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I have reproduce the attitude of this woman in front of his window.
She has a heavy body.
She's not very young any more.
Her leather armchair is not placed vis-a-vis the window.
The window is very high.
She was thus turned to see what occurred outside.
Perhaps she has hear an unusual noise which distracted her ?
Perhaps she dream with the eyes open ?
Length : 49 cm, Height : 50,9 cm, Width : 20 cm.
In fact, I reduced the importance of the decor!
because this sculpture also contained "the building opposite"...
Here are some images of this disappeared version...
Workshop photo: I made a model of the window with polystyrene.
The woman stands too straight.
While I was building this sculpture, the idea developed.
I then imagined representing the building opposit
But not as an architectural façade, rather like a series of overtures in a false theatrical perspective…
And, to make it clear that these are not windows, I trimmed the berries like looks:
All the panels in each window are focused on this woman! In beam.
Then, to evoke his isolation in height, I considered detaching the floor from the building's ground.
The idea is there.
The rest is simply a matter of proportion, balance, and imbalance.lower, higher, thicker, thinner…
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If the topic of the window were often treated in painting
(I think of Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet and, of course, Gustave Caillebotte)
it is quasi-non-existent in sculpture…
The representations of a naked woman in an armchair are very rare.
A bronze was carried out by Jules Dalou "Naked woman reading in an armchair" but without window…
Edgar Degas created a "Woman sitting in an armchair, wiping her left armpit".
It is a lost wax bronze very funny.
With "the invisible object", Alberto Giacometti has represented a naked woman, very stiff, sitting on an armchair (semi-chair, semi-armchair)…
Do you want to go back to
the art gallery ?
Bruce Krebs, sculptor
9 ter street Amelot, 17 000 La Rochelle,
France, Europe.
if you want to send to me an E-mail:atelier.bruce.krebs@wanadoo.fr
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