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In archeology and art history the appearance, and sometimes disappearance, of monumental sculpture (using the size criterion) in a culture, is regarded as of great significance, though tracing the emergence is often complicated by the presumed existence of sculpture in wood and other perishable materials of which no record remains; [7] the totem pole is an example of a tradition of monumental ...
The Y-et sculpture, painted concrete, Midlanda-Sundsvall, Sweden, 1995 Bengt Karl Erik Lindström (September 3, 1925, Berg Municipality — January 29, 2008, Sundsvall ) was a Swedish artist. Lindström was one of Sweden's best known contemporary artists with a characteristic style of distinct colors, often including contorted faces.
Large Two Forms (LH 566) is a 1966-1969 sculpture by Henry Moore. The monumental sculpture measures 365 cm × 610 cm × 400 cm (144 in × 240 in × 157 in). It comprises two large curving elements that almost meet. The organic shapes, each with oval openings, resemble two human pelvis bones, positioned as if copulating.
The Leshan Giant Buddha (Chinese: 樂山大佛) is a 71-meter (233 ft) tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang dynasty).It is carved out of a cliff face of Cretaceous red bed sandstones that lies at the confluence of the Min River and Dadu River in the southern part of Sichuan Province in China, near the city of Leshan. [1]
Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul, [1] a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE, Capitoline Museums, Rome Assyrian lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, c. 800 –721 BCE Michelangelo's Moses, (c. 1513–1515), San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th-century Japan, ivory with shell inlay The Angel of ...
David Black (May 29, 1928 – September 5, 2023) was an American sculptor known for both, his pioneering, avant-garde use of plastics and his monumental, aluminum, large scale public sculptures. Early life and artistic career
It is some 50 cm (20 in) long and quite visible. The cracks on the plinth, or the bronze base of the sculpture were the deepest, 4 to 8 mm (0.16 to 0.31 in) wide. The damage of the base, both to the sculpture and the pedestal, is such, that the sculpture stands on the inner, corroded iron skeleton and not on its bronze body.
Three years later, Sosno returned to France to make his first sculpture, "Obliterated Cars". In 1983 Sosno was the subject of a one-man show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice . Then in the year following he had his first one-man show in the United States at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut .