Art, anything goes...

RadishRose said:
@Pink Biz , thanks for introducing me to this artist!
Here is another by Anke Merzbach-

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Coming up to Halloween, this is a picture of a beautiful witch. Inspired by Gil Elvgren.
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First picture is Elvgren's model, second is the finished work, third and fourth is a very young wife. Sorry I cannot remember the artist and there's no name on the back, shame.
 
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This is one solid piece of wood. It is NOT a sheet covering a wooden clock
Credit: Wendell Castle http://www.wendellcastle.com/

Wendell Castle, Ghost Clock, 1985, bleached Honduras mahogany, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, 1989.68, © 1985

At first glance Ghost Clock appears to be a grandfather clock hidden under a white sheet. However, a closer look reveals a masterful deception: this entire sculpture was hand-carved from a single block of laminated mahogany. With its meticulous detail, Castle re-created in wood the contours of soft, supple cloth, then completed the illusion by bleaching the “drapery” white and staining the base of the “clock” a walnut brown. This work is the last in a series of thirteen clocks the artist created in the 1980s; unlike the others, it lacks an inner mechanism. Its haunting stillness and silence suggest eternity–the absence of time.
 
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Tucked away in the Holy Trinity church in Marylebone, Westminster, Paul Fryer’s Lucifer resides. The church has not been used for worship in nearly 40 years which makes it the perfect abode for this grotesquely beautiful installation.

This shows Lucifer as an oily black figure, with huge white wings ensnared in power lines. The piece has been created from wax, concrete, aluminium, rubber cord and feathers, and has an eerily dramatic effect. The juxtaposition of the fallen angel in the disused church, lit by the light of stain glass windows seems to make a social commentary on the waning staunch following of Christian beliefs in a world which is technologically advancing.
 
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