Gibbons owed it to Quellinus. The Baroque style. The exuberant garlands overflowing with fruit and flowers. The musical instruments. Yet Gibbons could do something Quellinus never could: carve actual strings on a violin made of limewood. The Flemish master of Amsterdam’s City Hall could never […]
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Michelangelo masterful wooden Christ was carved from linden wood when he was only eighteen years old. His “Lost Christ” hangs in the Basilica di Santo Spirito in Florence. The future master of the Renaissance created this remarkable sculpture after studying real human corpses. Michelangelo’s Masterful
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Klaas Gubbels’ wooden coffee pot is an orange colored interpretation of his iconic subject. He created the coffee pot in thousands of variations using a remarkable variety of techniques. The wooden coffee pot by Klaas Gubbels from 2004: “Oranje Kan”. Gubbels painted and drew the
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Down in the Woods began with a melody. It became a panda bear carrying a stag’s antlers on its back. I carved the sculpture from a trunk of catalpa wood. Down in the Woods – a sculpture like an absurd nursery rhyme. For decades, songs from
Titus Kaphar carves his family as saints, their heads surrounded by golden halos. In doing so, he honors the people who sustain his personal life. Titus Kaphar carves his family as saints, as seen in this sculpture, While You Rest from 2025. The American artist Titus
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De Kus (The Kiss) by Jeroen Henneman is a drawing in space several meters high. Standing beside the sculpture, it appears to be nothing more than two thin strips of stainless steel. Walk to the front, however, and the strips suddenly become two people kissing. Henneman also
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The Right Direction shows an arm with a hand pointing downward, toward the earth. Not aggressive, not accusatory, but determined. The Right Direction, pointing downward, toward the earth. I borrowed the direction of the hand from the famous Hand of God in Michelangelo’s ceiling painting in the Sistine
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Rise, climbing toward an ecological society, is a sculpture full of symbolism. What you see are two feet reaching the top of a ladder. What does it mean? That may be something different for everyone. Rise: Climbing Toward an Ecological Society Those who read the
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George Minne and the empty tomb of Jesus. It results in a sculpture of three deeply grieving women, wrapped in heavy cloaks. They are on their way to the final resting place, not yet aware that He has risen from the dead. George Minne and
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Jan Bom is a man on a mission. That is how poet Leo Mesman introduces the art volume Dendroism, Stories of the Wood. “A delight to the eye,” Mesman writes in his review on his website. The poet Leo Mesman, photographed in 2010 beside a tree
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