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"Violetta"
Bronze
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17" x 5" x 4" |
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| For more than a
generation, Howard Hitchcock has been a
sculptor and university professor of
art, devoting decades to perfecting the
art of ceramic shell casting. As the
artist noted in the preface to his
instructional book, Out of the Fiery
Furnace (William Kaufmann, Inc. 1985),
“Ceramic shell casting is the most
spectacular art process imaginable,
particularly at the crescendo of a night
pour when the glowing, golden stream of
liquid bronze flows into the red-hot
shell, bringing it to neon incandescence
in the dark.” |
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To help us better understand this
exciting process, the preface begins: “Lost-wax
casting is truly an ancient and venerable art that
has been practiced in diverse cultures and
continents over thousands of years. The most modern
approach to that ancient process, dating from only
the mid-point of the twentieth century, is ceramic
shell casting. Instead of being encased in the
traditional solid-block mold that weakens in the
heat of burnout, the wax model is thinly coated with
a ceramic material that is fired by the burnout into
a hard, lightweight shell for receiving the molten
bronze. In both cases, whatever was wax becomes
bronze.” |
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| Hitchcock’s artistic
vision belies the seriousness of his skills
and intellect: Every remarkable bronze he
creates is infused with a sophisticated
sense of humor that challenges viewers to
work out its cleverness. In the artist’s
bronze sculptures stylized human forms blend
into the structure of objects both imagined
and ordinary as the artist uses human forms
to form the spokes of wheels, to push
over-sized envelopes or to perch atop a
blade in a piece entitled, “On the Cutting
Edge.” |
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"Sextet"
Bronze
Sculpture
18" x 6" x 3" |
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"Tower of
Four Winds"
Bronze
Sculpture
30" x
7" x 6"
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"Reclining Figure"
Bronze
Sculpture
13" x 24" x 14" |
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"Sonatina"
Bronze
Sculpture
19" x 6" x 3" |
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"Highstrung"
Bronze
Sculpture
19" x 5" x 3"
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"Look, No Hands"
Bronze
Sculpture
20" x 20" x 10"
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"On the Cutting Edge"
Bronze
Sculpture
14" x 7" x 5" |
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Artist's prices
beginning at
$395.
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