows wrote 2 months ago: What is this? Who is that burly guy and why is he carrying an old man? The burly guy is Aeneas, th … more →

Tags: Art, Art History, Baroque, Bernini, Great Artists, Greek art, Greek ceramic vessels, Mannerism, Michelangelo

Bernini's Elephant6 comments

100swallows wrote 3 months ago: In 1665 a small Egyptian obelisk was found in the monastery garden of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in R … more →

Tags: Architecture, Art, Art History, Baroque, Bernini, Great Artists, Rubens, Sculpture, Travel

A rock and a hard face9 comments

kimiam wrote 4 months ago: I worked some on the hair, the face and began shaping the hand of this lady in limestone.  I … more →

Tags: Blogroll, spackle, Love, Inspiration, Joy, Art, Sculpture, Life, Marchesseault

Digging deeper9 comments

kimiam wrote 4 months ago:   At the point this photo was taken, I was told not to carve further on the hair or fabric aro … more →

Tags: Blogroll, spackle, Inspiration, Art, Sculpture, Life, Zen, Marchesseault, figurative sculpture

Amarjit Chandan's Poem being Carved in Stone in Oxfordshire16 comments

fauzia rafiq wrote 5 months ago: London-based Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan’s poem with its English translation is being carved … more →

Tags: Punjabi Poetry, Poetry, Literature, Art, Books, Punjabi Literature, Events, writing, Life

Michelangelo's First Two Statues12 comments

100swallows wrote 5 months ago: Michelangelo got his first commission in Bologna: two small statues of saints. He had been studying … more →

Tags: Art, Michelangelo, Sculpture, Great Artists, Beauty, Art History, renaissance, Aesthetics, drapery

Michelangelo's Marble Quarries Today10 comments

100swallows wrote 5 months ago: Michelangelo was not lazy but in his whole life—a long one—he finished only about twelve or four … more →

Tags: Art, Art History, Great Artists, Michelangelo, renaissance, Sculpture, Carrara, Florence, Italy

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson19 comments

thekoolaidmom wrote 5 months ago: Title: The Gargoyle Author: Andrew Davindson Publisher: Doubleday ISBN: 9780385524940 Release Date: … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Burns, car accident, Epic, Fiction, hospital, Love, mental illness, Psychology

Michelangelo As Gladiator6 comments

100swallows wrote 6 months ago: One of the most memorable adventures in the whole Michelangelo legend is his famous flight out of Ro … more →

Tags: Art, Art History, Great Artists, Michelangelo, Pope Julius II, renaissance, Sculpture, angry flight, Pope Julius

Little bit older and a lot less boulder9 comments

kimiam wrote 6 months ago:   Here is more progress on the stone carving I’m doing in Paris Alexander’s worksh … more →

Tags: Blogroll, spackle, Inspiration, Joy, Silly, Humor, Art, Sculpture, Life

Michelangelo and Bernini30 comments

100swallows wrote 6 months ago: Robert Mileham wrote: I mean no disrespect for either of these two great sculptors. They, like Beeth … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Art, Art History, Baroque, Beauty, Bernini, Great Artists, Michelangelo, renaissance

Was Michelangelo Crooked ? (Part 4)3 comments

100swallows wrote 6 months ago: The Cupid fraud is the last one the biographers mention. Did Michelangelo learn his lesson and get b … more →

Tags: Art, Art History, Michelangelo, Pieta, renaissance, the David, Vasari, Add new tag, Bernini

Was Michelangelo Crooked? (Part 3)19 comments

100swallows wrote 6 months ago: Probably the Cardinal, like the man who gave Michelangelo the head to copy years before, would never … more →

Tags: Art, Michelangelo, Sculpture, Great Artists, Art History, renaissance, Rome, marble statue, fraud

Fo Shizzel My Chizzel8 comments

kimiam wrote 6 months ago:     Second day carving this stone and I am having a blast. My teacher, Paris Alexander,tau … more →

Tags: Art, Blogroll, figurative sculpture, Humor, Inspiration, Joy, Life, Love, Marchesseault

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