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Thom Puckey - Marble Sculptures, by Coach on Aug 22, 2010 0:03:18 GMT 1, This guy is interesting.
Marble life size sculptures.
From his website:
marble figures, life size, female, nude, formally posed, and with attributes in the form of weapons (modern firearms and knives of varying types and sizes). My techniques are anachronistic, following closely those of the late 18th / early 19th century. The sculpture is modelled in clay; it is cast in plaster; the plaster is copied over into marble. The basic formality of the sculptures is that of the period just following neo-classicism. Anti-baroque, a strong feeling of formal stability, very 'posed' and composed, with nothing portrayed within the composition which could not in some way or another happen in real life. In this last sense I can accept the epithet 'realism'. The formal and stylistic qualities of sculptors like Canova, Bartolini, Houdon, Dupré etc. have had their influence on my work. I admire in particular the manner of translating flesh into marble in the work of these sculptors, something which later lost its way amongst the academicism of the late 19th century, and deserves to be restored. The softness and semi-transparency of good marble has a way of almost becoming flesh, in a way as much beautiful as it is obscene. It is also an ideal material for achieving exquisite contrasts between hard and soft, a quality I use more and more both in the figures and in the attributes round them. Many, though not all of the poses in my work are borrowed and adapted from sculpture and painting sources; a good example being 'A.V. with RPG-7 and Knife' which was adapted from Ingres' painting, 'Oedipus and the Sphinx'.

The sculptures are incrdibly good imo

See hwat you think.

www.thompuckey.com/index.php?/works/2010-figure-falling-backwards-with-2-carbines/