tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45238299704320946852024-03-12T18:43:59.435-07:00Sabin Howard SculptureSabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-90907043625477614602021-03-25T13:22:00.001-07:002021-03-25T13:22:12.964-07:00Launching on Patreon<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">I’m launching my Patreon today!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">So excited to share with you a behind-the-scenes, exclusive look at the sculpting of the National WWI Memorial--and my creative process.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">On the Patreon, you’ll have first-looks at photos and video clips. You'll hear first about exciting developments in the process of sculpting the National WWI Memorial. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Come join this exclusive community where I'll be doing exclusive Q&As, studio tours, and sneak peeks at clips from the documentary!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">For VIP Members, I'll be offering a private online tour of my studio as well as Q&A sessions.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5SKV_D7BBJlce6KmJUqZSYnZto5hisJ8WTmT6jnWkeyugBES3UrNtuabBGn2Zniy8x9jAl_IQGjfQkGWcuRS3FfEg9H49n4-zDr116n4EEqRyEiDUn6JrrNNZZHU75sDePkPJ4V319d4/s1200/IMG_0391.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sabin Howard on Patreon" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5SKV_D7BBJlce6KmJUqZSYnZto5hisJ8WTmT6jnWkeyugBES3UrNtuabBGn2Zniy8x9jAl_IQGjfQkGWcuRS3FfEg9H49n4-zDr116n4EEqRyEiDUn6JrrNNZZHU75sDePkPJ4V319d4/w400-h266/IMG_0391.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p>Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-33553244201684124262018-08-30T10:00:00.001-07:002018-08-30T10:00:06.434-07:00Designing the National World War I Memorial Sculpture: Adam Savage- TESTED<h2><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-5PhT20VC7o" width="480"></iframe></h2>Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-10124304153169500452018-06-12T15:13:00.003-07:002018-06-13T04:09:15.554-07:00GEOMETRY OF STORY IN STRUCTURE OF RELIEF<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">It reflects both what is civilized and what is savage about humanity in a story that explains The Great War.</span><br />
<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">The ideals of heroism, family, and caring are juxtapositioned with the violence, terror, and aggression of battle in the WW1 relief sculpture. </span><br />
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<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">The WW1 relief sculpture is uniquely suited to fit within Pershing Park because it is a multifaceted view of humanity and because it goes beyond the traditional glorification of men in battle.</span><br />
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<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">It is a complex story that narrates the full spectrum of human feelings.</span><br />
<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">Clarity in visual narration has been established through simplicity of design and structure.</span><br />
<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">The geometry of the structure is laid out in this way with meticulous purpose.</span><br />
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<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">The purpose is to create a universally understood story regardless of age, culture, or society.</span><br />
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<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">A Soldier’s Journey is divided into 3 acts; a beginning, a middle, and an end.</span><br />
<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">Each of these sections is equally divided into beginning, middle, and end.</span><br />
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<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">Each section of the story thus has a start action, a movement or transition in between, and an end or exit action.</span><br />
<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">The mathematical spacing of the parts is the story and that spacing is critical for the understanding and clarity of the visual narrative.</span><br />
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<span class="" style="display: inline !important; float: none;">Because each section has opposing feelings and actions at each end, a specific distance is needed to bridge the gap. </span><br />
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The transition between the opposing feelings has to be a certain distance in order to create visual clarity in the story.</div>
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Pacing is critical for clarity in telling this story to the Memorial visitor. </div>
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The Spacing between these parts is how I have created pacing.</div>
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For example, you cannot ram a battle scene into a quiet scene; nor can you lurch from a quiet scene into an energetic scene without the proper transition and spacing.</div>
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Parts need to build into each other and flow with the correct rate of energy and speed to maintain harmony of the whole. </div>
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Act 1: Separation and Departure</div>
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1. START- The initial scene begins with a group of three which is the nuclear family. The scene is static, stuctured vertically, and quiet in mood. All the family members gaze within the circle.</div>
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2. TRANSITION- The middle scene shows the change in mood. The father is pulled forwards by his comrade soldiers, away from his vertical and static-posed wife. There is a building tension in movement as the soldier is pulled away from home. </div>
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3. END OF ACTION- The final scene presents guns for the first time. It is the beginning of aggression. The men pick up their guns and thus begins a charged move forward.</div>
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Three women occupy the left of the scene. This is Venus or love, represented in family. Venus is self-contained and in harmony and balance.</div>
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Men with rifles ready and aggression in their faces marks the right of the scene. This is Mars, the aggressor of war. </div>
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The middle scene portrays the transition and tension in a tug of war between home and war. </div>
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TRANSITION- Act 1 and Act 2--- (TEMPO SEPARATION)</div>
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A clear space marks the rest note between speeds and scenes.</div>
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In act 1: soldiers preparing for war.- In Act 2 soldiers are in the full charge of battle.<br />
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1. START- There is a marked crescendo from the previous scene. This leads to full Mars unleashed, which is war. War is humanity out of balance. The men charge forward in an explosion of animal aggression. The kinetic frenzied energy is at a maximum of intensity in gesture and feeling.</div>
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2. TRANSITION- There is an empty space or a void where the charge drives vertically down into the ground. The void is the transition between the aggression of war and <u class="">its inevitable outcome</u>: death.</div>
