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Barbara Segal
Barbara Segal is a Sculpture, sculptor and Stone carving, stone carver based in Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, New York (state), New York. Early life and education Segal studied at Pratt Institute in New York City in the early 1970s and spent two years at the École des Beaux-Arts, L'Ècole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She worked in fine marble studios in Italy such as Tommasi Fonderia and SGF Studio Scultura, and with Jacques Lipchitz, Jacques Lipshitz, Agustín Cárdenas, Augustin Cárdenas, and Max Bill. She returned to New York in the late 70's and made product models for Avon Products, Avon Cosmetics in the 1980s. Work and career Barbara Segal creates sculptures carved from stone such as marble, onyx, and calcite. She uses traditional carving tools such as chisels and Stonemasonry, stone cutters and acquires material from Quarry, stone quarries all over the globe. Her work was inspired by the textures and patterns of the Renaissance and Baroque sculptures she saw while studyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramic art, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or Molding (process), moulded or Casting, cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
