Larry Dickman
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@vikare06
Also the focus on the hyper-detailing seems to be a mask for missing skills. I've tutored many young sculptors, and without fail they obsess over little details instead of the basic forms and anatomy. That alone makes these works feel amateur. That hand looks like a bloated glove
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For my artist mutuals. This is a tremendous resource for the female form. By the great Paul Richer, whose book Artistic Anatomy should already be a part of your reference library.
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@FendeVilliers
Lots of details impress the masses. In marble it's just ugly. Looks like cheap plaster, no luster.
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This got rejected for a big exhibit. I'm dumbfounded as it fit the theme perfectly.
Judged anonymously so I have no idea why it wasn't chosen. There's always a sting felt at times like this. Life as an artist can be challenging to the psyche. Not a good fit if one is too uptight
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Too heavy-handed, both in the blatancy of the message and the rendering. The concept is sound, but it needed a more skilled artist who understands subtlety.
Another example of why many say the RW can't make art. This will only appeal to pro-lifers.
The statue represents a guardian angel who is crying over the crib of the baby it was supposed to guard but the baby was aborted.
#ProLife
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Closeup of the male figure's portrait for my sculpture, ETERNAL POMPEII.
Oil clay for bronze, 1/5 life-size.
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This nonsense won't last much longer. There is a growing desire for true fine art and countless amazing artists worldwide dedicated to creating it.
A Renaissance is amassing, largely here on X. We're connecting with trad voices and will move the culture.
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Reposting as my engagement keeps going down. Only 178 views. Not sure how to get my posts to stay out there longer.
Closeup of the male figure's portrait for my sculpture, ETERNAL POMPEII.
Oil clay for bronze, 1/5 life-size.
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I've looked at many Memento Mori sculptures from antiquity and this one is by far the most haunting I've seen. The expression imparted to essentially a skull is magnificent.
Sadly the work is damaged, but its representation is deeply inspiring for my own versions of the theme.
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A couple new shots of my Conquistador Memento Mori. Taking a break from other projects and doing some additional detailing on the hair. 1/3 life-size.
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Isamu Noguchi Working on his plaster original - to be cast into Stainless Steel, 1940.
Would be cool to see
@FendeVilliers
work in this scale.
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Something novice artists usually miss is the depth of the planes of the human head. Because we see others usually from the front, it's easy to make a face too flat.
The prominence of the brow ridge can be strikingly severe on some. Here it's basically average, yet still evident.
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ETERNAL POMPEII clay for bronze. Doing some final refinements before taking this to my foundry tomorrow.
Going to have to get a better video setup that I can do when working alone.
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@ejdickson
Which conspiracies?
Russia collusion?
The peeing prostitute?
Hunter's laptop?
Vax injuries?
Ivermectin as horse paste?
Please, enlighten us.
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@Culture_Crit
There are no more ateliers for young artist's to learn from established fine craftsmen. No protege`s who can begin at age 12 like Michelangelo did.
Also, no patrons willing to shell out a million dollars for a piece like this to be made today.
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@LaocoonofTroy
You can see he was a heavy smoker by that dark stain on his mug.
But he was a good boy.
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When sculpting a female nude, I look at reference photos of naked models, usually very beautiful. As an artist I'm focused on seeing the anatomy beneath the skin. It's not enticing but academic, a tool. Breathing life into clay. This post explains it well.
Artistic nudity is holistic- it's not that the subject is made sexless, it's that whatever sexual element is involved in the piece is incorporated into a greater awareness of the human qua human
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@VDAREJamesK
Imagine being an American and envying countries in South America. But that's where we are. God bless this man and keep him safe from harm.
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@Klaus_Arminius
@SpeakerPelosi
It was this case that sent me down some big rabbit holes to places that are verboten to speak of, but from which I learned the truth about crime stats.
If we lived in a real society the names Christian and Newsom would be known by everyone.
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@FischerKing64
I don't think it will be close; I think Biden (or whomever the Dems run) will win handily.
It's going to be a rough four more years.
I'd love to be wrong, but I see not path to a Trump victory and guys like Posobeic and Bannon aren't helping.
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I doubt this is the same man he was yesterday. Threats are one thing, concerning but somewhat disconnected, theoretical.
I see the face of a man who cheated death who will seek true greatness, beyond his ambitions when he is elected again.
The new 'shot heard 'round the world.'
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@GraduatedBen
One of the few things we as a nation ought to demand from our government is stricter humane controls of our food supply animals.
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@_kruptos
Always love when so-called allies use regime language. According these types, anyone who cares as much about their own heritage as blacks, Jews or Latinos do is a supremacist.
We keep losing because those with the biggest voices are swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool.
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@vikare06
I saw a piece done by that sculptor a few years ago and hated it. He seems to have a decent understanding of form, but his finishing work is just ugly.
It's not aesthetic, not suited for marble work. He should just make those giant hideous silicone hyper-real figures. Tedious.