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3. END OF ACTION- The result is the Cost Of War marked by a Pieta scene. From this death, the poses and figures rise to the shell-shocked soldier to the right.</div>
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He marks the transition to the next chapter. It is a moment of quiet contemplation, in direct opposition to the battle scene at left.</div>
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The verticality of the shell-shocked soldier stops the flow of action forward. It is the only figure that faces directly out at the viewer, engaging the viewer in a moment of maximum contemplation.</div>
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The pose acts as a full stop. The <span class="">t</span><span class="">raumatized soldier</span> is flanked on each side by nurses and <span class="">by</span> the epogee of an arc both forward and side to side. The nurse’s heads are turned away from him. There is also additional space around him as a solemn statement of alienation. This is one of the quietest areas of the story. The space allows the figure to breathe in the solitude of the moment.</div>
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This is the father re-emerged and transformed.</div>
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1. START- The scene is marked by soldiers emerging diagonally from behind the shell shocked-soldier.This diaganol continues with the nurse and wounded soldier. They are exiting the war.</div>
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2. TRANSITION- The middle scene is marked by 2 groups of 3 soldiers. This first group is a connection between the past as a soldier looks back and advances towards the final scene. The first group also connects with the nurse behind them. The second group joins visually with the final scene. The composition is now moving parallel to the viewer in a more solemn and contemplative fashion. </div>
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The 3 groupings are needed to create the correct speed to exit the war and to explain the gravitas and epic nature of this historical moment; The figures moving in diagonal to the picture plane is active whereas the figures moving parallel to the picture plane is contemplative. </div>
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The flag is the zenith of the diagonal, rising up from the void in the center of the composition and proceeding forward to the end.</div>
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This area shows contains many complicated stories and they are all stitched together to flow forward to the end scene.</div>
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The father hands his daughter the helmet. She looks down into it divining the future. There is weight on the back of the child's head.</div>
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The composition is designed as a Egyptian hieroglyph were the figures face the viewer in Silhouette.</div>
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This marks the future generation being handed the next war.</div>
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Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-67051624964528230702018-03-02T10:41:00.000-08:002018-03-06T05:45:48.754-08:00THE SCULPTOR'S FUNERAL PODCAST - SABIN HOWARD<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/a/5/b/a5bc8079580622af/Episode_52_-_Sabin_Howard.mp3?c_id=10851801&expiration=1454858279&hwt=a3eac4e3d70d1d51a62637abb71bbc70" target="_blank">THE SCULPTOR'S FUNERAL PODCAST -</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-42424635440379318972018-02-28T13:08:00.005-08:002018-03-02T10:40:17.791-08:00A HERO'S JOURNEY VIDEOHere is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZIKvv0iGKk&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">link</a> to the sculpture story behind A SOLDIER'S JOURNEY;<br />
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<br />Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-83531019448561695912018-02-25T17:21:00.002-08:002018-02-27T13:45:17.574-08:00GEOMETRY OF THE STORY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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sat down this afternoon and made some measurements with my calipers to show the
underlying structure of the story. I wished to share how carefully knit the structure of this composition is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The <b>geometry
of the structure</b> is laid out in this way with meticulous purpose. It tells
the story. If you rearrange the structure, you will destroy the story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mathematical spacing of the parts is the story and that spacing is critical for
the understanding and clarity of the visual narrative. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b>Pacing
</b>is critical in the art of storytelling. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spacing</b> is how you show pacing in a visual narrative. The rate of
speed that the figures progress in the composition is specific to telling the
story. The rate of speed is the force or kinetic energy of the figures. You
cannot ram a battle scene into a quiet scene; nor can you move from a quiet
scene into anq energetic scene without the proper transition and spacing. Parts
need to build into each other and flow with the correct rate of energy and
speed to maintain harmony of the whole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relief was carefully constructed to make specific groupings with specific
lengths or visual weight again to explain the narrative. Specific transitions
were built in to the relief for clarity of story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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any of the sections will destroy the figure groupings. The groupings will blend
together without purpose or sense and the kinetic energy of the specific
sections will be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have made a musical analogy at the top of the diagram which refers to the pace
of the action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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composition was knit with a<b> precision towards symmetry.</b> This is a key
element to make something sacred that is also remembered. People remember
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creates a sense of balance and unity that is essential to maintain a hierarchy
of importance in the relationship of the parts to the whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Two years ago I was faced with the task of-How
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And in so doing create a WW1 Monument honoring
the men, and women that went through this horrific moment in global history.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Well now I'm on the other side of that in terms
of the storytelling for the 9” sculpture Maquette. What WW1 looked like is told
through a visual narrative called A Soldier’s Journey. It is a story of a
soldier and father, who departs from home and family, traveling to the distant
shores of Europe, experiencing the horrors of war, only to return home again forever changed.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">35 years ago when I began learning the craft of
making art, I was always taught to work from general to specific. And that
lesson became my mantra as I proceeded in this incredibly complex design.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">It took 9 iterations over 12 months, with 12,000
pictures taken of re-enactors in my Bronx studio to create a story of
transformation and change that would explain this War to the Memorial visitor.
