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Cynthia Dorothy Albritton (May 24, 1947 – April 21, 2022), better known by the pseudonym Cynthia Plaster Caster, was an American visual artist and self-described "recovering groupie" who gained fame for creating plaster casts of celebrities' erect penises. Albritton began her career in 1968 by casting penises of rock musicians.
Plaster cast bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon based on a life mask cast in 1786.. A plaster cast is a copy made in plaster of another 3-dimensional form. The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a pregnant belly, a fossil or other remains such as fresh or fossilised footprints – particularly in palaeontology (a track of dinosaur ...
Bust of Nefertiti; c. 1345 BC; limestone and plaster; height: 48 cm, width: 20 cm; Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human body, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. The bust is ...
Pietro Paulo Caproni (1862–1928) was founder and co-owner of PP Caproni & Brother, Boston, Massachusetts, manufacturers of plaster reproductions of classical and contemporary statues. These 'cast' reproductions were, in an era before commercial photography, an integral educational tool in teaching people the history of art and antiquities.
A 7-3/8 in (18.7 cm) plaster bust is at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. Bronze busts are at the Carnegie Museum of Art , [ 32 ] and in private collections. Bronze casts of Diana 's head are at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site; [ 33 ] Harvard University ; [ 34 ] and elsewhere.
There has been a short but proud history of vagina-related works on display during Miami Art Week over the years: the whimsical inflatable vagina of 2019, the 12-foot neon orgasming vagina of 2018.
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The East Court which has casts of Italian monuments and the Porta Magna of San Petronio Basilica in Bologna by Jacopo della Quercia. The Cast Courts (originally called the Architectural Courts [1]) of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, comprise two large halls. Unusually for a museum, the Cast Courts house a collection not of ...