The first monk in the world had woodworm problems. What to do? A reflection on this masterpiece by German sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider. The faces of wooden sculptures from the 15th and 16th centuries look very dated today. Those high shaved foreheads of the women. All […]
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The heat of the tropical night. The ocean black and blue. A mouth tells stories. A memory of Bonaire, the paradise of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. The history of carving in wood began with a flat surface. Beginning wood carvers also start with a
Wind ripples. Ripples, in English. The sea creates them on the beach when the water retreats at low tide. The wind creates them in the drifting sand in the dunes. On a very windy day on the beach of IJmuiden I saw how they formed.
Her name is Zazia and she lives or lived in Ukraine. I would so much like to know: is she still alive? How is she doing? I have a photo of her, with hair waving in the wind. The ice-cold storm from the east had
The miniatures carved from wood by Adam Dircksz date from the 16th century and are so small that you need a magnifying glass to study them properly. About 135 to 150 of these carved miniatures of boxwood have been preserved. They are owned by various
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Janson’s Art Bible Ignores Wooden Sculptures. The authoritative Janson’s piles one error upon another blunder when it comes to artworks made of wood. There are plenty of such sculptures. The P+ Special ‘A Correction to Art History’ (2022) showed in 20 pages concealed wooden works
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Wood is popular in sustainable circles. As CO2 storage in housing construction. As CO2 capture in the form of climate forests. And as cooling trees in overheated cities. Throughout the centuries, artists have also made the most beautiful sculptures from wood, reflecting the thinking of
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Gauguin went to Tahiti in search of the noble savage. He eventually carved the wooden sculptures that the French colonizer had destroyed. Towards the end of his life he could finally make a good living from it. For wood carving enthusiasts, the absence of works
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Picasso: Cubist Bathers. Or: The Bathers. That is the name of the wooden sculpture group that Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) made in 1956 from salvaged wood. Picasso once told why he preferred wood to marble: “I find it strange that we ever got the
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Brancusi: The Endless Column. In Romania stands this recognized ‘world monument’ of iron and bronze, no less than 30 meters high. It seems to almost disappear into the clouds. But the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1876 – 1957) carved the original idea much earlier, in
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