The strangest part of this process is that I was unaware as I assembled the
scenes and drew out the final drawing that I was working in the template of
what Joseph Cambell calls a Monomyth. It has also been referred to as the <b>hero's
journey.</b> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>test print- Clay sculpture- Initial drawing concept of A Soldier's Story</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">It is only recently that my wife, Traci Slatton,
an internationally published author, and a gifted story teller, looked over at
me at 6am one morning over breakfast and said, “ You know that Soldier’s
Journey that you are doing is right out of the template that has existed for
ages in many different cultures of myth.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Joe Weishaar my designer partner had said to me
back in the fall of 2015, “ Create a beginning, a middle, and an end." But
I was completely unaware that what I was doing visually fit an age old way of
telling stories.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Traci continued and filled me in,” You ought to
read up on this. Joseph Campbell refers to it as, "mankind's one great
story." This structure of narrative involves a </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero"><span style="color: #0950d0; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">hero</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">
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and in a </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_(narrative)"><span style="color: #0950d0; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">decisive crisis</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> wins a </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory"><span style="color: #0950d0; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">victory</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">. (Just
to name a few, it is found in Native American culture, Greco Roman culture, and
Judeo Christian culture.) The protagonist then </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostos"><span style="color: #0950d0; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none;">comes home</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">
changed or transformed and wiser by his passage through this perilous task.” My
wife has always been very instrumental in helping me find the right track for
the story in my art. When you live with somebody that's gone to Yale and
Columbia, there is bound to be an intellectual conversation at the breakfast
table! Picking up one of Joseph Campbell's books on the dinning room table she
filled me in on the road that I had taken. It was a little shocking to realise
that somehow I had downloaded a storytelling template that had existed for ages
in many different cultures to explain the story of WW1.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">With more reading I found that Campbell defines
the function of mythology as the provision of a cultural framework for a
society or people to educate their young. Every epoc, every culture, every
society has myths. It provides society with an explaining mechanism for coping
with the human condition. Myths provide people with a means of coping and
guiding their passage through the different stages of life from birth to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> Mythology
makes us aware that we are not the only ones going through this moment in our
life. And it also makes us aware that we belong to something bigger than
ourselves. This leads us to a
realisation that these themes portray universal and eternal truths about
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Why had I gravitated toward this way of
explaining what WW1 looked like. For me myth has always been a way to fit the
sculpture into a framework that uplifts with power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> I was
deeply affected as small child living in Italy and being surrounded by the
visual splendour of the art and the architecture. There was always a sense of
going beyond the mundane or average in the sculpture and art. Art spoke about
grandness and fit within the structure of heroic narratives. This art was a
represention of us in sculpture and drawing presented in such a powerful and
visceral way. It was art that rose to the occasion. Sculptures like the
Michelangelo Moses carried such force and emotion. And to a 5 year old standing
in front of the 10 foot high Moses ready to spring and discharge his ire and
fury, this had a lasting effect!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> Myth
speak of heroes. Myths place us in a universe were we belong to something
bigger than ourselves. And certainly the soldiers that entered into this hell
and walked away were incredibly brave and heroic. This war transformed millions
of people’s lives, and even though the transformation was devastating on a
global level, there is an element of the human race rising up above the ashes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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soldiers and women represented as average. I would expect that the art would
take the real in the mundane and elevate it to a higher stature to show its
historical significance. To show the monumentality of what these people went
through. Using the monomyth template story creates an amazing structure to
deliver a relief wall that is dramatic, emotional, full of movement, emotion
and force. It's a way to represent the
men and women as larger than life. The relief wall tells the story in such a
visceral uplifting way that no one can walk away from this bronze wall without
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Several years ago, I was on a trip to Possagno in Italy,
and we went to the Gipsoteca of the Italian Neoclassical sculptor, Antonio
Canova. The museum contains his plaster models and shows his prowess at getting
all the major commissions that Europe had to offer at the end of the 1700s and
early part of the 1800s. He even made sculptures for America of George
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Canova drew his inspiration from the past, thinking about
how he could play forward the rich tradition of Roman and Greek Sculpture in
the present. His work also shows the first symptoms of the experimentation of
the modern age. To achieve this great task, he employed a workshop that helped
him to achieve his artistic vision. He hired workers to transfer his plaster
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Using the latest technology of his time, he perfected a
machine called a ‘pointing’ machine. He was able to work extremely quickly and
accurately, using this cutting-edge technology. The machine revolutionised
sculpture in the late 1700s. The measuring tool used by stone sculptors
accurately copies plasters and allows artists to recreate their vision in
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I stayed at Canova’s museum/home for close to five hours
and revisited it the next day. There was something there that I couldn’t put my
finger on, something that I was supposed to take in. Something I was meant to
take away with me and play forward.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was amazed at how prolific he was. I sat in the
Neoclassical room letting in this unreal world. The white sculptures are bathed
in light that falls from above. There is such a sense of unending peacefulness,
and I had the pervasive feeling that I was a visitor to a sacred space.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As my life progressed from that moment, I now know why I
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What did I learn and how did I apply that lesson?<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I finished the drawing for the full composition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Soldier’s Journey </i>in February 2017<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>I felt that I had accomplished an epic
feat in a very short period of time. The creation of that design idea came from
nine months of incredibly focused and intense work done within the walls of my
studio. The complete drawing was started during the Thanksgiving of 2016 and
completed in February. The actual drawing part took me 750 hours of the most
intense work of my life. In January alone, I worked 30 days straight, for 10
hours a day on average. Needless to say, the task paid off – as we received
concept approval from the Fine Arts Committee on May 18<sup>th</sup> 2017.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After that brief moment of elation that, for me, really
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I knew that I had to rethink how I would proceed. There
was no way that I would be able to achieve so-called ‘museum level’ quality in
the short span of time afforded for completion. The success of proceeding
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I had had a visit to my studio in April by Richard
Taylor, who owns Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand. Richard had been
following me for years and had a trip planned to New York for the premiere of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ghost in the Shell</i>. Even though his
company is well known for its work on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Lord of the Rings </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avatar, </i>he
has a real passion for Classical art, specifically sculpture. When he visited
my studio in south Bronx, he was blown away by my drive to create a Classical
figurative art that played forward this rich tradition in a modern context. His
reaction was, “There is no shtick here. This is all about the art.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The seed was planted when he asked me on that rainy New
York day if I’d like to come have a look at his workshop in Wellington, New
Zealand. Two weeks later I boarded a plane for a trip that would take me 9000
miles away from my studio and my family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Weta Workshop is unique in the world. I knew that I had
to take the grunt work out of the process, and I couldn’t do it by myself. I
needed a highly skilled workforce to accomplish this task quickly. I wouldn’t
have time to train a group of people in my Bronx studio. Weta Workshop has a
sculpting department with figuratively trained sculptors. Those sculptors are
from all over the globe: Spain, China, Japan, England, and Switzerland. <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Tina%20Frederickson-Ward" datetime="2017-11-02T08:14"><o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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Those sculptors also knew how to take my vision within
the concept drawing and help me translate that into sculptural terms. To do
that, we photographed models in Weta Workshop’s Photo Studio from 360 degrees.
