Use our A-Z glossary of art terminology to learn about art, painting and sculpture words, phrases and terms
distortion of the human … Learn more Art Term Maquette A maquette is model
Use our A-Z glossary of art terminology to learn about art, painting and sculpture words, phrases and terms
distortion of the human … Learn more Art Term Maquette A maquette is model
Use our A-Z glossary of art terminology to learn about art, painting and sculpture words, phrases and terms
distortion of the human … Learn more Art Term Maquette A maquette is model
Use our A-Z glossary of art terminology to learn about art, painting and sculpture words, phrases and terms
distortion of the human … Learn more Art Term Maquette A maquette is model
Watch Phillip King in his studio as he works on his sculpture recoil
to try and make it ten times bigger, so my unit is going to be times ten of the model
Tate glossary definition for kinetic art: Art that depends on motion for its effects
1985 Little Death Machine (Castrated) Jake Chapman, Dinos Chapman 1993 Model
Tate glossary definition for kinetic art: Art that depends on motion for its effects
1985 Little Death Machine (Castrated) Jake Chapman, Dinos Chapman 1993 Model
Tate glossary definition for constructivism: Particularly austere branch of abstract art founded by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko in Russia around 1915
Part of the Show Machinery El Lissitzky 1923 Model for ‘Constructed Torso’
[Transcription/translation] A DIALOGUE WITH DEATH Death: (Skeleton in top-hat and overcoat walks into my studio) How do you do? Me: (Terrified and trembling, I try to speak but can’t make a sound.) Death: Why such horror, why such frightful fear, when you spend so much time preoccupied with me, when you’ve been drawing me and carrying me around in your thoughts since childhood? I’m flattered that you’ve never forgotten me and I’m almost inclined to believe that you’ve fallen in love with me and wanted to welcome me with… Me: (Interrupting) Get out, Death, get out! Death: Do calm down, …
Me: (Suddenly quite pacified and cheerful) So you’ve come to model for me?
Alan Durst (1883-1970) was born in Alverstoke, Hampshire, and educated at Marlborough College. He then served in the Royal Marines until 1913, when he began to learn to carve ivory at the London County Council Central School. His interest in carving led him to Chartres where he became enamoured of stone. But the First World War intervened, and for five years he served at sea, and on demobilization became curator of the Watts Museum at Compton, Surrey. In 1920, he returned to London and the Central School, carving in stone and wood, particularly for architectural and decorative purposes. He exhibited …
Durst [1939] View by appointment Sketch for terracotta model depicting the Annunciation
