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Wow! Woodart !
Everything about wood carving
Famous artists and their wooden sculptures. Wowwood collects, presents and describes artworks that cannot be found together anywhere else in one art book. Including special historical wooden art. And also my own work. Wowwood also advocates Dendroism. This is the art form where the grain of the wood forms the basis for the artwork.
Famous wood carving artists
A collection of artists who sculpt in wood.
Louise Bourgeois
Bourgeois carved seven eggs and later placed them inside a giant spider.
Henry Moore
Henry Moore found his organic style by carving a sculpture in wet wood.
Stephan Balkenhol
Balkenhol is one of the rare artists with humor.
Emile van der Kruk
Emile van der Kruk sees trees as upside-down humans.
Grinling Gibbons
Gibbons carved this cravat in limewood more finely than anyone before him.
Picasso
Picasso assembled a head from a vegetable crate, buttons and other debris.
Levi van Veluw
Levi van Veluw orders chaos by covering himself with square blocks.
Ossip Zadkine
Zadkine gilded his man-sized wooden deer from head to toe with gold leaf.
Constantin Brancusi
Brancusi carved his first 'Endless Column' in oak wood.
Jef Koons
Jeff Koons turned a wooden kitsch piglet into a museum piece.
Ewald Mataré
Ewald Mataré carved a sleeping cat that was banned by the Nazis.
Ron van der Ende
Ron van der Ende is an illusionist in salvaged wood.
Giacometti
Giacometti constructed a flying dinosaur in a palace at night.
Louise Nevelson
Nevelson assembled black monuments from scrap wood.
Paul Gauguin
Gauguin rediscovered 'direct carving' in wood on Tahiti, without prior design.
Olafur Eliasson
Eliasson constructed a compass from a tree trunk washed ashore in Iceland.
Arne Tjomsland
Tjomsland began mass production of arctic animal figures for tourists.
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington set auction record at 11.38 million dollars.
Carl Andre
Carl Andre is one of the founders of minimalism.
David Nash
David Nash puts the grain of the wood central, like a flame.
Karel Appel
Karel Appel made sculptures from painted scrap wood during his poor period.
Giuseppe Penone
Penone reveals the younger version of trees within the trunk.
Georg Baselitz
Baselitz works with the chainsaw, raw and gigantic: 3.5 meters tall.
Balinese Art Deco
Balinese artists carved the most elegant Art Deco figures from wood.
Man Ray
Man Ray attached the eye of Lee Miller to a metronome.
Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth carved spiritual circles in her sculptures.
Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy turned Snow White into a porn star.
Historical Wood Carving
Wood carving is one of the oldest, probably even the very oldest art form on earth.
The Shigir Idol
A Russian 'totem pole' from 11,600 years ago, older than Stonehenge.
Royal Standard of Ur
A wood relief from the heyday of Mesopotamia, 2,600 years BC.
The Dispilio Tablet
Perhaps the first human writing, carved in the late Stone Age.
Egyptian Queen
The first wooden bust is of Queen Tiy, 1,353 BC.
Man of Willemstad
The oak 'Man of Willemstad' must be 7,500 years old.
Idol of Samos
The idol of Samos was carved around 650 BC.
My Own Wood Carving
Dendroism, the stories in the wood.
Where's that Wolf?
Hidden in a landscape, the wolf was missing for months.
Burning Ballerina
The French ballerina came too close to the gaslight and burned.
Holy Shell
A sacred shell, formed from charred cross laminated timber.
Medieval Masters
Wood carving reached its absolute peak during the Middle Ages.
Riemenschneider
Saint Anthony with woodworm trouble at his feet.
Donatello
Mary Magdalene dressed only in her own long hair.
Adam Dirksz
Medieval prayer nuts as wonders of miniatures.
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