A collage of Plankton modeling stages.
The final Spongebob Plankton.
Modeled using the Chisel SDF 3D add-on for Blender.
Finalized in Blender Sculpt Mode.
Rendered using Cycles.
Slightly post-processed in ArcBrush.
La foire et sa mnagerie
Les animaux dans lart PAN 2026 et autre chose(s)
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Un cheval chinois en cramique vernie dynastie Tang (618-907)a y est, PAN Amsterdam vient de fermer ses portes. Comme toujours, cest pass comme un courant dair, et comme toujours, galristes et visiteurs sont contents, les uns de leurs ventes, les autres de leurs trouvailles quils les aient achetes ou non. ce propos, je peux vous rvler que le Thrse Schwartze dont je vous ai parl dernirement, ira sans doute lAmsterdam Museum, et que de toute faon, il restera aux Pays-Bas.
Quant mes trouvailles, mes dcouvertes moi, elles sont multiples. Tout dabord, un aveu: jaime les chevaux. Jadmire leur force, leur lgance, leur humanit, bref, leur beaut. Jai un faible pour les chevaux chinois en particulier ceux en cramique ou en bois, sentend. Alors, chez Paul Ruitenbeek (stand 135), je suis tombe en arrt devant ce cheval de la dynastie Tang, plus que millnaire, et pourtant pimpant comme sil sortait de latelier de lartiste. Cette statuette reprsente un tianma, un cheval cleste, venu de lOuest, et trs pris par les classes suprieures de lpoque. Dans sa forme cramique, il tait plac dans les monuments funraires. Ici, lanimal est larrt, et semble attendre son cavalier patiemment quitte partir aussitt au trot. Son vernis est impeccable, tonnant aprs tant de sicles. Oui, dcidment, ce cheval ma plu.
Encensoir en Porcelaine (XVIIIe sicle), Paul Ruitenbeek (stand 135)Mais ce nest mme pas la pice matresse de Ruitenbeek. a, cest un encensoir en porcelaine de couleur lilas, datant du XVIIIe sicle. Il repose lgamment sur trois pieds, et il a lair parfaitement lisse. Si lisse quon est tent de le toucher, pour voir sil est aussi doux quil en a lair Une pice pour connaisseurs
Partant du stand de Paul Ruitenbeek, jai dabord visit quelques stands valeurs sres, comme Albricht (103) et ses nombreuses toiles des impressionnistes nerlandais Isaac Israls et George H. Breitner, le premier reprsent surtout par ses portraits de femmes lgantes, Breitner par ses portraits de sa ville, Amsterdam, en travaux, et en pleine croissance ce tournant du XXe sicle.
Chez Daatselaar (40) encore Israls, mais aussi les frres Dufy (oui, Raoul avait un frre cadet, Jean), mais aussi (parmi tant dautres) Jean-Pierre Cassigneul (n en 1935), et puis une des rares femmes parmi les peintres du XIXe sicle, Henriette Ronner (ne Knip, 1821-1909).
Ronner est surtout connue pour ses portraits de chats. Ici, des chatons, des boules de duvet. C est adorable, et nanmoins, cest considr comme un sujet mineur. son poque, les tableaux de Ronner taient trs priss. Ce nest quau XXe sicle quon a commenc ddaigner ce genre de sujet, et que loeuvre de Ronner est passe au second plan, pour tre redcouverte aujourdhui.
Je me demande sil en a t de mme des fameux chats de Steinlen (Galerie Stylo, n0 93). Bien sr, de lui on connat surtout ses affiches, ses illustrations. Est-ce que son art tait ou est considr comme un art mineur (Cest une vraie question je ne connais pas la rponse.)
Affiche de Steinlen (Galerie Stylo, 93)Tout d un coup, a mest venu lesprit: il y en a, des animaux, ici! Bien sr, de tout temps on les a reprsent en peinture surtout les oiseaux et autres animaux comestibles, vivants ou morts ou les animaux exotiques. Mais ce que je vois cette foire est un peu diffrent je vois toutes sortes danimaux sous forme de sculpture et souvent ils ont un ct quelque peu bizarre, inquitant, par la texture surtout. Question subsidiaire: la taxidermie aurait-elle acquis des titres de noblesse artistique Jai limpression den voir diffrents endroits, ou alors des matriaux semblant imiter la peau, les poils
Ctait notamment au stand de Jaski (39), bien connue pour sa grande collection de peintures CoBrA. Bien sr, l aussi, on voit des animaux, des oiseaux, des chats mais ce nest pas de ceux-l que je veux parler. Parmi les autres poulains de cette galerie: Les Deux Garons (Michel Vanderheijden van Tinteren (1965) et Roel Moonen (1966)). Leurs animaux eux sont faits, du moins en partie, laide de la taxidermie. Ils utilisent aussi dautres techniques, comme la sculpture ou la peinture, mais ce qui les caractrise, cest quon veut les toucher, les caresser, et surtout les consoler et quelquefois repousser. Je connaissais loeuvre des Deux Garons, du moins en partie mais je constate une volution. Il me semble que certains de leurs animaux deviennent humains (et, partant, plus touchants), tandis que dautres sont plus inquitants.
