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Jewelry Sculpture

Exquisite Nautilus jewelry art masterpieces

27.09.201528.04.2024

Exquisite Nautilus jewelry art masterpieces
The Golden Ratio is widely used in art, architecture and religious symbols by great artists. Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed, has the shape of a nautilus shell. Scientists came to the conclusion that people find beautiful work of art, buildings and even a person who meets the proportions of the golden Ratio.

Nautilus shell symbolizes The Golden Ratio. The proportion of golden section is known as the phi number – 1.61803 … to infinity number after the decimal point – the “key to the physics of the cosmos” (Plato).
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Architecture Sculpture

Exquisite Meenakshi Amman Temple

23.09.201528.04.2024

Exquisite Meenakshi Amman Temple
Undoubtedly, it can impress anyone who ever saw it, without making exceptions. Even such experienced and sophisticated traveler as Marco Polo could not help praising its delightful architecture. The Temple listed among New Seven Wonders of the World is true work of architectural art.
33 thousand magnificent sculptures, painted in bright colors cover the walls and pillars from top to bottom. Besides, the temple is the center of education, culture, literature, art, music and dance for Tamil people. Among the prominent people depicted in carved figures – Rati (wife of Kama), Karthikeya, Ganesha, Shiva, and many more. And of course, alongside with them – endless number of mythical figures of yali – beast with body of lion and head of an elephant. The Temple includes Art Museum exhibiting icons, photographs, drawings, and other exhibits of the 1200 years old history of the temple. And among the most interesting objects of the temple are the Musical Pillars, which produce a different musical note when struck.
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Applied Art Sculpture

Russian Doll master Olga Yegupets

13.09.201530.04.2024

Doll master Olga Yegupets

Talented doll master Olga Yegupets – member of Union of artists of Russia (2007). Born Olga Sergeyeva, into a family of artists, in Kazakhstan, she grew up and studied in the northern town of Russia – Nadym. In 1994, Olga entered Abramtsevo Industrial Arts College where she studied artistic ceramics to become an artist-master of arts and crafts. After graduating from the College with honors in 2000, she entered Moscow Pedagogical University, faculty of Art graphics. And she graduated from it with a degree in Applied and folk art. Creativity of Olga Yegupets became very popular among collectors and lovers of art dolls, both in Russia and abroad. When making her cute dolls, Olga uses a variety of materials, including plastics, Paper clay, and others. Besides, all dolls are made by hand, without the use of pre-printed forms. And, of course, each work is made in one piece.
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Applied Art Miniature Sculpture

Olga Maltseva ceramic art

11.09.201530.04.2024

Olga Maltseva ceramic art
Talented St. Petersburg based ceramic artist Olga Maltseva has created a beautiful collection of dolls. They are the characters of the wonderful fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland” – Alice, Hatter, the March Hare and the Cheshire Cat. All works are performed entirely by hand without the use of preprinted forms. Engobe painted and glazed, there were two high-temperature sintering. Soon the company will join Blue Caterpillar and the Queen of Hearts. Olga Maltseva lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Nature Sculpture

Atlanta Botanical Garden green sculpture

22.08.201524.09.2019

Atlanta Botanical Garden green sculpture – one of the main local attractions. Founded in 1976, the garden covers an area of 12 hectares, being located in the central part of the city and neighbor of Piedmont Park. Visitors can not only admire the rich collection of plants, but also exhibitions that are held periodically. For example, in 2004 there was an exhibition of works of glass, which for eight months had been visited by 425,000 people. And in 2013 took place an impressive green sculpture exhibition «Imaginary Worlds».
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Applied Art Miniature Sculpture

Doll artist Larisa Isayeva

05.08.201514.11.2025

Alenushka, Khokhloma stylized doll, handmade — Wearing traditional Russian folk costume Alyonushka, Khokhloma stylized, handmade. Creation by Doll artist Larisa Isayeva

Russian doll artist Larisa Isayeva (kuklaelli) lives and works Yekaterinburg. She creates dolls on different themes – fairy-tale characters, movie characters, cartoons, literary characters, dancers, puppets of different nationalities, and more.

Larisa Isayeva works in mixed technique, and in particular, she combines the modeling of polymer clay and textile parts on a flexible framework, as well as sculpting articulated dolls from polymer clay. Like cartoon characters, her dolls “come alive” because they are mobile and can change poses due to wire frame.
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Sculpture

Ceramic story by Olga Semenovskaya

03.08.201525.09.2019

First of all, Ceramic story by Olga Semenovskaya, craftswoman from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, leaves nobody indifferent. Besides, each of these bright in fantasy figurines is unique, and done manually. “Ladybug, though she is just a girl, and is still small, but she knows how to fly”, says the author of the figurine. Indeed, nobody could imagine that the ladybug was not immediately a lady, and she once was just a little girl, even though she could fly. And no one could imagine Mermaid on wheels, or snail girls. What an incredible flight of fantasy! That’s what happens when the talent of an artist and a story-teller joins in the ceramics. By the way, Olga Semenovskaya is really a gifted writer, and an artist, that is why each of her creations is a charismatic character of an amazing story.
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