My blogger friend, soubriquet, has pointed me to one of the greats of 20th century ceramics (a Canadian too!).
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Marilyn Levine's Ceramic Works
My blogger friend, soubriquet, has pointed me to one of the greats of 20th century ceramics (a Canadian too!).
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Incredible, ha?
ReplyDeleteShe became attracted to the textures of old, well-used leather and sought to recreate them,she lerned that by rolling out clay, sandwiched in sheets of plastic, she could create the wrinkles, she'd pass those sheets through a sewing machine to make real stitch-marks.
What she was doing was the clay equivalent of photo-super-realism in painting. She actively sought out beaten-up old boots as her models.
The guy in your earlier post, Kang S.Lee, has, it would appear, taken a mould off a real sneaker, and then in various ways modified casts from that mould. In no place, in those pictures does he demonstrate, to my view, mastery of the material or originality. Marilyn Levine, on the other hand, demonstrates both. When she first did this, it was totally new territory, hers were the first footsteps in the sand. And hers are still the only ones that matter, she made this territory her own.
In a book I have from 1974, there's a sculpture of a row of firemen's boots, but they're all glazed in a gloss shiny black, whereas Marilyn's pieces strove to imitate the surfaces of polished or scuffed leather exactly. All using techniques she had to invent for herself.
Those Canadian Marilyns,wow, eh?
Incredible! Thanks, soubriquet, for the info too. Fascinating.
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The Middle Ages
Check out this wood artist in Venice Italy:
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