Isamu Noguchi

After posting its much about 3d and my project its time to write about something more personal.

This week I saw a photo of the sculpture "the rape of the sabine woman" from Giambologna on Andies desk as I was bothering him again with my questions *g* So the idea arose in my mind to post something about one of my favored sculptors.

Some of you may know that my history is not very easy to explain... one of its parts include a stay in southern France where I studied/worked in an artists atelier tht was next to a potters workshop. So what I basically did there was painting, scultping clay and drinking wine with the people in this backyard with the workshop.

I refuse to become a 100% PC Nerd. I need both worlds, the CGI and the physical one. I wouln't be able to learn Max as fast as I do without my knowlege in painting (OK, I draw better then I paint...) and sculpting. Maybe it's a once again a yin & yang thing... keep the balance and it will be good and I will be happy. But anyways...

I wanted to say something about ISAMU NOGUCHI. He was an america/japanese sculptur and a friend of the great furniture designer charles Eamus and Buckminster Fuller aka Bucky. I like his minimalistic stile, his reduction and the work on the surface. Sometimes a stone gets through the work on it several different textures what is really great and enriches the perception of it. What I also like a lot on his approach is that he often takes his inspiration out of natural, round forms (his art was called by some people as Biomorphism). For example he made one sculture that looks to me like a piece of a cut branch with all his sidebranches cut away. He reached this effect by making the mayor part of the cylindrical stone piece quite rough and sculpted in some very polished oval shapes in. - just great.

The sculptur I choose as picture is called Heimar and ia located in Jerusalem's jewish museum. Its one of his later (1968) very abstract works so I don't want to look for any resemblance to existing shapes in the nature or the human creations. Once again, I just like the texture and the volume of his work!