Il se trouve que ces animaux humains et un peu inquitants, voire repoussants, jen ai vu ailleurs dans cette foire. Plusieurs. Rien que le gorille lentre que je naimerais pas trop rencontrer au coin dun bois
Cependant, il y avait galement des animaux charmants, mme dans lart contemporain. Prenez les figures dErik Buijs (1970). Ses bonshommes et ses chiens peuvent avoir un ct Charlie Brown, soucieux, inquiets, on a surtout envie des les consoler, de les prendre dans ses bras, quelle que soit leur taille ou leur matire (galerie Huub Hannen, 57). Ils sont humains sans tre inquitants.
Une oeuvre dErik Buijs (galerie Huub Hannen, 57)Pour finir, un artiste, Pim Palsgraaf (1979) dont loeuvre na rien danimal ni dhumain ni mes yeux de triste ou dinquitant. Au contraire, mme si Palsgraaf tire ses matriaux dendroits en dclin, dusines abandonnes, de btiments en ruine. Il travaille avec des matriaux de rcupration, du bois, des mtaux. Il en fait quelque chose de nouveau, sculpture, tableau ou autre structure, en tout cas un objet qui invite tre examin de partout, qui intrigue et qui symbolise une renaissance, puisque le rebut est transform en oeuvre dart. (NL=US Gallery, stand 45).
Pim Palsgraaf, Traces of Emptiness, 2018 (NL=US Gallery, 45)Informations pratiques
PAN 2026 est termin, il faudra attendre novembre 2027 pour un nouvelle version. Mais la semaine prochaine se tiendra Amsterdam Art Week (un grand nombre de galeries y participent), en dcembre lAffordable Art Fair, toujours Amsterdam, et au printemps le Rotterdam Art Fair, sans compter TEFAF, la plus grande foire dart dEurope (Maastricht, mars 2027). Sans compter les foires et autres vnements culturels Anvers et Bruxelles
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Art Fair and Animal Farm
Animals in Art at PAN 2026
Thrse Schwartze, Girls from the orphanage singing a psalm. Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts (stand 46)Its finished for the time being. PAN Amsterdam just closed its doors. As always, the fair, however buzzing, was over before we knew it and as always, gallery owners and visitors are happy, either with their sales or with their discoveries. In this respect, I can reveal that the painting (at ) I told you about in my earlier article on PAN 2026 will probably go to the Amsterdam Museum, and that in any case, the painting will stay in the Netherlands.
As to my own discoveries, there are a lot of them. First of all, a confession: I love horses. I admire their strength, their elegance, their humanity , their beauty. I have a weakness for Chinese horses in particular those made of ceramic or wood, of course. So, at Paul Ruitenbeeks stand (135), my eye was caught by this horse. It dates from the Tang dynasty, so its over a thousand years old, and yet as pristine as if it came right out of the artists studio. This statuette represents a tianma, a celestial horse these were horses from the West, and very popular with the upper classes in those days. In its ceramic form, it was placed in funerary monuments. Here, the animal seems to be waiting patiently for its rider though ready to trot away any moment. Its varnish is impeccable, surprising after so many centuries. Yes, definitely, I liked this horse.
Cheval tianma (dynastie Tang, Xe s)Encensoir en porcelaine (XVIIIe s).But its not even Ruitenbeeks greatest treasure. That is a lilac-colored porcelain censer, dating from the eighteenth century. It rests elegantly on three legs, and it looks perfectly smooth. You are tempted to touch it, to see if it is as soft as it looks A piece for connoisseurs
Starting from Paul Ruitenbeeks stand, I first visited a few safe bet stands, such as Albricht (103) and collection of paintings by the Dutch Impressionists Isaac Israls and George H. Breitner, Israels represented mainly by his portraits of elegant women, Breitner by his portraits of his city, Amsterdam, and its many building sites at the turn of the twentieth century, it was expanding and being modernised.