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@ConceptualJames
No need to be a perpetual Debbie Downer. Yeah, there's plenty of larpers wanting to claim this guy, but he seems like an okay dude, and quite talented. Black pills as far as the eye can see.
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Possibly my favorite commercial art piece I ever made. I still own the original work and may do a small run in real bronze one day.
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@_kruptos
When we bought our second house, the lender told us we could find something worth twice as much if we wanted to.
Happy to say we have zero debt, no mortgage, no car payments. Froze our credit years ago and pay only cash, except for one CC we pay off monthly.
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I was recently invited to attend an exclusive gathering of a group dedicated to rebuilding our culture. I cannot attend due to the location but I think the tide is shifting faster than I originally thought.
Stay salty, gents. Lots happening under the radar.
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@WardoftheStates
This archetype goes all the way back to my days of the late 70's/early 80's.
The fact that the leftists are trying to use these pix as ammunition is really quite amazing, totally tone deaf to normal people. But leftists aren't normal, so there's that.
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@Babygravy9
I was his age in the mid 80's. I didn't know anyone who acted like this. We just did what we needed to do and honestly life was what you made of it.
Can't relate, not even a little bit.
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Patina work from my trip to the foundry yesterday. There aren't many foundries capable of replicating the super fine details on a small figure like this. Couldn't be more pleased and my clients with will be thrilled. The craftsmen exceeded my expectations.
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As an American I love this flag. It's also a beautiful design. My ancestors came from many parts of Europe and the founders of my great nation traversed from across the pond to build this nation.
The UK natives deserve leaders who care as much as I do.
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@oldbooksguy
I live my life by this metric.
Bought an old church to convert to studio space for myself.
1st pic shows the entropy of what space often is: utilitarian, functional, dull.
2nd pic shows great bones of a once simple, beautiful structure.
Last pic shows my love of beauty.
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Other than the face, no other part of the figure displays as much emotion than the hand. Artists who play it safe, or don't give the hands in their work proper attention are ignoring a powerful element in art.
From my Memento Mori, the hand of a corpse.
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Often unconsidered by non sculptors is making work that can be cast for reproduction. I made a dozen different molds for this figure. Each mold also meant cutting apart elements of the piece, retooling them to fit with no visible attachments, etc.
Requires years of experience.
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@RamboVanHalen
Don't know who you are or why this post appeared on my TL, but I read it and connected with it. There's a heaviness in everything now, a millstone around our collective necks. We all feel it, like actual end times.
Going to follow you for a while and see how it works out.
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@markdeporque
@vikare06
Usually the sign of an artist who is deeply insecure, even if they pretend otherwise.
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I've decided to move forward with this piece. My ideas for subjects are varied in general, but something about this really calls to me now.
In light of our deviant culture, powerful unapologetic Christian art is vital. I'll post updates as I progress.
Finished bozzetto. I'll sit on it for a while and decide if I want to invest 2 months to sculpt and mold it. Sometimes ideas lose steam, so the clay sketch is time well invested.
Working title, "Impaling the Devil". Design will certainly be tweaked if I render it full-size.
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The body is like a landscape, undulating forms of emerging and submerging structures acting in harmony, flowing one into the other as a cohesive human machine. Novices tend to break apart forms to understand muscle groups, bones, etc. but must learn to coalesce those parts as one
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@giantgio
@MalteseAnna
It would be bad enough to take this stance privately; using it to virtue signal is evil. I learned all about people like her in M Scott Peck's book, PEOPLE OF THE LIE.
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@memeticsisyphus
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly."
- Barrack Obama
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country."
- Michele Obama
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A recent work by my brother Joe, and one of my favorites. Painted from life outdoors, known as Plein Air painting. Amazing skill to capture the light of a moment in time.
"Of Heaven and Earth" , 30x40 oil on canvas.
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Me as a young man when I played bass and thought my future was in music. Hard to imagine that life now, how different things would be.
Sculpture was my first passion from childhood. I fell into music and loved collaborating, but it was not meant to be. I still play bass, alone.
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@Pavldozer
Had a neighbor lady with clear developmental issues, also very sweet. She was so obsessed with getting to her job on time that she should would sometimes ring our doorbell and ask for a ride to work at 7am if her regular ride was late.
Took her many times. Salt of the earth.
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Another small sample of my work. I sculpted hundreds of figure over the last 30 years, but I don't have files of many of them.
#PortfolioDay2024
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To all the culture critics, yes there is some great modern work being made by some of us who take our craft seriously. Thank you tagging me.
If you all spent half as much time celebrating great works or promoting modern craftsmen as you do beating it about irrelevant shit, call me crazy, but maybe we'd be further along. Celebrate Vermeer, Bierstadt. Check out
@FendeVilliers
@PaqWilly
In short: shit or get off the pot
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Looks like Ozzy Osborne with wings, vomiting into a trash can after a bender.
