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Huge Sculptures
Status: Real
Tamakia Gant asks: "Are these real? They look so amazing!!!"Yeah, they are pretty cool. And they are real (real sculptures, not real people!) They're the work of Australian hyper-realist sculptor Ron Mueck. According to the Wikipedia entry about him, "Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images."
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Categories: Art Posted by Alex on Wed Apr 26, 2006 |
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I'm pretty sure I've read in an article that Mueck isn't just limited to really big sculpters. I'm sure I remember a picture of a a tiny old woman curled up in bed who looked so lifelike but she was small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
He's really an amazing artist.
Posted by Nettie in Perth, Western Australia on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 06:00 AM
He's really an amazing artist.
*sigh*
I've looked everywhere and can't find the picture I was talking about. Maybe it wasn't Mueck's work, ir it's more likely I've lost my mind and imagined the whole thing
Posted by Nettie in Perth, Western Australia on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 06:20 AM
I've looked everywhere and can't find the picture I was talking about. Maybe it wasn't Mueck's work, ir it's more likely I've lost my mind and imagined the whole thing
Were you thinking of this one...
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/001987.php
...or perhaps you'd mixed up that sculpture and this one...
http://www.herner-netz.de/Sammlung-2005-220705_/sammlung-2005-220705_.html
Posted by David B. on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 07:28 AM
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/001987.php
...or perhaps you'd mixed up that sculpture and this one...
http://www.herner-netz.de/Sammlung-2005-220705_/sammlung-2005-220705_.html
Sorry, links should be...
Posted by David B. on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 07:29 AM
Yep, it's the first one. But it doesn't look very small in that picture and I'm sure it is...Oh well, thanks for that David!
Posted by Nettie in Perth, Western Australia on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 07:41 AM
According to
http://cybermuse.beaux-arts.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/acquisitions/2001-2002/mueck_text_e.jsp
Old Woman is 24 x 94.5 x 56 cm, and the pedestal 100.3 x 94.5 x 56 cm, so the whole thing is less than a meter (yard) long. She'd look small beside a child (and I remember a picture staged that way, too).
Posted by rich in Ottawa, Ontario on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 03:56 PM
http://cybermuse.beaux-arts.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/acquisitions/2001-2002/mueck_text_e.jsp
Old Woman is 24 x 94.5 x 56 cm, and the pedestal 100.3 x 94.5 x 56 cm, so the whole thing is less than a meter (yard) long. She'd look small beside a child (and I remember a picture staged that way, too).
OMG! It's so real!
If no actual people were taken along the sculpture, it would be hard to notice OwO
Posted by Jellyfish Marine on Thu Apr 27, 2006 at 08:23 PM
If no actual people were taken along the sculpture, it would be hard to notice OwO
I particularly like the last one. Who's real, and who's not?
Posted by Accipiter on Fri Apr 28, 2006 at 02:15 AM
What the last photo doesn't show is the relative scales. Try...
(Best I could find). This guy is good!
Posted by David B. on Fri Apr 28, 2006 at 08:31 AM
(Best I could find). This guy is good!
It's amazingly real, almost scary.
Why world famous wax museums don't hire him to make figures as real as this, in normal size?
Posted by t.kurione in France on Sat Apr 29, 2006 at 05:30 PM
Why world famous wax museums don't hire him to make figures as real as this, in normal size?
I've seen his work before (he was a guest artist at the Andy Warhol Museum). He had a piece that is a giant newborn-baby, complete with umbilical cord and everthing, positioned right in front of the elevator so the doors open and BANG--giant baby right in front of you!
Posted by Lea on Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 02:24 AM
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