Medieval sculptures known as stand on Mount Kremenets overlooking Izium in Ukraines Kharkiv region. One was damaged during Russias occupation of the area in 2022. Marushchak has since arranged the removal and safe storage of these and many similar sculptures across eastern and southern Ukraine.
Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian
Saad Qureshi utilizes scale as a way of referencing how our perceptions of spaces and places change over time.
In Ukraine, a team of great might,
Rescues art from the chaos and fight.
Amidst war's relentless barrage,
They bravely dodge the barrage,
Preserving culture day and night.
Rising Sun
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'Heroic Proportions: Michelangelos David'
looking back on how the return to colossal presented a paradigm of masculine beauty & aligned Humanism with Greek & Biblical stories...
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Ukraines death-defying art rescuers
Infinite Column, Constantin Brancusi.
This work, in Trgu Jiu, Romania, stands 96 feet high Brancusi said it represented the sacrifice of deaths from war.
In the 1950's, officials considered destroying it for the scrap metal
In 1996, the World Monuments Fund bankrolled a restoration of this magisterial work by the iconic modernist sculptor of "Bird in Space" and "The Kiss."
Jusqu'au 25 aot, 42e dition du Symposium de Baie Saint-Paul:
On se fait toujours expliquer la crise climatique par des discours mdiatiques ou scientifiques, dplore Anne Beauchemin, directrice artistique.
On a donc voulu cder la parole aux artistes, pour quils donnent une forme concrte aux donnes abstraites, quils touchent limaginaire et inspirent des prises de conscience.
A colossal portrait, possibly of Marcia, mother of the .
"Girafa Coqueta"
"Flirty Giraffe" by Josep Granyer in Rambla de Catalunya and Av. Diagonal
Barcelona
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from my daily photo blog
From the ar(t)chive
Isometric 3D cover illustration for a 2005 digital camera review issue of the Dutch Webwereld computer magazine.
Sculpture: the art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things
- French: sculpture
- German: die Plastik
- Italian: scultura
- Portuguese: escultura
- Spanish: escultura
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Una comisin que termin hace poco de unos pendientes de mantarraya.
A manta ray earrings comission that I have just ended.
El Portador de La Antorcha, alzndola al cielo de la calle Princesa.
Skull bomb 3D icon, modeled and rendered in MagicaCSG.A short impression video of my skull bomb icon MagicaCSG scene.
I've made use of MagicaCSG's Avoid blend mode to embed the skull into the bomb. The skull is a grouped Boolean, to avoid each skull component being blended separately into the bomb.
Skull bomb 3D icon, modeled and rendered in MagicaCSG.
A short 3D scene impression video will follow in this thread
Vite ! L'exposition Hey! Cramique.s (Halle Saint Pierre) se terminera mercredi 14 aot !
Having some fun with 3Doodling in MagicaCSG
More work-in-progress updates will follow in this thread, as usual.
Stap door de muur naar een andere wereld, een volledig blauwe grot... adembenemend Step through the wall into another world, an all-blue cave breathtaking.
Levi van Veluw in SingerLaren
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From the ar(t)chive
Isometric 3D cover illustration about desktop search engines, for a 2005 special issue of the Dutch Webwereld computer magazine.
I used a screenshot of my desktop in the illo. It reflects the software I used at the time, ranging from 3ds Max to Winamp.
I love this bat under one of the magnificent oriel windows of the former Glasgow Institite for the Deaf and Dumb on Prospccthill Road. Designed by Salmon, Son and Ritchie, and designed in a stunning French Gothic style, it was built in 1867.
St. Lorenz Kirche, Nrnberg
Historic village wants 'mini Stonehenge' to honour the region's mining history
By Keely Johnson
Locals at Catherine Hill Bay have salvaged parts of a century-old timber mining jetty. Now they want to see it used in a Stonehenge-like sculpture for the town.
Hans Op de Beeck, at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Sweden.Un cureuil
I liked this tucked in between at yesterday.
Silo
concrete lamp
2024
The main body of this table/desk lamp has a transitional surface composed from an arrangement of multiple geometric shapes. Recessed surfaces and open voids between the three main ribs guide light right out of Silos hart.
W 16.5 cm / 6 Inches
D 7.2 cm / 2 Inches
H 24.5 cm / 9 5/8 Inches
W +/- 3.3 Kg / 7.3 lbs
Installation by JR Artist
Story: "Eight years ago, I was invited by the Rio Olympics to be artist in residence. it allowed me for the first time to build a project using scaffolding at the scale of the city. We installed the image of three athletes in movement at a monumental scale in different parts of Rio. Actually, the athletes were not part of the selection because they were injured or because their performances were not good enough. The idea was to insist on the beauty of the gesture, not on the medals. We also took part in the opening ceremony with an inside Photo Booth truck printing of portraits of athletes from all over the world.
Today the Olympics open in my city of Paris, and I was very honored to bear the torch two weeks ago at the Louvre where I have so many incredible memories.
Lets see these Olympics as a celebration of universality, as a place where all athletes have the same objectives, the same vision, the same dreams."
Via EYE FB page
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Stylized illustration for a 2007 edition of the Dutch Volkskrant newspaper, about digital communication in business.
St. Lorenz Kirche, Nrnberg
Looking at Alexander Calder's "Eagle" in the Olympic Sculpture Park on the Seattle waterfront. It is repainted quite frequently because sunlight, marine air, rain etc. are so harsh on it. Then it looks splendid for a month or so and not so long afterwards it will need to be painted again. And so on. Note the perfect crow placement on one of the beams.
Saint George and the Dragon on the Lord Roberts Monument in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow. Erected in 1916, it's a copy of an original monument in Calcutta by Harry Bates. The model of Saint George and the Dragon was stolen from the Kelvingrove monument in the 1970s, so it's unclear if this is a replica or if the original was returned and replaced.