Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Duane Hanson



 Duane Hanson artwork in one of a kind.His is art is looked at as Pop Art. Since the 70s he's been creating life size sculptures of people out of bronze or  fiberglass and bondo. He get theses sculpture by casting live models.He even includes himself in one of his pieces.  This gives it the more life like look. The sculpture he creates are posed in various positions depicting everyday  scenes. Some of his most known sculpture scenes are  Accident (1967) which showed a motorcycle crash; and Race Riot (1969–1971) which is seven figures a white policeman terrorizing an African American man as well as an African American rioter attacking the policeman. His art has a very serious conceptually  meaning but at first glance is very comical. The comical part is what I liked at first seeing his work. For example Tourist II, he depicts what the typical tourist would look like back in the 80s early 90s by having the colorful shirts multiple cameras around there neck.  

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