Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Raindrops Tree by C. Jere

 































"Raindrops Tree" was designed 60 years ago. The floral-looking sculpture of "C. Jere '- a synonym for the California designer Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels - brings a bit of nature into the room. The precious piece combines shape, material selection, elegance, stability and last but not least reliability.  
The dynamic sculpture with the floating, handmade brass leaves is now being produced again by C. Jere Studio in limited edition. 
Markanto.de, about 2450

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

no quiero que te vayas

source vintage russian fashion magazine

Led Balloons


Photo of the 2008 display of three works in the Cantor Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “They are mischievously meaningful works. With its pneumatic, sausagelike parts, “Balloon Dog (Yellow)” is a sly Trojan Horse: it seems innocent but is loaded with aesthetic and erotic perversity. “Sacred Heart (Red/Gold)” acidly comments on the commercial debasement of emotional and religious experience. “Coloring Book” reflects the youth-obsessed infantilism of modern culture and society.” (Source - NYT)

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Where is this place ?

I have had this picture in a folder on my desktop for a while and never found out where this place is. Any ideas ?
update: My brother just enlightened me, the sculpture is near Lucerne in Switzerland, called the "Dying Lion" by Bertel Thorvaldsen and a memorial for the famous Swiss Guards.
For all you German Readers out here... or use the Translation Button on my blog.
geboren: 13. November 1768 in Kopenhagen gestorben: 24. März 1844 in Kopenhagen
Hauptmeister des Hochklassizismus, Schüler von Abildgaard. 1797-1838 in Rom, dann in Kopenhagen tätig. Neben A. Canova der größte Bildhauer des Klassizismus. Von 1797 bis 1838 hielt sich Thorvaldsen in Rom auf. Sein Werk ist von antiken Elementen bestimmt; das antike Gleichmaß wirkt aber oft starr und leblos. Trotzdem waren seine Arbeiten sehr populär: Der Christus für die Frauenkirche in Kopenhagen (1819) ist in zahllosen Kopien verbreitet worden.
Hauptwerke: Reliefs: "Entführung der Briseis" (1803-05, Thorvaldsen-Museum); "Tanz der Musen auf dem Helikon" (1804), "Taufe Christi" (1805, Kopenhagen, Glyptothek); Fries des Alexanderzuges für den Quirinalspalast (heute dort Gipsmodell, Original in der Villa Carlotta am Comer See); Rundbilder: "Nacht und Morgen" (1814-15); Gruppe der drei Grazien (nach 1800, Thorvaldsen-Museum); Jason (1802/03, Thorvaldsen-Museum, Kopenhagen); "Der sterbende Löwe" (Denkmal der Schweizergarde, 1821, Luzern, nach Thorvaldsens Modell aus der Felswand gehauen); Grabdenkmal Pius' VII. (1831, Rom, Peterskirche); Schillerdenkmal in Stuttgart (1839); Kopernikus-Denkmal für Warschau; Poniatowski-Denkmal für Krakau; Reiterdenkmal Kurfürst Maximilians für München (1839).