I have uploaded a photo of two of my portraits (or busts). They were made out of clay, then cast into plaster and finally cement fondu, before being patinated to ressemble bronze. This process saves a fortune (real bronze casting would be about £900) and has been around for hundreds of years.
The title of this post refers to a saying in sculpture: "The clay is the life, the plaster the death, and the bronze the resurrection." From the days when religion and sculpture went hand in hand. In fact in this post-post modern world there is no longer a figurative tradition in the way there once was. Since Duchamp, Cornell and others led us towards conceptual art, anything can be anything so long as it can be justified.
When I was at art college (I only finished last year as a mature student) a lot of people worked in film, and I saw some excellent ideas expressed this way.
But I still look to Brancusi and Manzu for simplified shape and form, their work seems modern even today.
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