Sculpture "The Son of Man", cast
Sculpture "The Son of Man", cast
Quick info
cast | size 13 x 10.5 x 7.5 cm (h/w/d)
Detailed description
Sculpture "The Son of Man", cast
Resin figure after Magritte's famous painting "Le fils de l'homme" from 1964. Size 13 x 10.5 x 7.5 cm (h/w/d).
Customer reviews
About René Magritte
1898-1967
"An image is not to be confused with something tangible. Can you stuff my pipe? No, it is just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture ‘This is a pipe’, I’d have been lying! The image of a slice of bread and jam slice is assuredly not edible" said the Belgian artist René Magritte, one of the best-known representatives of Surrealism, about his art.
His paintings have an inherent dreamy mysteriousness, although they mostly depict everyday objects. Magritte drew on a personal stock of recurring subjects such as the apple, the pipe, the bowler, the curtain, the dove and the blue sky with white clouds.
Sculptural representation of person's head and shoulders.
Collective term for all casting processes that ars mundi carries out with the help of specialised art foundries.
Stone casting
Similar to artificial marble, with the difference that the substitute stone in powder form is used instead of marble powder.
Bonded Bronze (Cold-Cast-Bronze)
Bronze powder is polymer-bonded. Special polishing and patination techniques give the surface of the casting an appearance similar to the bronze.
Imitation Wood
In order to guarantee absolute fidelity to the original, an artificially manufactured imitation wood is used as a base material that features typical wood characteristics: density, workability, colour and surface structure.
Ceramic Mould Casting
Ceramic mould casting usually requires the use of casting clay, which is then fired and optionally glazed. Instead of the usual rubber moulds, plaster moulds are often used in ceramic casting and porcelain production.
Cast Bronze (Lost-Wax Casting)
For the cast bronze, the thousand-year-old lost-wax technique is used. It's the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
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.
A movement in contemporary art that developed in Europe and America. Following Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis, it seeks the actual reality in the subconscious. Surrealism exploits dreams and intoxicating experiences, as well as hypnotic states as a source of artistic inspiration.
Famous artists and sculptors of this movement are Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró and René Magritte.