The models were lit to pull out the structure and volume of the body. With that
information, we were able to start sculpting on the computer, the figures in
the round. We could then take those digital files and compositionally flatten
them to different degrees of relief. The beauty of this programme called ZBrush
is that you can move and manipulate figure compositions at a technological rate
of speed, not a human rate of speed. This allows different options in figure
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This information is then milled out and overnight a
decision can be made about the depth of a grouping in the relief, or the scale
of a figure in the relief. Things that if done manually in clay would take
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A short time after starting to work with the team at Weta
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the past and played forward a similar system of creation. <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Tina%20Frederickson-Ward" datetime="2017-11-02T08:14"><o:p></o:p></ins></span></div>
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Just like Canova, who perfected the use of the pointing
system to bring his art to life, I am using a modern technological tool to
bring this relief to life. Canova also used a large trained workforce, and Weta
Workshop supplied me with that. And lastly, just like Canova, I too feel like I
am playing forward a tradition of figurative art that comes from the same roots
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Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-38688325649113583632017-10-04T11:34:00.000-07:002017-10-04T11:53:50.193-07:00Changing Things Historically<div class="MsoNormal">
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Last Thursday I flew back the 9,000 miles to New York City,
taking a break from the green, windswept city of Wellington, New Zealand. I had
completed the first part of the 3 meter-long sculpture maquette. It was a
moment for me to reflect back on this pairing of digital technology and
traditional drawing and sculpture. And I had that chance this week as I stood
in front of an audience in the offices of Changing Our World (the principle
fundraisers for the WWI Memorial) in Mid-Town Manhattan. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>Wellington, NZ</o:p></div>
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<o:p>MID-TOWN NYC</o:p></div>
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I had been asked to speak to the company about the WWI
Memorial Project. And as I stood in front of the audience my thoughts about the
alchemy created in this pairing of modern and traditional suddenly started
coming out of my mouth in a very heartfelt way. I spoke about my 30 plus
years of working in clay to sculpt heroic figures. I spoke of Italy and the
50,000 hours that I had spent in front of life models in my studio to create
those sculptures and drawings. Without thinking, my words came out, and
they carried a lot of emotion because I understood the finality of what I had
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The significance of time in the creation of my art had
changed. I would never go back to solely creating sculptures where the element
of how long something took to make did not matter. I fully understood with a
twinge of sadness, that that era was over. Even a few months ago I saw it as
the end of my official sculpture training. That old door had closed. A new door
had opened with this epic public project. There was a major deadline to meet. I
would be creating Art in the Arena! <o:p></o:p></div>
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When I began work on this Memorial Project back in January
of 2016, I was immediately so excited. I wanted to share my passion with
this group now. As I began my talk with this audience of 20 and 30 year-olds, I
realised that they did not share that same excitement. There was a certain
sense of disinterest as they slouched with cell phones in hand, checking their
emails and messages. There certainly wasn’t a lot of electricity in the room.
After all, I was speaking about a war that had happened 100 years ago, and memorials
as of late have been underwhelming even on a good day. But as I began to tell
them my story of growing up in New York City in the 60s and travelling to Italy,
and how at age 19 I could not draw, and how one day I decided to become an
artist, ears perked up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And as I continued explaining what was happening in this
project, an excitement started to creep in. Heads began to lift. Cell phones
were put down and postures began to change. A charge had hit the room. All of a
sudden everyone was sitting on the edge of their chair in rapt attention. They
were witnessing, and being let in on, a huge secret that would blow the roof
off the art world. They were witness to a historical change. This was the first
group of people to see the 3 meter-long maquette outside of Weta Workshop in
New Zealand. I was explaining what I had gone through to get here, how I had
received a calling. I was letting them in on my journey. I spoke about how
sculpture was once the visual medium to bring people together and tell a story,
and how film had taken on that job today. And I explained, I was about to
change that!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had travelled to Wellington and discovered the warp speed
that digital technology could afford an artist in his creative process. I knew
as I stood in front of this group, that this relief wall would bring back the
excitement and power that art once had for the general public. I felt like we
were in a back room planning a revolution and this group of young 20 and
30-year-olds were privy to the "Visual Explosion" about to be
launched. I talked about the correlation between my relief and film. How in
film, as we sit there, the scenes change in front of us. I spoke about how in the
future people would go visit the Memorial and as they travelled from one end to
the other the scenes would change. Memorial visitors would become active
observers receiving a spark from the past. They would be sucked into the
story and feel emotions about the characters that have travelled to those
distant shores, and experienced the carnage. The witnessing of what WWI looks
like as told through the relief would create feelings that would be a catharsis
of sorts, very similar to what happens in movie theatres at the mall. <br />
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And this young generation of listeners understood that a
true revolution is about to happen. They understood what is coming and what you
will see at Pershing Park will be playing forward the rich and full tradition
of figurative art in all its aesthetic power and glory. As Edwin Fountain, the
Commissioner of the WWI Centennial Foundation says, “You will see a killer
sculpture." All of a sudden, the audience carried that same excitement for
the aesthetics of a bygone era. They saw my vision of bringing to life the
emotions of film with the intensity of Michelangelo and the beauty of Leonardo.