At the Daatselaar gallery (40), paintings by Israels, but also by the Dufy brothers (yes, Raoul had a younger brother, Jean), as well as by (among many others) Jean-Pierre Cassigneul (born in 1935), and then one of the few women among the nineteenth centurys painters, Henriette Ronner (ne Knip, 1821-1909). Ronner, who was born into a family of artists, is best known for her portraits of cats, and indeed, there are two of them here. Two paintings depicting kittens, balls of down in the middle of a game. Its adorable, and at the same time, its considered a bit of a minor subject. But in her time, Ronners paintings were highly prized this is how she supported her family, while her husband took care of the administration. It was only in the twentieth century that people began to disdain this kind of subject, and Ronners work took a back seat, to be rediscovered today like the works of so many other women artists
I wonder if the same was true of Steinlens famous cats (Galerie Stylo, n0 93). Of course, we know him mainly for his posters and illustrations, with a lot of cats. Was or is his art considered a minor art (Thats a real question I dont know the answer.)
All of a sudden, it occurred to me: there are a lot animals in this fair! Of course, they have always been represented in paintings especially birds and other animals about to go into a meal, living or dead or exotic animals. But what I see at this fair is a little different I see all kinds of animal sculptures and often they have a somewhat weird, disturbing side, especially in texture. Subsidiary question: has taxidermy become a recognised artistic skill I think I have seen several sculptures in which either taxidermy played a role, or made with materials that seem to imitate skin, or hair
This was particularly clear at the booth of Jaski. Among Jaskis protgs are Les Deux Garons (Michel Vanderheijden van Tinteren (1965) and Roel Moonen (1966)). Their animal sculptures are often made, at least in part, using taxidermy. They also use other techniques, but the result is often the same: they make animals you want both to touch and to push away. I knew their work, at least in part but now, their animals seem to become even more human , and therefore more touching as well as disturbing.
Les Deux Garons are not the only artists to make a somewhat disturbing kind of animal sculptures, far from it. It begins with the gorilla at the entrance. I wouldnt feel at ease if I met him somewhere
But there were also charming animals at this fair, even in contemporary art. Take Erik Buijs sculptures (1970). His little fellows and doggies may be a tat Charlie Brown-ish, worrying, wondering whats going on you would like to comfort them, to take them in your arms, whatever their size or material (Huub Hannen gallery, 57). They are human but not scary
A work by Pim Palsgraaf. Galerie NL=USAnd finally, I want to mention an artist, Pim Palsgraaf (1979) whose work has nothing to do with animals and is in my eyes not sad or disturbing. On the contrary, though he draws his materials from places in decline, abandoned factories, buildings in ruins. Pim Palsgraaf works with recycled materials, wood, metals. He makes something new out of it, a work of art, sculpture or three-dimensional picture, an intriguing object you want to watch from every angle and that might give one hope, since that what was thrown out is transformed into a work of art. (NL=US Gallery, stand 45).
PAN 2026 is finished, we will have to wait until November 2027 for a new version. But next week will be Amsterdam Art Week (many galleries will be taking part), in December the Affordable Art Fair, also in Amsterdam, and next spring the Rotterdam Art Fair, not to mention TEFAF, the largest art fair in Europe (Maastricht, March 2027), or the fairs and other cultural events in Antwerp and Brussels
L'argile m'inquite
Petite figure anime au creux de ma main. I.A sur modelage argile noire chamotte
I think I'm reaching the end of the Plankton modeling stage. Converted the SDF model to a mesh to add and refine the hands. Hands can be modeled in SDF, but usually require a lot of hassle to avoid the fingers blending together.
Used pure black and white vertex colors to serve as a material mask.
Modeling Plankton from Spongebob, using the Chisel SDF add-on for Blender.
Salut ma chre communaut,
Me voil mon sympo
Je suis trs contente de ma participation ce premier symposium d'arts visuels aux galeries Joliette. L'organisation tait au poil. De grandes flicitations et un immense merci Mme Maude-Erica Desjardins, M. Michel Lebrun et leur quipe.
J'ai aussi eu la chance d'avoir la visite d'une personne de mon rseau ici. Je me sens tjrs honore que vous preniez de votre temps pour venir me voir Gratitude !
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Forgotten Grace.