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IG art is mostly filled with half-assed creators posting stupid short videos. The algorithm depresses photo content and the hashtag feature often does not function to gain reach.
I've had more inquiries here in less than a year than 2 years on IG. More artists should use X, IMO.
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@GraduatedBen
It only takes a few scalps for the rabble to skulk away and go back to screaming in their pillows.
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Quick small scale bozzetto for a possible new two figure project. This is just about composition, energy and balance to decide if I like the feel. Very loose anatomy as it's not essential at this stage. Six inches tall.
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@VDAREJamesK
My mom was an immigrant from Germany, came to the US in the 50's. I remember as a kid her telling me that Vatican 2 ruined the Mass.
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High feminine ratio, quite lovely. I personally find this region the most challenging when sculpting females. The proportional differences male v female alter every element in the connecting tissues with added fat reducing visibility of the anatomy.
Easier to paint than sculpt.
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Did you know raw bronze is this bright? Do you know how much work it takes to produce bronze castings?
This figure is hollow. To allow for the ceramic shell to fully encase it, the figure had to be cut at the chest into upper and lower pieces, then welded back together. 1/2
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@FischerKing64
I live in the Shenandoah Valley. I saw the polling places in 2016; they looked more like lines to get into a tractor pull than an election.
Despite the final count, Trump won here in 2016 until NOVA cooked the books. Same will happen this year.
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@Lady_Astor
I'm self-employed so I was able to watch the entire trial while I worked. Complete miscarriage of justice. Shameful.
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@Babygravy9
As a working sculptor for 30 years, I could tell you a hundred reasons why this sculpture is hideous, but I can boil it down to that it looks like it was made by a high schooler who got a C in art class.
It's so bad its unworthy of critique.
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Finished bozzetto. I'll sit on it for a while and decide if I want to invest 2 months to sculpt and mold it. Sometimes ideas lose steam, so the clay sketch is time well invested.
Working title, "Impaling the Devil". Design will certainly be tweaked if I render it full-size.
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I love this. Looks like it should be the cover for some midwest Industrial magazine from the 1950's. By my brother, Joe. "Northern Exposure" 28 x 40.
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@NotScottNewgent
This is oddly personal toward Riley. She has her fight and you have yours; different perspectives aimed at the same goal.
And this "entitled" woman is a world-class swimmer. Last I checked, that requires many years of hard work and dedication.
Prayers to you on your journey.
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@Trad_West_Art
The question that needs an answer is why this topic has suddenly become hot, 79 years after. Why are the talking heads defending it? Why now?
Something's afoot and it isn't about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Making art that counters the postmodern narrative should be subversive. This sculpture is a positive reflection of male strength, not a knee-jerk reactionary piece. The theme is inherently RW but not overtly RW.
Lead, don't preach. My 2 cents.
Iron Jaw, Broken Nose.
A study in perseverance. Beaten, but victorious, standing tall.
A positive reflection of the stoic unapologetic male. Art can send a message that refutes leftist ideas through allegory.
Oil clay for bronze, 1/2 life-size.
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My studio in stages from the same view. As it was when we bought it, during demolition and after renovations. I did all the work myself save plumbing and some electrical. My wife helped with the massive demo work including removing the entire plaster and lath ceiling.
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@_kruptos
Due to genetics, I grew to be tall with broad shoulders, blue eyes and a strong jaw. I didn't earn it, but it comes with many advantages.
Those advantages didn't come into play when I spent 80 hours a week learning my craft. They did help me sang a great wife though.
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Torso detail of the male figure in my sculpture Eternal Pompeii, a tribute to lives lost from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Clay for bronze.
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@Babygravy9
It's evidence from a crime. Public information. Family has ZERO say.
This is being withheld by the authourities for obvious reasons.
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My other Memento Mori sculpture. Part of a two figure piece I'm hoping to complete soon.
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@pegobry_en
That's exactly how it was intended. We're dealing with evil; no point in assuming anything else.
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Alfred Gilbert (English, late 18th/early 19th centuries) sculptor. I just found his work and it's tremendous. I'm left to wonder how many hundreds or thousands of other masters of art I have yet to discover.
Carved ivory and bronze. Stunning craftsmanship.
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Profile of my 2nd Conan sculpture which I think best shows the posture. A bit like a chicken strutting his stuff. Chest forward, arms tensed, head leaning in, ready for whatever is coming.
Purposefully male dominant stance without being overly dramatic. Momentum building.
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Profile shot of my Conan sculpture. Heavily inspired by Frazetta but the design is original.
Titled "Brutal", 14 inches tall.
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I had the chance to go to LA 30 years ago and work in SPFX, invited by Greg Nicotero after he saw my work at a horror convention.
I declined because I was newly married with a young daughter living in NJ. I think I would have done well with character design maybe for games too.
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@FamedCelebrity
Found this at a flea market decades ago for $3. Date on the back says 1930. No idea what it was for but it has a mounting bracket on the back. Bronze relief.
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