They were inspired by my vision of this aesthetic being reinvented to fit
today’s world!<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was palpable excitement in the room as I told them
this story of<b> A <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soldier’s
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The visitor will see the husband pulling away from his wife
as she grabs his arm in fear of never seeing him again. They will see the
soldier launching himself out of the trench with an animal aggression in his
eyes. They will see the sadness of war as the nurse holds the gassed soldier in
her arms. And out of all this death and destruction they will feel the
desperation of the father figure emerging out of the battle scene, staring
directly out at you from the relief. For this is a visual narrative told in a
three-dimensional material, bronze. It is a story of our humanity. Of how we
are born, travel through our life, only to return at the end handing our
experiences on to the next generation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They saw how this art was a return to the visual. I
explained how this relief breaks away from the ideology of post-modernism where
the importance of the book about the art has superseded the art that it writes
about. And they got it.<o:p></o:p><br />
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It was a moment that I will never forget. It was an
acceptance from the younger generation. It is a generation that is not literate
in the culture and esoteric values that I carry with me. When I began this
project, I was determined to bridge the gap between this outdated tradition and
imbue it with the excitement of the new. That is why I had flown to Weta
Workshop to make use of this cutting-edge technology. And as I stood
there, I realised at that very moment that it was not the technology that was
the answer. It was the vision that drove the technology, that allowed this
aesthetic to be reborn. The technology was just a tool. It was all about
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And it made me happy to know that what I cared about was
also something of great value and importance to this younger generation. I left
there with tremendous excitement knowing that when this relief wall
materialises at Pershing Park, I will be able to change the direction of art
history and put figurative art back on the map as the cutting-edge art. I will
have given back to others with my life task of creating a contemporary
Renaissance Art. And in so doing, I will make art vital again to the general
public!<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no stopping this now, it is coming on like a
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Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-40977921014666772712017-10-02T14:19:00.001-07:002018-03-06T05:54:06.793-08:00Playing forward the re-humanization of art<br />
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When I left my studies in Rome Italy in 1987, I really wasn’t attuned to what was going on in the current state of the post modern movement. <br />
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I wasn’t aware that a major coup against the rich tradition of the past was in effect, hell bent on the de-humanization of the figure in the art world. And in a move similar to the rebellious tantrum of a pre-pubescent boy, the energy of contemporary “art “ was in a state of complete rebellion. “Art” was proceeding with a grand disillusionment away from what we had held so dear in the past, and proceeding full force towards the leering and sardonic grin of irony.<br />
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I came to art late in life at age 19 with the thought that there were three artists to pay attention to and emulate; Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael. And in my ignorance, I had no understanding that anything else existed in the art world. So when I answered my call to be an artist on that fall day in October 1982 my sights were on the sacred quality of art that I was all to familiar with from childhood, not on what was going on around me.<br />
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From that moment on I worked with life models, drawing and sculpting traditionally 5 to 6 days a week, from 9 to 5 for over 25 years. An obsessive quality drove me forward. I spent years in a boarded up room, blocking out the light of day and regulated my own light and how it fell on those life models. Those life models were my reference for creating a representation of us that spoke of another world. When visitors came into my studio people remarked that you didn't know what time of day it was, nor what the weather was like outside. There were no seasons, nor a sense of time in that room. I wanted to work in an environment where time stood still and there would be no distractions. I just had this driving force to create figures that represented us and spoke of the sacred. <br />
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I was after a mythical sublimity with an earth bound reality. I was after emotional depth, outwardly and inwardly alive. I strove for a psychologically and physically real figure full of weight and bound by gravity. My goal was to create a seamless unity between psyche and soma, mind and body. It is what the art critic and art historian, Donald Kuspit says, "It is what makes Old Master portraiture so convincing--what gives their figures presence, suggesting that we are in their presence.” <br />
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I was after the Re-humanization of Art and I was learning.<br />
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I was hellbent on attaining this vision in my sculptures. And in 2011 rising up out of the ashes of irony there is a moment recorded by a cell phone shot that that has tremendous meaning for me. It was taken at a foundry in upstate New York. And it's taken at the end of the day by the foundry workers. It is a picture of the sculpture Apollo cast in bronze. It’s unfinished and still in a state of raw metal, the seam lines have just been welded and it's the end of the day when all the body parts had just been assembled. And in this moment of assembling all the cast sections of the figure, I remember we have just nailed the centre of gravity of that figure. It stands in perfect balance. My intention had been to make a figure that soared upwards and moved forward. I had never spent this much time or this much all-consuming energy on one piece. I used life models for 2 1/2 years of work. We had worked five days a week for 3400 hours. It was the end of a long process of studies, 10 years to be exact that culminated in this moment. In my studio it had been Clay, but here it was in bronze. That meant that this piece would outlive me now. I sat looking at that figure that late afternoon in winter and I had a sense of knowing that I had pulled off my dream. But I also carried with me a sense of sadness for I knew I would never do this again. It would be different. I would move on to the next part of my life.<br />
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I am glad that moment was caught with the cell phone shot because I will always remember it. It marks the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one.<br />
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I had no idea where life was taking me, and in 2015 I entered into the WW1 National Memorial competition. That summer I paired up with with the architect, Michael Imber and produced my first idea for the competition. I saw a picture of two US soldiers in Iraqi and that initial image was the spark that initiated the idea. With that germ of an idea I created my initial concept drawing for the WW1 Memorial. The drawing and idea was the concept for a sculpture in the round with two soldiers crouched together. The hero soldier holds his less fortunate brother in arms in a moment of compassion. It is a piece about connectedness and compassion that comes out in humans in the horrors of war. It was called the Brotherhood of Arms. Our team did not make the final selection. But in September I received a call from Joe Weishaar and joined his team eventually winning this esteemed competition. I was elated. This would be the next step in my art making journey.<br />
