From:
"Walter S. Arnold" <walter@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:37:38 -0500
Subject:
Carving from maquettes versus direct carving.
At 03:18 PM 6/25/2005, Liv2sculpt@------- wrote:
Quoted text begins.Henry Moore created maquettes and then had his assistants execute his works
for him.
(With his oversight and creative intervention)
End of quote.
That's the party line, and might have been the case early on. In the early
70's I saw his work being executed in Pietrasanta and Querceta. The carvers
told me they never saw him; he'd, for example, ship down a shoebox sized
box with 5 clay maquettes, and the carvers in the shops would enlarge the
pieces to 10 feet tall. Any aesthetic judgement (and when enlarging that
much, a paper thickness change from the model results in a very different
slope and angle in the final) was left to those carvers. His contract and
contact was with the owners of those shops.
One shop I was working in did some pieces for Noguchi, working strictly
from simple blueprints and carving the items in Belgian Black. They were
subcontracting for a larger shop which had the overall contract, these were
smaller elements to be incorporated in another piece.
Walter S. Arnold * walter@---------------
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