10 Great Women Sculptors You Should Know
Sculpture is a very impressive form of art, dating back to ancient times. Just like traditional painting, art history has acknowledged mainly male...
Errika Gerakiti 21 March 2022
Sculpture
Abakans – The New Humans of Magdalena Abakanowicz
I can see a group of approximately 250 people, all of them standing. Children and adults. I come closer and I realize they have no heads. I come even...
Magda Michalska 17 March 2022
A Luxurious Desire: Ancient Near Eastern Ivory Carvings
The allure of ivory, a lustrous material that when polished gleams and glows, exuding warmth and mysterious beauty. Near Eastern ivory carvings are...
Marga Patterson 14 March 2022
Have You Ever Seen Ancient Sculptures’ Colors?
We admire the beauty and plasticity of ancient sculptures, how harmoniously they fit into the surrounding landscape. But we rarely ask ourselves the...
Elizaveta Ermakova 14 March 2022
Mysterious Female Nude Statuettes of the Parthian Empire
Several female nude statuettes have been unearthed from the subterranean landscape of ancient Iraq. Rendered in the Greco-Babylonian style, these...
Marga Patterson 14 March 2022
Living Memories: The Funerary Stelae of Ancient Cyprus
The majority of sculpture that survives from ancient Cyprus are funerary stelae, elaborate grave markers to commemorate the dead. Possessing an...
Marga Patterson 14 March 2022
Both/And: The Art of Glenys Barton
There are many social, political, scientific, and economic models that are embracing the idea of the “both/and” philosophy. It is my...
Candy Bedworth 10 March 2022
Claire Falkenstein: Wire and Venetian Glass Sculptures
American sculptor Claire Falkenstein was extremely successful in her days, but today her story rarely resurfaces on the pages of art history books.
Magda Michalska 10 March 2022
Jane Poupelet: Bronze, Paper and Commitment in WWI
Jane Poupelet was a French sculptress and illustrator most known for her involvement in World War I. There were not many female artists at the time...
Maia Heguiaphal 10 March 2022
Barbara Hepworth: Sculptor of Archaic Wonders
Barbara Hepworth’s 1973 bronze-cast sculpture Conversation with Magic Stones is mythic, mysterious, and interactive. Barbara Hepworth, born in...
Guest Profile 10 March 2022
Augusta Savage: The Woman Who Defined 20th Century Sculpture
Augusta Savage was a sculptor whose name is often missing from the list of illustrious Harlem Renaissance artists. Throughout her life, she merged...
Anastasia Tsaleza 10 March 2022
Valentine Schlegel: Sculptor of Organic Abstraction
Sculptor, ceramist, artist, teacher. Valentine Schlegel was a headstrong individual with fervent, creative independence who carved out her own path...
Marga Patterson 10 March 2022