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As an artist you never know what's coming even in the next 10 minutes. And now 9000 miles away in New Zealand at Weta Workshop, I stood in front of the test model produced from my concept drawings. I stood there in the imaging room with photo lamps dramatically illuminating the 9 foot long Soldier’s Journey. Maddy, the photographer clicked a candid shot from behind me at that moment of introspection. An all too familiar feeling was happening. I knew that this was another moment in my life. It was another chapter. But this time it is the beginning of the chapter not the end. This time it is about creating a sacred art of re-humanization. And this time I am in service of something incredibly large and powerful. Everything that I have learned in the making of Apollo will be played forward in this sculptural relief that shows 38 figures moving forward in a processional composition towards the future. But what is different here is, that this is not an art only for the few. I have left behind that realm of esoteric creation and moved into the realm of artistic creation that is in service of many. I am now “playing in the arena”, as Teddy Roosevelt has said.<br />
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From my perspective the relief and story that I’ve created are a visual poetry of WW1 and plays forward history for all to understand what it felt and looked like. And in this moment I am reminded of how some of the great artists of the past dealt with similar epic projects. For me the past is something to learn from and play forward using those brilliant ideas created then and morphing them into the present and the future. I remember as a rebellious 15-year-old visiting Florence and having an epiphany about how powerful Michelangelos Medici Tomb was. It was that day under a hot Tuscan summer's sun that my Dad dragged me into the shade of cuppola of San Lorenzo. We went from the noisey blistering heat of San Marco market plac , to a cool, light filled room with a smell of incense. It was at that moment that a light bulb went off in my head. I had a spark of yearning to create something that carried that superhuman magical power. In the Medici Tomb in Florence, Michelangelo was accused of not making the 2 effigy sculptures of the Medici rulers realistic in likeness. History has changed that. Michelangelo’s representation of Guilano and Lorenzo is how we remember them today. Those two sculptures of the medici rulers carry far more power than a figure from this world could ever have attained. His work transcends the real world, and as Picaso would say years later, “ To tell the truth you must tell a lie.” This is the tradition that affected me that day and inspired me to work the way that I do today.<br />
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The mythology that I followed and used in my previous classical work has made its way to into this new work. In the middle of the relief sits the battle scene. It is a giant wave that moves forward and crashes into the ground. And through the iterations led by Edwin Fountain, I developed at least four major versions of this central section. The initial ones were too chaotic, with figures all going in different directions. The final and accepted iteration was the unification of these six men charging. I thought of the concept of a school of fish, or a flock of birds and how they look like one unit all moving in unison with one determined action in mind. A few months ago a university professor came to our house for dinner and looked at the concept drawing. She remarked on how this was a perfect rendition of what the God of War, Mars represented.The Greeks believed, Mars became present on the battlefield where he elevated men to super human strength. It's the transformation that occurs for men in that moment of extreme danger when time stands still and things move in slow motion. In my own life I have done many dangerous sports, such as rockclimbing and motorcycle riding. I am well aware of what the Greeks were talking about with Mars. And in those sports the mind is transformed with a rush of adrenaline and other chemicals that elevate the physical power and drive one forward in a focus and clarity that is unhindered and outside of our everyday vision and experience. As I posed the models I looked for ways to capture that psychology and feeling in each of their gestures. And in my idea of what that battle felt like to those soldiers, I created figures that flow forward in one aggressive adrenaline fuelled charge.</div>
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The figure that leads that charge also went through many iterations with Edwin. That pose became the catalyst for me working towards figures with greater drama and movement. For this project I changed my studio practice and art making process. Instead of posing the model on the modelling stand and then observing, I began having the actor act out the call to arms in motion. And in their movements I would find the one pose that explained the whole story. Edwin had also spoken about a Gunnery Sergeant. A very famous marine call Dan Daly. One of the most famous quotations in Marine Corps history came during this initial step off for the battle when Dan Daly yelled to his men,”Come on, you son of a bitches, do you want to live forever!” Edwin asked me to give him a figure that represented this moment at the Battle of Bella Woods when the United States turned the war and achieved victory. Again I began to transfer my previous classical work into this historical humanistic art. I looked back at what I had done with the sculpture of Apollo, a figure that leads with light. And I thought this would be a perfect pairing of Mars and Apollo in the relief. Light leads aggression. It is a fight led by correct principles. The Apollo pose is similar to my original piece with his heart exposed in a vulnerable position leading his charge. His arms spread to their maximum reach in a display of courage. It is a moment of rising to the occasion. The pose speaks of human vulnerability and courage and represents how the United States rose to the occasion in the war that turned the tide.</blockquote>
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My reference to art history also became part of my vocabulary in choosing how to present these characters of the relief. In the initial section of the relief on the left, the wife of the principal character is derived from Lady Liberty. She is not only the soldiers wife but is also a representation of America. I was very struck by the painter, Delacroix, and influenced by his painting of Lady Liberty. In his painting, A woman personifying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty">the concept</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(goddess)">Goddess of Liberty</a> leads the people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution">French Revolution</a>.<br />
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The winged victory of Nike at the Louvre Museum in Paris was also influential in the creation of the soldier’s wife. I looked towards references that would allow me to create a wall of honour and present the characters in a human and heroic ways. Again these figures represent a rising to the occasion presented in a emotionally dramatic and humanly heroic way.<br />
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Following the battle scene to the right is the cost of war scene. This scene begins on the ground as the charging figures are angle steeply down from above on the left. This is a different world as framed by a broken structure in the background. It's representative of the broken world and society that was destroyed by the war. This section has groupings that are strongly influenced by Michelangelo and Renaissance Pietas. I wished to portray death and suffering with the sacredness and a sense of caring from humanity. So I created compositions that intertwined figures into a brotherhood of arms and represented the camaraderie of our troops.<br />
