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A wax sculpture is a depiction made using a waxy substance. ... (1712–80). Other artists were inspired by wax works by Leonhard Posch or Josef Müller (fl.1793).
Bonnie Rychlak (born 1951) is an American artist, curator, and writer. She is known for her wax sculptures representing functional urban forms and actions of evacuation and for her practice of carving, casting wax, and melting it into fabric.
Sunil Kandalloor is a Mumbai-based artist who specializes in wax sculptures. [1] He is arguably [vague] the most well known wax sculpture artist in the country [citation needed] having wax museums at Lonavala in Pune, Maharashtra, Devgad in Konkan, Maharashtra, and Sunil's Wax Museum in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. [2]
Petah Coyne (born 1953) is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer best known for her large and small scale hanging sculptures and floor installations. [2] Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organic to the ephemeral, from incorporating dead fish, mud, sticks, hay, hair, black sand, specially-formulated and patented wax, satin ribbons, silk ...
Fischer’s temporary art wax sculptures have become iconic of the artist’s practice. Fischer began making wax sculptures in the early 2000s, resulting in anonymous and crudely cut female forms. Today, his wax sculptures are refined portraits of significant art world figures that are lit like candles and melted over the duration of an exhibition.
The following is a list of wax figures which are currently displayed or have been displayed at one of the ... Steve Jobs [687] Stevie Wonder [124] Steven Gerrard [688 ...
Wax statues depicting effects of the plague, La Specola, Florence. Gaetano Giulio Zumbo (1656–1701) was an Italian sculptor in wax or wax modeller of the Baroque era. His primary talents were not those generally considered as artistic but devoted to the creation of scientific models that were highly regarded as curiosity pieces in his time.
In the following year, a wax sculpture of a head dissection made for John Hilton won the first prize. Cooper at Guy's Hospital seems to have intended to create a collection of wax medical models, because in 1825 he took Towne onto the staff. Wax head by Joseph Towne, ca 1840, showing the symptoms of syphilis (Museum of London)