Albertis *Warrior with Drawn Sword*: a marvelous depiction of a classical nude warrior, reflecting the heroic ideals admired in the Age of Napoleon.
Can iron learn to flee
A rabbit sculpture welded from heavy, rusted iron chains sits peacefully on a bed of green moss in a sunlit forest.
le lopard est une fleur
Leopard Figurine. Mesopotamia. c. 3300-2900 BC
tags : le vide des ocelles, grlopard,
Simply a magic place.
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The Unbearable Beauty of Loving Someone You Cannot Save
Standing before Rodins Christ and Mary Magdalene, I didnt see religion carved into marble. I saw humanity. I saw compassion. I saw the unbearable beauty of loving someone you cannot saveand the quiet truth that sometimes all we can do is stay, hold them, and refuse to let them suffer alone.More from Cleveland Common Energy
When I was at the library in Cleveland I stopped in a reading garden between the two big library buildings. In it were a number of small sculptures, but the enormous size, bold colours and braille on this one really caught my eye. I went looking for a plaque telling about the details and found the following info:
Common Energy seeks to provide the community with a message of positivity, inclusivity, and love. In the midst of a volatile political climate it is crucial to practice tolerance, compassion, and kindness toward ourselves and others. The inspiration for Common Energy is based on Tibetan prayer wheels, cylindrical wheels inscribed with Buddhist mantras on the surface. This wheel is based loosely on the Buddhist phrase Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu, or, may all beings be happy and free. Interacting with the prayer wheels simply requires the act of spinning the cylinders in order to send positive messages out to the world.
Native to Northeast Ohio, studied ceramics at The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (MFA 2009) and Bowling Green State University (BFA 2004). She has spent the last several years making large-scale installations that examine materiality and production using porcelain clay. The unifying theme throughout Laurens work is creating a transformative experience for those who encounter her installations or public pieces.
I love the spirit behind this. If there was ever a time it was needed in the US its now.
Perseus and Medusa: admire Antonio Canovas masterpiece at the Vatican Museums. This striking sculpture brings the legendary myth to life through remarkable detail and elegance.
Sculptures and Street Art Figures Having a Bad Day (8 Photos)
A statue delivers an imaginary slap, a giant head gives up, and even a chalk creature brings its own raincloud. Eight photos for one of those days.Am Franziskuswanderweg bei Sand in Taufers, Ahrntal, Sdtirol.
Most people probably dont notice there is a child hugging the lion, unless the light is just right.
Fear Not by Charles Pate, Jr.
Jean LANIAU (1931 - 2024) - Papillon, 1993
Anna Coleman Ladd, The Sculptor Who Created Lifelike Masks For Soldiers Disfigured In World War I
By Joseph Williams
Before the widespread use of reconstructive surgery, Anna Coleman Ladd used her artistic talents to create dozens of masks for American and French veterans who had been disfigured in World War I.
'Primavera', great piece of recycled steel by Rafael San Juan in HavanaSeptember & October 2026, update on Transformation in Motion:
The large yellow mould for *St. Sebastian with Birds* now has its own transport cage.
More than a practical solution, the cage becomes part of the work itself connecting protection, captivity and freedom. It holds the mould for a sculpture that will eventually be left to the birds.
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This rather brilliant grotesque is set into a wall in front of the former Superintendent's House in Overtoun Park in Rutherglen, just to the south of Glasgow.
Les sculptures de bois flott de Debra Bernier
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Madonna del Sasso by Lorenzetto, located inside the Pantheon in Rome, Italy. Commissioned by the painter Raphael for his own tomb.
The Head of John the Forerunner 18th century
One of the times where I used digital coloring to come up with a few versions of possible outcomes. the bottom row is the actual process and final result.
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Torso of Michel Auge: This is Troy Capertons 2019 reproduction of Torse of Michel Auge, based on a photograph by Raymond Voinquel. It reimagines the photographed figure as a sculptural study of the human form.
"Neil Photographing Mount Rushmore"Now that some sanity has returned to the US, I'm starting to post art again. These are some of my projects from the last few years, some in pixels, some in the 3rd dimension. I do not use AI. I'm retired from a 40-year career in freelance illustration, but I'll never retire from art.
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Art Made From Knives, Tires and Other Everyday Things (10 Photos)
A wheelbarrow farmer, a watering-can downspout, a tire elephant, a knife angel and more: ten works made from ordinary things.Framed by rings and winter trees a two-faced figure watching both ways at once.
Midwest 2013
RoadTrip
Bronze Bust of Marcus Aurelius, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
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