What is Antony Gormley most known for?
Antony Gormley, in full Antony Mark David Gormley, (born August 30, 1950, London, England), British sculptor and draftsman best known for his work with human forms, which he created chiefly from casts of his own naked body.
Where is the field by Antony Gormley?
American Field consists of approximately 35,000 individual terracotta figures between 8 and 26 cm each, installed on the floor of a room facing the audience. American Field has been installed and exhibited at various locations, with the configuration changing to suit each venue.
What did Antony Gormley design?
Angel of the North
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What is Antony Gormley’s obsession?
From the Angel of the North to his cast iron figures gazing out to sea near Liverpool, Antony Gormley has a lifelong obsession with the human form and its many representations.
How does Antony Gormley create his artworks?
In the late 1970s Gormley studied sculpture at the Slade School of Art and it was at this time that he first used lead as medium for his work. During the mid 1980s Gormley was using a range of materials such as concrete, iron and clay. In many of his sculptures he works directly from his own body.
When did Antony Gormley create the domain Field?
All of these questions and more are explored by Antony Gormley in his celebrated work Domain Field, made up of hundreds of sculptures of human forms. Domain Field was originally commissioned by the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in the UK in 2003. Volunteers aged from two to 85 were moulded in plaster by teams of specially trained staff.
What kind of sculpture is a domain by Antony Gormley?
A DOMAIN is constructed of stainless steel bars of various lengths, with the finished installation including a collection of 287 sculptures. The work needs to be inhabited by the living bodies of the viewers (which in Gateshead included many of the friends and relatives of the participants). It is their motion through the piece that made the work.
Where was Antony Gormley’s Amazonian field made?
Amazonian Field was made in Porto Velho, Brazil, and is made of approximately 24,000 figures. The artist described this sculpture as an occupation of sculptural space by the powerless – the numerous dumb, mute, unformed clay miniature figures that make up this sculpture.
Where does Antony Gormley do most of his work?
Gormley is widely regarded as Britain’s best-known sculptor with permanent public artworks existing in locations around the world, including Liverpool’s Crosby beach, the Austrian Alps, and Sao Paolo in Brazil. He continues to work actively to date and has recently branched into more digitally-informed projects.