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PLASTER SCULPTURES

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PLASTER SCULPTURES

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Allan Scott always had a passion for sculpturing and still gets an enormous amount of satisfaction creating them . He particularly enjoys work that involves the human figure.

ALLAN SCOTT

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Gary Scott’s, who gave up a successful career to embark on his diploma course at the Art Academy. Gary’s work is abstract with an ambiguity of form and inherently organic feel which draws the viewer in. His sculptures are expressive and convey an energy which imbues them with life. He was awarded the Art Academy Mixed Media Sculpture Prize 2013.

GARY SCOTT’S

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George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999. In 1957, he was included in “Artists of the New York School: Second Generation,” an exhibit at the Jewish Museum. For the next three years he showed annually at the Hansa.

GEORGE SEGAL

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John Rogers (1829–1904) was an American sculptor who produced very popular, relatively inexpensive figurines in the latter 19th century. He became famous for his small genre sculptures, popularly termed "Rogers Groups", which were mass-produced in cast plaster. A total of 80,000 copies of almost 80 Rogers Groups were sold across the United States and abroad.

JOHN ROGERS

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Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art.

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

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Henry Spencer Moore was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures.

HENRY MOORE