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I don't know the artist, and I can't decipher his signature (left, behind the neck of the profile). Spotted this striking portrait on a backstreet wall in downtown Mulhouse, Alsace FR. In my album: Dan's Fantastic Faces.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Why Born Enslaved!, 1868, plaster with patina, 13 3/4 × 9 1/4 × 7 in.
An African woman turns her head defiantly upward in a sculpture defined by its dramatic shapes and silhouettes. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux created this work twenty years after France abolished slavery in 1848, and only three years after emancipation in the United States in 1865. This bust was meant to appeal to the antislavery views of a progressive white audience. However, the sculpture also objectifies the Black female body with her bound bare breasts that symbolize both liberty and colonial fantasy. This plaster is one of a few sculptures he modelled after this now-unknown woman.
This woman was also the model for the allegorical figure of Africa on a large fountain representing the four continents that Carpeaux designed for a park in Paris. This plaster is one of the independent sculptures he made based on that figure.
(Brooklyn Museum)
This photograph was taken at the "Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850-1950" exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Both Plaster and Concrete contain Cement and are very similar...so thought these would be suitable for Plaster
Haven't shared any fall color photography from West Michigan yet this season. Let's fix that ... these are all from Greater Grand Rapids.
Next week's MM theme is shadows; I have been practising and have ended up with 7 or 8 possibilities. This plaster angel that hangs on my bed is about 2 and a half inches between wing tips. The picture is shadow, there is a bit of the angel at the bottom (I flipped it)
Girl with pink plaster I meet today in Colonia Roma, Mexico DF. Nice Girl and Nice case of Pink :) Testing new Cyber-shot 10.1 mega pixels camera.
Or walls have been replastered, the drying plaster now looks like Winston Churchill sitting towards!
Facial Casts of Nias islanders, 1910 by J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan who conducted research on the physical characteristics of ethnic groups. During an expedition on Nias he covered the faces of a group of living men with plaster to record their appearance.
Rijskmuseum Amsterdam
A marsh. A cemetery. A parade ground. A gathering spot for avant-garde artists. A battleground for chess enthusiasts. A playground for canines and children. Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village has served various roles for its community throughout the years. Seen extensively in many movies and TV shows, the park was featured in the 2007 film I Am Legend with Will Smith.
In 1889, to celebrate the centennial of George Washington's inauguration as president of the United States, a large plaster and wood Memorial Arch was erected over Fifth Avenue just north of the park. The temporary plaster and wood arch was so popular that in 1892 a permanent Tuckahoe marble arch, designed by the New York architect Stanford White, was erected, standing 77 feet.
Getting down to the last few rooms. The walls have been scraped and cleaned down to the original plaster. Now its time for repair and restoration. My plan is to leave the plaster above the mantle in the original state, no paint , just the warm patina of the old plaster. Maybe just a bit of glaze to give a nice glow.