clever_intuition
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My sister sent me an e-mail with this info attached to it. Really worth checking out and sharing with other people. This guy has got some real talent.
Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne ,AustraliaDavid Bowie.
Eventually Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the physical presence of the original object, and so he turned to fine art and sculpture. In the early 1! 990's , still in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and was wondering what material would do the t rick. Latex was the usual, but he wanted something harder, more precise. Luckily, he saw a little architectural decor on the wall of a boutique and inquired as to the nice, pink stuff's nature. Fi berglass resin was the answer, and Mueck has made it his bronze and marble ever since. , to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children's television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring
Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne ,AustraliaDavid Bowie.
Eventually Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the physical presence of the original object, and so he turned to fine art and sculpture. In the early 1! 990's , still in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and was wondering what material would do the t rick. Latex was the usual, but he wanted something harder, more precise. Luckily, he saw a little architectural decor on the wall of a boutique and inquired as to the nice, pink stuff's nature. Fi berglass resin was the answer, and Mueck has made it his bronze and marble ever since. , to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children's television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring
