Monumental bas-relief friezes by Charles Comfort, Central Station (French: Gare Centrale), 895 de la Gauchetiere West, Montreal. Central Station was the result of a Public Works construction program that began in 1938,. It opened on July 14, 1943. The station’s Departure Hall is decorated with the historic Charles Comfort frieze that illustrates the lives of Canadians, their industries, their activities and dreams for the future. Decorative elements and themes show people engaged in a wide array of typical Canadian work and leisure activities. They are situated across both ends of the main station concourse.
French artist, Benjamin Plé, is a master of many mediums. Working with oil, watercolor, ink, and sculpture, Plé has crafted a sophisticated and unified body of work. Plé graduated from the renowned art school "Met de Penninghen" in 2002, after which he spent 5 years honing his craft and finding inspiration for his works. Today,
Old bas-relief of fairytale fantasy elk on the wall
Detail of artwork of drapery
Swiss artist Maja Thommen’s interest in the human interior life is expressed through subtle studies of everyday movement in her Dressing series. Created from acrylic resin, each panel combines both ancient and modern techniques to achieve ethereal results resembling porcelain. The Dressing series comprises 16 panels, please enquire for full series pricing or refer to other listings for any other panel in this series. Each panel is from an edition of four (4).
French artist, Benjamin Plé, is a master of many mediums. Working with oil, watercolor, ink, and sculpture, Plé has crafted a sophisticated and unified body of work. Plé graduated from the renowned art school "Met de Penninghen" in 2002, after which he spent 5 years honing his craft and finding inspiration for his works. Today,
The bas-reliefs were made starting from a slab of clay of 3 cm. After drawing the subject on the clay the students have dug the clay to create the background and added the clay on the parts in re…
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I have sculpted and molded (using urethane rubber) around 20 relief sculptures in the last year. These reliefs were originally designed to be cast in aluminum. However, in the last 2 months I have been evaluating the casting quality of aluminum and it pains me to think that I cannot continue casting aluminum. The last several reliefs that were returned to me were of poor quality! They were either short poured or filled with air bubbles that I could normally be able to fix on a three-dimensional sculpture, but on a relatively flat surface it is very difficult. So, in my free time I have been spending time trying to find another option for casting. For the 10 years I have become familiar with casting in resin. I have used resin for casting models for public art competitions, trophies, even for mother mold making. More recently I began experimenting with adding powders such as bronze, stone, sand, terracotta, cement, etc. to see what kind of look resin offers. Most of the time these experiments were eye opening. Sometimes they were discouraging and made me want to give up. In the last month I've been focusing my free time in developing a look for casting the reliefs in resin and I believe I have found a beautiful look for these mid-relief sculptures. I'm calling it "bonded sand and oxides". Although it's much more than that, I'm leaving out my formula so as not to bore anyone. However, to get these castings means that I have to remold around 20 or so of my reliefs. They are almost all molded with a urethane resin. The problem is the "bonded sand and oxides" formula uses urethane resin which will bond to anything urethane including urethane rubber. The four reliefs above are plaster casts that I will seal with acrylic spray and johnsons paste wax so that I can remold, this time using tin cured silicone.
Bas-Relief Goga Tandashvili
July 27, 2013 Day 208/365 I've been wanting to visit Guildwood Park for some time. We rented a car to do some errands, so it was the perfect time to finally visit. The park is sort of a graveyard for architecture. It has the remains from historic commercial buildings many of which were cleared during the urban renewal of the 1960's and 1970's. Some of the architectural pieces are labelled and others are not. I was surprised by how many of the buildings remnants came from King & Bay. This is the heart of the financial district. During this period of urban renewal, the banks decided to build large scale new developments, which displaced many historic buildings. These bas-relief panels came from the Toronto Globe and Mail Building. It was built in 1938 and demolished in 1974 to make way for First Canadian Place. I love their Art Deco design. The sculpture for this piece was Fred Winkler and the stone carver was Sebastiano Aielo.
Swiss artist Maja Thommen’s interest in the human interior life is expressed through subtle studies of everyday movement in her Dressing series. Created from acrylic resin, each panel combines both ancient and modern techniques to achieve ethereal results resembling porcelain. The Dressing series comprises 16 panels, please enquire for full series pricing or refer to other listings for any other panel in this series. Each panel is from an edition of four (4).
I'm probably the only person who hasn't seen the new Gatsby movie yet (but I feel like I've seen the previews at least a hundred times). I figured that I wanted to see the Mia Farrow/Robert Redford version once before it became unwatchable forever. It's hard to imagine the text of the film without the overlay of Art Deco, and from what I've seen of the new film, it looks like that veneer is a little thicker than on the 1974 version. Detail from an illustration by George Barbier One of the things to love about Art Deco is the way that it flirts with so many other art and design movements in-play at the beginning of the 20th century— flirts with them and then ties them up and wraps them in cellophane… There's this veneer of superficiality, with the promise of genuineness lurking somewhere beneath the surface. Nothing quite conveys this like the graphical works of George Barbier, and Giovanni Meschini, the master of the pouchoir postcard. These situational illustrations had to be an influence on the art direction for the recent Gatsby film. Illustration by Giovanni Meschini The DoverPictura collection, Art Deco Designs Art Deco Design (048699807X) was assembled with this notion of multiple influences in mind, and in it I tried to present a selection that references many of the significant movements that are reflected in Art Deco. Influences of the Arts & Crafts movement, especially in America and Great Britain, can be seen in the wood-carvings and bas-relief sculpture: In contributions from German sources you can see elements of the nascent Expressionist movement—both in the edgy cabaret line drawings: and the aggressive, hard-edge logos and commercial graphics: The line between Art Nouveau and Art Deco has always been bit blurry to my eyes—perhaps you can see what I mean in the many highly-colorful, geometric and floral pattern pieces: If you have a project in mind with an Art Deco theme you should check out this collection. It covers the scope of the movement from it's most basic black & white, to the wildly colorful; from the highly figurative work of Barbier and Meschini, to hard-edge, geometric abstractions. The collection is comprised of 227 JPG and TIF image files; many of the images also come in an EPS vector format.