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So as the giant wave of the charging battle scene crashes to the ground, this next scene of the cost of war rises up from that point on the ground. From the beginning of the cost of war this strong diagonal rises up towards the only figure coming out directly at the viewer. It is the only figure not moving towards the future. It is a moment of introspection, and acts as a full stop in the visual phrasing of this story. This figure is the principal player of the whole composition. He comes out toward the viewer at the three-quarter mark of the length of the wall. He is the father coming out from the battle scene. The soldier is trying to make sense and process what he has gone through. I was asked by Edwin Fountain to give the composition a figure that shows the thousand yard stare and has a shell shocked look. A vacant stare into nothingness. He is the hero of our story. The father figure represents America. And this moment represents the transformation that this country went through from an Agrarian nation to an industrial superpower. A sword is forged by intense heat. My analogy is that the father is forged and transformed by what he has seen in the war. He is a man, and the representation of a country forever changed. He is seeing once again in the very last scene of the relief. In this scene he hands his daughter his helmet. And she holds his helmet. She holds the doughboy helmet a representation of the history of WW1 in her hands gazing into it and divining the future. She is the next generation. <br />
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There is also a powerful nurse to the right of this soldier and she is inspired by the WW1 nurse Julia Stimpson. Stimpson served on the front line eventually changing the profession of nurses forever. She was seen as charismatic, courageous and determined. She made a huge difference during the Great War for many men whose lives she saved. My intention was to create a female figure that would be seen as a heroine, full of power and charisma as she stands directly to the side of the Hero in the next grouping of three soldiers moving towards the end of the war.</div>
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She is also part of the diagonal which rises up from the cost of war and continues up to the highest point in the relief which is the flag.<br />
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As we come towards the end of the relief there is a grouping of three men that carry this flag. This grouping represents the Johnny Comes Marching Home parade scene. And is influenced by the three figures often seen in the American revolutionary war that carry a fife and drum, and flag. <br />
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In four days I board a plane for New Zealand and return to Weta Workshop. Our next step is creating the clay version of this 9 foot long model of the relief wall. I look forward to being able to share my process and show that the art world has other options. It's an amazing moment in my life to be able to share my passion with so many. And be able to create something that speaks of the sacred and us in an uplifting way.<br />
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For me this is a catalyst and a spark in the art world. And we can only wait and see what other fires this creative spark will light.<br />
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Here is an <a href="http://www.nccsc.net/essays/wwi-memorial-american-acropolis" target="_blank">article</a> by the art critic, Jim Cooper.<br />
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and here is the <a href="http://www.nccsc.net/essays/wwi-memorial-american-acropolis" target="_blank">link</a> as well; <a href="http://www.nccsc.net/essays/wwi-memorial-american-acropolis" target="_blank">http://www.nccsc.net/essays/wwi-memorial-american-acropolis</a>Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-80647330492324779842017-06-11T12:42:00.002-07:002017-06-11T13:31:12.151-07:00GALLERY TALK ON DRAWING OF WW1 RELIEF WALLI wished to share this short <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmqisgjgvo0tanx/IMG_6682.MOV?dl=0" target="_blank">video</a> clip on lasts night talk at the Paul Booth Gallery.<br />
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Here is the link; <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmqisgjgvo0tanx/IMG_6682.MOV?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmqisgjgvo0tanx/IMG_6682.MOV?dl=0</a>Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-27209367791748836802017-05-30T07:48:00.000-07:002017-05-30T07:48:04.863-07:00CONCEPT APPROVAL FROM CFA RECEIVEDHere is the <a href="http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/2476-four-questions-for-sabin-howard.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery" target="_blank">article</a> on how I have thought about this 65" long bronze wall called<br />
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Bringing back figurative art in a meeting for way!Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-29765761236695853152017-04-07T18:16:00.001-07:002018-05-16T03:52:29.021-07:00WW1 Memorial Wall, Washington DC.<br />
Had to share this latest piece on the design drawing for 65 foot long bronze wall:<br />
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Here is the Fox5 News video: <a href="http://app.criticalmention.com/app/#clip/view/26804234?token=0496e0e9-906d-44aa-b108-70df88eed4e2" style="color: #954f72; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: center;">http://app.criticalmention.com/app/#clip/view/26804234?token=0496e0e9-906d-44aa-b108-70df88eed4e2</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Since Thanksgiving, I have been involved in composing and drawing out the final iteration of A Soldier's Journey. I went through at least a dozen iterations with Centennial Commission, led by Edwin Fountain. By photographing young men, and women dressed in authentic World War I uniforms, I came up with many options for each of the sections of the processional relief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">What developed from my countless hours of posing models is a story that would excite the general public and also explain World War I in a way that makes it meaningful to your every day memorial visitor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">From the images and scenes that I collected, I would then translate the individual poses and figurative groupings into drawings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">We are experiencing a rebirth of interest in the figure. This renewed interest has been brewing for at least the last 15 years all over the world, with young artists taking classes in private studios called ateliers. Most of the work is about learning the technique of recreating the figure in a realist fashion. It relies on photography as a reference model. It often doesn’t talk much about the philosophical implications of the figure. In art, the philosophical implications are described by the construction of form, and how things are assembled structurally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Because I am a sculptor, I extrapolate a three dimensional approach that has a tactile sense in how the forms are pitched towards the light. The sense of force, luminosity, and structure become strong elements in this construction of the figure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Ultimately this project is not about the technique of creating a multi-figure composition. It is about using a medium or technique to deliver a message.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">My drawing work is strictly based in three components of construction. There is the scientific anatomical element that deals with the gesture of the architecture of the figure. This is the skeleton. There is the second scientific anatomical element that is the musculature of the body. This deals with how forms push out into space, giving a sense of expansion</span><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">. Lastly how these two elements of skeleton/architecture and musculature/energetic spirals are combined in a proportionally rhythmic and dynamic fashion. This construction creates a unified hierarchical system where all the components fit within the whole.