Sculpture "Little Polar Bear" (1923-1933), artificial marble
Sculpture "Little Polar Bear" (1923-1933), artificial marble
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museum replica | certificate | artificial marble | patinated | size 15 x 26 x 7 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 1.4 kg
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Sculpture "Little Polar Bear" (1923-1933), artificial marble
François Pompon (1855-1933) contributed significantly to the fame of Auguste Rodin's sculpture studio for 15 years. He developed his distinctive style and, with his Polar Bear, created the unsurpassed prototype of an animal sculpture that simultaneously exudes power and modernity. Pompon created this sculpture in different sizes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art places the Polar Bear at the centre of its collection as a milestone of modern sculpture.
Original: Marble, 1923-1933, among others Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon and Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Replica made of polymer-bonded marble, hand-patinated. Comes with a certificate of authenticity. Size 15 x 26 x 7 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 1.4 kg.
The style of Impressionism, which emerged in French painting around 1870, owes its name to Claude Monet's landscape 'Impression, Soleil Levant'. After initial rejection, it began a veritable triumphal procession.
Painters such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir and others created motifs from everyday life, urban and landscape scenes in bright, natural light.
Impressionism can be seen as a reaction to academic painting. The emphasis was not on content with its strict rules of painting structure, but on the object as it appears at any given moment, in an often random cut out. The reality was seen in all its variety of colours in natural lighting. The Studio painting was replaced by open-air painting.
Through the brightening of the palette and the dissolution of firm contours, a new approach to colour emerged. In many cases, the colours were no longer mixed on the palette but side by side on the canvas so that the final impression lies in the eye of the viewer with a certain distance. In "Pointillism", (with painters such as Georges Seurat or Paul Signac) this principle was taken to the extreme.
Outside France, Impressionism was taken up by painters such as Max Slevogt, Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth in Germany, and by James A. M. Whistler in the United States.
However, Impressionism was only expressed to a limited extent in the art of sculpture. In the works of Auguste Rodin, who is considered one of the main representatives, a dissolution of surfaces is evident, in which the play of light and shadow is included in the artistic expression. Degas and Renoir created sculptures as well.
Marble powder is polymer-bonded. Artificial marble is characterised by a fine white surface that appears very similar to marble.
A true-to-the-original reproduction of an artwork in the same size and with the best possible material and colour uniformity.
The mould is usually taken directly from the original so that the replication reproduces even the finest details. After casting the replication, using the most appropriate method, the surface is polished, patinated, gilded or painted according to the original.
A replication of ars mundi is a recognizable copy of the original.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, in bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.