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anyone know if this might be special or by a known artist? it’s not signed. just a cool piece we found at auction. thanks for any pointers!
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This is a good example of my nightmare.
So weird we cant figure out what it is.
even if we put on auction, we wont have the correct key words.This could be my million dollar ticket to paradise!
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OK, you asked. In art school there is a drawing class based on a technique written by Nicolaides called the “Natural Way to Draw”.
[here-https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Way-Draw-Working-Study/dp/0395530075].
We used his book to teach the “armature core technique to teach students to draw by using a scrawling series of internal lines to define “the core form”. Constant hand movement of encircling lines, building “volume” as you kept adding lines.This was in the foundation or first years of 2-dimensional drawing classes. Then the next semester we moved the students into 3-dimensional design by taking the drawings they made in 2-d class and translate them into a wire nucleus central core on a single armature. Thus, what I think we are seeing here. A single heavier wire central armature, then a series of thinner wire, wrapping and forming the internal volumetric core of the figure. Then the next step is to move the student to placing “a skin layer” [we called it draping the figure back in the day]. If this was to be a full clothed, skinned or solid nude figurine, it would have been done in clay or wax and “cast” as a solid piece, and being a much longer, time consuming process.
Some students went into detail on the draping, others did exactly like what you have depending on the material used and what their budget may be. A partial draping-skinning of the form can be done with “sculp-metal” a soft material that works like clay or putty but is actually a metal material and hardens over night into a thin metal surface. Then depending on the nature of what the figure was to be, the addition of a staff. a tool, a rope or what not to bring recognition to the figure. What we call, the building of an icon styled image.
Nicolaides whole technique is also based on speed. The quick capture of the essence of the built form. Many times, we had timed studies of 60 seconds, 2 or 3 minutes, or an extended pose of 5 to 6 minutes. Hardly ever much longer. The premise being to train the young artist to see volume and form and be able to define it by not using outlining and contour edges. Art and drawing talent can be taught. Many of these 2-d and 3-d studies at times did not get signed. But of course, the 3-d figures did take much longer.
Upon observation you can see the central thicker wire of the armature, then the volumetric buildup of the overall form and then the draping of the figure. Quick bending of the metal. Also notice the small, simple cut of the torch on the treatment of the feet. Looks like oxy-acetylene cut groove and a quick tack weld for stability.
So, I could be off base, and it could be a preliminary figural wire sketch of a much larger piece by a famous artist in preparation for a full-sized sculpture, but my guess is an art student or artist, using the Nicolaides method in a 3-d figural Sculpture piece.
Check this link also and scroll on done and you will see several what I am talking about.
Hey Ryanne, sound like you are back in art school? 🙂
But it could be by Picasso and when you sell it, you get $30,000 for it and you can buy your next property. 🙂
Hope you can at least get some key words out of this!
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art.
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Some key words that might help are apocalypse man/warrior figure statue sculpture. I can not find this exact one but found images similar in nature. If it is apocalypse in nature, there is a whole apocalypse culture/movement. You may want to put this on auction with a high starting price. If it does not sell the first time, you may want to put it up again. There are people who collect this kind of art. In addition, there are some wire art pieces on Ebay.
I am not sure if it is a reflection, but it looks like the artist may have put the initials on the bottom left outside in the center.
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