Video: Cartoons in sculptures. Clay and plasticine miniatures by Irma Gruenholz
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Or maybe a crow? Or maybe a dog? Or maybe it's the wicked janitor? No, this is a Spanish painter and sculptor Irma Gruenholz presents to the public its clay and plasticine miniaturesthat look like they are three-dimensional frames from cartoons, or real cartoons in sculptures. Bright, funny, colorful, these miniatures make everyone who looks at them smile, and on the Soviet viewers they evoke a nostalgic mood and a desire to revise the cartoon about the plasticine raven. Moreover, the artist works not so much with plasticine as with polymer clay, which, although not so soft, but when it solidifies or baked, it becomes much stronger and stronger than plasticine. However, the author does not refuse other materials that allow her to "revive" footage from cartoons in mini-sculptures, to reproduce scenes from the everyday life of people, animals, fantastic creatures and even food.
So, at first, the artist sculpts figures of people, animals, birds from plasticine, clay, salt dough and soft plastic, and then sets up the necessary lighting for a particular scene, and photographs the resulting installation. In addition to shots from impromptu cartoons, Irma Gruenholz creates three-dimensional models of famous paintings from clay and plasticine, and also works on order for various companies.
Irma Gruenholz's themes are extensive and varied for cute colorful cartoon installations. Here is the problem of the chicken and the egg, and the relationship between parents and children, and adventures in the Indian jungle, and other situations in which the characters of the artist's three-dimensional miniatures find themselves …
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