Bronze sculpture
Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast-metal sculpture of bronze is often called a bronze. Common bronze alloys often have the unusual and very desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mold. The manufacture of bronzes is highly skilled work, and a number of distinct casting processes may be employed, including lost-wax casting (and its modern-day spin-off ceramic shell casting), sandcasting and centrifugal casting. In the lost-wax casting method, the artist starts with a full-sized model of the sculpture, most often a clay model. A mold is made from the clay pattern; a wax is then cast from the mold. The wax is then invested in another kind of mold or shell, which is heated in a kiln until the wax runs out. The investment is then filled with molten bronze. Bronzes on Wikipedia pages include:
SculptorsMaggi HamblingHenry MooreEnzo PlazzottaFelix de Weldon
PeopleAndrew Browne Cunningham, in Trafalgar Square, London, England.George VI of the United Kingdom, at Carlton House Terrace, London, England.Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson - relief panels of his Victory at Cape St Vincent, and Death.A conversation with Oscar Wilde by Maggi Hambling, installed in Adelaide Street, near Trafalgar Square, London in 1998.Shepherd and Sheep by Dame Elisabeth Frink Paternoster Square Young Dancer by Enzo Plazzotta, on Broad Street, London.Temperance, a statue atop a drinking water fountain to the north end of Blackfriars Bridge, London.
|
|
