Artist Entry #20/Sculptor #12 Marc Quinn
Marc is a British sculptor who works with interesting and unusual subjects for his works. He works with various media like sculpting, painting, photography and drawing. He is famous for his self portrait where he made a mold of his head and and filled it with nothing but his own blood and froze it(not pictured) and displayed it.
I think his work is interesting because the ideas are so different. The image up top is of a real person named Alison Lapper, she was born w/out any arms and shortened legs. I find this appealing because most of the time when you think of a marble sculptures you think of the ideal body type or the perfection of a body, like Michelangelo's "David". You wouldn't think to use a person with a deformed body. I guess this takes marble sculpting to another weird dimension. His work of the skeleton praying is killer, the sculpture is of an actual 22 month old fetus skeleton that was bronzed and painted white. Who thinks of this, I know I would have never thought of this. His works is really odd and that's why I'm drawn to it.
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