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The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies.
An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at .
Oscar Wilde.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies.
Le Corbusier.
"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view."
"Why?"
"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us. And yet I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream -- I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal-- to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be."
Oscar Wilde.
33 comments:
Wow great pose ! I'm sure it's gonna be awesome. I've got some coat hangers if you need for the next ones ;)
Man oh man, I'm lovin' your sketch sculpts!!
Looking great! hope to see how she develops.
Wicked!!
DAMN....
Makes me wanna sculpt again.
Great stuff.
P
VEry Cool Alberto!!!
Dig the back end shot : )
ROCK ON!!!!!!!!
Best,
Rodney
Such a great, dynamic pose. Would love to know what kind of clay you use, if you haven't mentioned that already.
Looks Great!!!
Where did you get the little gun?
brilliant! Wonderful shapes in this.
lookin' pretty f'in' sweet
Chris, Bobby, Kei, Rodney, Pedro, Kristen, Tooninator: Thank you for your kind comments.
Reynes: Heh, heh!
Wyahangas are the best!
BTW, I did not get your last email until today. I sent you the books last week, you should be getting them any day now.
Meesimo: Sorry, that's as far as she went. I've already squashed her and began a new skelpt.
Mike Feeney: The gun belongs to Platoon Leader, Chip Hazard of the Commando Elite. :D
alexkirtoon: I use 4 lbs. of Roma Plastilina No. 2 Grey-Green, which I mixed with a bit of red Plastilina someone gave me a while ago. You can order this wonderful stuff online, from THE SCULPTURE HOUSE.
Besides the tools you see in the picture, I have also used a hairpin, the tip of col-erase pencils, a box cutter blade and dental floss. They don't call me freakin' McGiver for nothing :p
Por primera vez en mucho tiempo: Alberto me has dejado sin palabras, sin chistes, ni tonterías de las mias.
Hermano eres un genio. Todo un Maestro.
Un fuerte abrazo.
Gracias David. Un abrazo para vos.
You are really great Sir, I like your work. & great style
Much obliged, Pravin.
In case you didn't get my last email : thank you for the Shane's books, they are GREAT !
I'm glad you like them. My pleasure, indeed.
Awesome how you transfer your drawing style to sculpting!!
This is always a great place to stop by. Wonderful work as usual, and very entertaining too :)
Amaroo: Thanks for visiting (and for buying so many books) next time you order I'll send you a free book or maybe two.
btw Love your pug-blog, or should I call it "plug"?
:)
Antonio Radovcic : seems like a natural progression, there isn't much difference between sculpting and drawing, at least not in my head.
Thank you for commenting.
Cheers!
—A
i would love to see your process through time-lapse video making these. wow. amazing stuff.
-s.
Otro abrazo para ti, Carnal. Estoy cambiando mi blog de dirección.
Espero estes de tu Alergia, y de esos problemillas bien. Quien dice problemaillas dice mejora sustancial en la economia familiar. jejejejejejeje.
Espero tus noticias.
Hey Al,
Thought you and the others would be interested in this
http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/
-Rodney
sal iovine: Great idea, I'll do that next.
Dramiro: Espero que te hayas divertido en tu cumpleaños
Rodney Dollah: Mueck is crazy talented, I have one of his books. I'm not big on ultra realism of any kind but one cannot help but be moved emotionally by his work, I think it goes beyond merely mimicking reality. Thanks for the link, great find!
love yours sculpts! really awesome!
Grande Alberto... tudo bem?
Excelente trabalho!! PARABÉNS!!!!
Ganhou mais um fã!
Forte abraço...
Anderson Kocis.
damn al! you're always evolving and growing as an artist...always amazing work!!
jeremy Charpentier & ANDERSON KOCIS: Muito obrigado.
Jason Quiñones: That's nothing, you should see my origami :D
Thanks for the kind words, Jason, good to hear from you.
Sweet! Great work.
these sclups are really cool.
Man, this is some FANTASTIC sculpting! It never crossed my mind to use a hanger for the wire to pose the characters, and I have plenty of it!
What clay do you use? I use plastiline but it never dries out (and I don't like to make the mold) and SuperSculpey is way too expensive...
Wonderfully dirty beauty
Love it!
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