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">I have always looked at translating the life model in the studio with an eye to these conceptual elements. I don’t rely on photography as an indicator of realism. Rather, I look at the figure as an architectural organic structure that has to be translated from life into an art form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> Yes,</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> I have a way of working that is figurative, but it's also extremely abstract and conceptual in nature. It gives the figure a sense of belonging to something bigger than just this reality. It gives the sense of a sacredness of importance. The act of creation for me is an active transformation from life model or reality into art form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">By having a geometric construct in mind when I look and draw out my figures, there is a very different end result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Edwin came to New York for a final meeting in my studio where he took a red pencil and drew comments about how he wished to see the storyline unfold. In the next 72 hours, I regrouped in my studio the five WWI models and reshot three quarters of the full composition. Most of the shots involved a maximum of three figures grouped together with some single figure poses. From these individual pictures, I was able to put together larger groupings. From these larger groupings, the composition resulted in five scenes.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> This subdivision transitioned into three acts or three stages of beginning middle and end. This is a very classical way of working where there are many parts but all those parts fit together in a unified, harmonious way to make the whole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> I have always worked</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> with life models as my primary reference. As an artist, I translate everything through my perception. Art is the translation of how an artist perceives things. Each human being perceives the world in his or her own unique fashion. There is a general consensus of how things are, however visually when we look,</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> our perception is strongly influenced by our education. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">My education stemmed from Walter Erlbacher, a German teacher that came out of the Bauhaus school. From him I learned a methodology of sculpting that went back to the figurative anatomical writings of Leonardo and Pollaiolo, both Italian Renaissance Masters. His wife Martha, taught me how to translate form through the use of light in drawing. My education continued in Rome in an apprenticeship with Paulo Carasone bringing me a new knowledge in sculpture from Greco-Roman portraiture about unity and rhythm in figurative sculpture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">In one ear, I listened attentively as Edwin told me, “This is what I want the story line to be.” In my other ear, I listened to guidance from the historical Masters of Renaissance Italy to construct something that would play forward the story line in a forceful,dramatic and meaningful way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> There is nothing archaeological about this art form at all. When I am drawing and doing this translation from the reference, my mind is completely focused. I do not bother playing music because I don't hear anything. I am in the moment. I am not thinking about how the end product should look. I'm completely in the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">My job from the beginning of this project has been to put a visual face on a war that occurred 100 years ago in a way that would interest the public. The visuals drive the concepts. Yes, my creative process is full of conceptual information, but it is there first and foremost to create an art that is 100% visual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">It feels appropriate to create a memorial that harkens back to an era that still believes in the sacred. And in many ways this is the next wave of art as it proceeds forward always reinventing and re-creating itself in a fresh new light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">It is imperative to create something that everybody can understand. Yes, there can be hidden meanings, but first and foremost the visuals must relay the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">The story must carry a sense of drama and theater to convey feeling. </span><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">We all understand emotions. It is how we travel through our lives and make sense of our world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">It is my job as an artist to create a visceral memory of what World War I was like. The art carries an emotional truth and energy that people can appreciate and understand, and in that understanding an emotional reaction is created in the visitor. From that emotional reaction an interest in knowing more about this forgotten war is sparked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">These feeling help tell the story on a personal level. A</span><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">s I developed A SOLDIER</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">”</span><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">S STORY, this one soldie</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">r’s</span><span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"> voyage has come to represent on a deeper level what transpired for America both at home and globally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">All this is contingent upon the level of the art created. There can be no glitches in the flow of the composition. The structure of each of the individual figures must be solid by itself and transition well into the figures that surround it. There is an underlying architectural structure to the full composition. An X passes through the very center of the composition connecting all of the figures to the core. The symbol of X has meaning of transformation and change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">I wish to create something that is shocking but not shocking in the modern sense, but Shockingly beautiful!</span></div>
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<span id="goog_222338058"></span><span id="goog_222338059"></span><br />Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-79298902457325799652015-09-05T11:33:00.005-07:002015-09-06T07:02:22.638-07:00Sabin Howard’s Anatomy for Artists: Structure and Anatomy of the Head BEGINNING September 8, 2015 8 PM NYC time - <span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Bold; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>
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<br />Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-2073448928689816702015-06-07T16:47:00.003-07:002015-08-01T16:06:17.420-07:00Sabin Howard Webinars; Intensive Figure Construction and Anatomy for Artists;I would like to announce the beginning of a new webinar series on drawing and designing the figure.<br />
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<br />Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-28477903189833417592015-05-29T17:44:00.000-07:002015-05-29T17:44:04.083-07:00.. Portal Project figures move towards completion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sabin Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742586194876410587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523829970432094685.post-13952696224571714872015-05-06T14:09:00.002-07:002015-05-09T12:54:52.893-07:00Master Sculptor Sabin Howard on creating realist art<span style="background-color: #444444; color: orange; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Ok, Here are my thoughts, and I am totally honest about the art market and figurative art today;</span><br />
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