Sculpture "Little Polar Bear" (1923-1933), artificial marble version
Sculpture "Little Polar Bear" (1923-1933), artificial marble version
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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 version
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.
Sculpture 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.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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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. Rather than emphasizing content with a structured composition, it focused on the subject as it appears in the moment, often in a seemingly random snapshot. The reality was seen in all its variety of colours in natural lighting. Outdoor painting replaced studio 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 placed side by side on the canvas, so that the final impression emerged 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.
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While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, 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.