From:
sue <zdome@zzzzzzzz>
Date:
Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:38:28 -0700
Subject:
Some Favorites - not quite as requested
John Graham wrote:
Quoted text begins.Thanks for the Bernini image links. All the others seemed to be
painters (they can all paint barns), except for the two which seemed to
End of quote.
Actually no they aren't all painters 2 are actually sculptors from the
main list (Bernini and Lipschitz) Gaudi was an architect but he came
from a family of sculptors and his work is sculptural in ways no other
architect has ever approached.
Hiroshige and Hokusai were both printmakers the rest are/were painters
The question was about my top 100 artworks not being able to whittle my
lists down that far I went for top artists instead - now top 100
sculptors might have been an easier task in a way though I doubt it -
Two interesting and sometimes great (imnsho) artists James Turrell and
Wolfgang Lai*b
are they actually sculptors? Laib does installation and Turrell moves
earth in a crater
*FYI not all great sculptors whose works were/are in stone were/are
actually stone carvers. Rodin certainly was not - he never touched the
stuff - and you would be hard put to find any who were better sculptors
than he. Stone as a media is actually very fragile and limiting when
compared to other easily available things. It is the challenge of this
media that I believe brings us (the stone sculptors on this list)
together here. The challenge as great as it is, is also what keeps our
numbers relatively small. For an artist who is focused on art rather
than carving stone specifically I can definately state it is probably
the 2nd most difficult media to work in which of course makes it one of
the most exciting for me. I have been carving well over 40 years and it
is still amazing to me how great a challenge stone is. This was not
however, a stone specific discussion and I do- appologise if we went off
acceptible list topics but one can't really divorce the art (whatever
art is) from stone sculpture and be left with an object worth viewing.
If this list is going to encompass sculptural stone work (which it has
during 10 +- years I have been a participant) as well as other stone
topics then art has to be part of the range of acceptible topics at
least for the artists who converse here. After all, we don't complain
when the topic is walls or foundations or geology or chemical
components.. Stone is just one medium - art encompasses many forms yet
the process is constant from one medium to another varying only from
person to person. When an artist bothers to learn the techniques of the
media they are working with something wonderous and magical can ensue
and when they don't bother (which happens all too frequently) then alot
of beautiful materials can get murdered. Conversely in a way, when a
stone carver doesn't bother to learn art basics the stone ends up not
only just as dead but horribly mutilated in the murderous process. Even
our dry wall building friends who refuse to countenance battering poor
minerals use artistic process when creating their walls and I think
discussion of art does indeed belong in this forum along with other
aspects of stone work.
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