by my favourite sculpture
First I saw Ossip Zadkine’s De Poeet, then Tuumailua’s challenge to bloggers to post their favourite sculptures.
So here’s my choice of current favourite, especially one located in Vancouver: Magdalena Abakanowicz’ Vancouver Ancestors, posted a year ago. I’m wondering if it’s still there, if the city purchased it after the Biennial. The website mentions the auction but not the final results. I really hope it’s still there…
What is your favourite sculpture?
July 3, 2007 in Blogging, Other artists by Marja-Leena
Kiinnostava teos, herättää monenlaisia ajatuksia. Ja sitten nuo patsaiden varpaat!
Hei Tuima, kiitos vain hienosta haaste ideasta, ja linkitystä!
Wau, tämä on upea! En osaa määritellä, mikä ihme noissa kiehtoo, mutta niissä on sitä jotain!
Hei Elegia! Kiva kun kävit. Niinkuin aikaisemmassa postauksessa kirjoitin, olen kauan ihaillut tämä taitelijan töitä, ja oli niin jännää nähdä niitä täällä kotikaupungissani. Tykkään myös valitsemasi patsaista, sammakko on hauska!
An intriguing question, but I cannot at all narrow it down to one, or even a handfull. Jacob Epstein’s Jacob and the Angel which takes my breath away and gives me joy every time I see it? Anthony Caro’s Last Judgement with delights and intrigues and is so thought-provoking? Almost anything by Marino Marini, Elizabeth Frink, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Michaelangelo, Henry Moore, anonymous ancient Greeks, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, a lot of Richard Long, those glorious four Backs by Matisse, Picasso’s playful pieces, Kiki Smith, not to mention Abakanowicz, …. No, I cannot pin it down at all, glutton that I am!
Olga – in truth, I also have numerous favourites, many on your list! I’ve not had a lot of opportunities to see sculptures in real life, so when this came to Vancouver, I was thrilled to be right there, walking around it, touching it, and feeling its spirit. The physical experience of it was powerful and unforgettable. No book quite compares. And it was the most recent experience.
A comparable experience for me was to see many Michelangelos in Italy years ago.
Mielenkiintoinen teos. Tuo olisi hienoa nähdä “livenä”.
Hei Saaga! On hauska saada viestiä Suomesta. Ja tykkään valintasi, Sanna Koiviston patsaat.
Donatello’s David without a doubt.
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I’ve had a yen to own a Frank Dobson nude since seeing a small exhibition of 1930’s British sculpture in Cambridge. Not much online but found this – highly worked, very tactile, very beautiful
Anna, I remember that David from your blog on favourites. The second one, though…is a Moore, isn’t it? Or a Dobson in the Moore gallery?
It’s Dobson in the Moore gallery.
Strangely enough, I was just reading the Guardian Arts pages and came across this article – they’re cleaning David! He looks a bit brassy, but I guess that’s how Donatello made him. Good article with which I concur.
That is a good article, Anna, what timing! I didn’t know Donatello’s David was the first Renaissance nude (or I forgot). I think I saw it in Florence, as well as Michelangelo’s David before they cleaned that one.
Wow. Great sculpture. I’d have to think about what my favorites might be… Alas, no time right now. Maybe it’ll come to me.
leslee, I’m surprised you have time to write and read blogs right now!