Chapunga Stone Sculpture, Loveland, Colorado

It's All Temporary

The Gustav Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway

My Hamburg family took a short cruise to Oslo, Norway where they visited the Gustav Vigeland Sculpture Park. 

Gustav Vigeland was born in 1869, most of his sculpture was created between 1926 and 1942.  Interesting, while World War ll raged, he was busy creating his art.

As an aside, I think it would have been thoughtful if Vigeland had supplied coats for these poor people.  Winter in Norway is COLD!

Drowning Beautiful

Sometimes an artist creates something so beautifully simple that it takes your breath away.  Literally. Artist Jasode Caires Taylor creates life-size cement sculptures of people and submerges them into the waters of South America.  As time passes the sculptures become part of the underwater landscape and slowly become artificial reefs ripe with marine life.  The process of experiencing artwork out of a traditional gallery and underwater is described with intimately vivid detail on his site.  Absolutely incredible execution merging art, life and the wild seas into an ever-evolving textured aesthetic that will hopefully stand the test of time.

http://24flinching.com/word/featured/drowning-beautiful/

Chapunga Stone Sculpture

I am so in love with the Chapunga Stone Sculptures from Zimbabwe I will show them in two segments because I don't want to leave anything out. The sculptors use an assortment of stones, they often leave areas of the stone's natural outer layer combining it with intricately textured areas and highly polished areas.  I have no words to describe how these sculptures move me, there is a poignant beauty about them, combined with enormous strength and beauty of human dignity.

Listening To My Baby Kick

Coming of Age

The End of Hope

Protected by Our Spirits

Ron Mueck Sculptures

Check out the ENORMOUS sculptures of Ron Mueck.  He started out as a puppeteer among other things - so I can't get enough of this . . . Mueck, Ron  (1958-  ) Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne, Australia,  to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as “Labyrinth,” a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.     Mueck then started his own company in London, making models to be photographed for advertisements. He has lots of the dolls he made during his advertising years stored in his home. Although some still have, he feels, “a presence on their own,” many were made just to be photographed from a particular angle—”one strip of a face,” for example, with a lot of loose material lurking an inch outside the camera’s frame.   Eventually Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the physical “presence” of the original object, and so he turned to fine art and sculpture. In the early 1990s, still in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and was wondering what material would do the trick. Latex was the usual, but he wanted something harder, more precise. Luckily, he saw a little architectural decor on the wall of a boutique and inquired as to the nice, pink stuff’s nature. Fiberglass resin was the answer, and Mueck has made it his bronze and marble ever since.