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The Sculptor's Funeral Podcast
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Welcome to the Sculptor's Funeral Podcast CZcams channel! Here you'll find all the episodes of the ONLY podcast dedicated to the history and the future of figurative sculpture.
Be sure to check out the playlists, which organize many of the episodes thematically (The Renaissance, Antiquity, Interviews, et c.)
To enjoy the image galleries associated with each episode, click the link below!
Be sure to check out the playlists, which organize many of the episodes thematically (The Renaissance, Antiquity, Interviews, et c.)
To enjoy the image galleries associated with each episode, click the link below!
Episode 88 - Greco-Roman Wrestling
The Venus De Milo, the Torso Belvedere, The Winged Victory, The Laocoon - some of the most famous Antique sculpture in the world. Strange that we know so little about who made them and why! So what makes them so famous? Find out the unexpected reasons here.
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Episode 05 - Canons of proportion
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The history of canons of proportions and their use by sculptors is discussed in this week's episode. From the Egyptians up to the present day, artists have sought the key to caputring an ideal, or a norm, in human form. As it happens, notions of ideals - and of what we consider normal - change over time, which has given rise to dozens of canons practiced by different artists at different times....
Episode 08 - Cellini, in his own words
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The sculptor of the famous Perseus and Medusa, Benvenuto Cellini, might have been a one-hit wonder if it were not for his other masterpiece, his Autobiography - the first from an artist. In his book, Cellini details the construction and casting of his Perseus - a precious firsthand account of a Renaissance sculptor at work - as well as his exploits as a nasty, brutish, jealous, pandering thug w...
Episode 06 - Michelangelo, man and Myth
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The Divine Michelangelo - The man could do no wrong. ...At least, according to Michelangelo. One of his lasting legacies, apart from his art, is the mythology about his life and work that he himself perpetuated through the commissioning of a biography. But legends aside, Michelangelo still is one of the gresatest artists ever to have lived. This episode discusses his early years as an artist, h...
Episode 03 - What is Clay?
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Have you heard the old studio saying that clay gets better the more you use it? how and why does that work? In this shop talk eposide, Jason discusses more than you ever wanted to know about clay - its composition, its properties, and how we can alter our own clay to get it to do what we want. be sure to check out the episode's image gallery over at www.thesculptorsfuneral.com, were there are p...
Ep.02 - Donatello, an Introduction
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In this episode, The life and work of Donatello are discussed, in relation to his influence for all European sculpture which followed. Host Jason Arkles makes a case for Donatello as being the single most influential sculptor in the last 700 years.
Episode 01 - Introduction, and The End
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Jason introduces himself, explains what this podcast is all about, and why he calls it The Sculptor's Funeral; and then, discusses the near-death experience of figurative sculpture during the 20th century.
Episode 04 - Alberti and De Statua
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If you sculpt, you probably have a small library of how-to sculpture manuals. Sculptors writing about sculpture goes way back - but how far back? In this episode, Host Jason Arkles discusses the f sculpture manual that was written during the early renaissance by the original Renaissance Man, Leon Battista Alberti. A personal friend of Donatello, Brunelleschi, and Ghiberti, Alberti's treatise on...
Episode 09 - Giambologna
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Giambologna's remarkable and prolific career is the missing link between the Renaissance and the Baroque, between Michelangelo and Bernini, and between medieval and modern conceptions of how a sculptor's career is conducted. So many elements which Giambologna pioneered in his work - casting works in editions, jobbing out technical aspects of sculpture to specialists, and the decorative, small s...
Episode 67 - Interview with Michael Defeo
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In this interview, Jason talks with Michael Defeo, a sculptor who has developed dozens of characters for animated features like Ice Age and Despicable Me, using every tool at his disposal, from clay to Zbrush and beyond. But what is 'digital' sculpting? Is it 'really' sculpting? How does it work? Mike and Jason discuss these questions and more.
Episode 14 - Bernini, Part One
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Apollo and Daphne, Pluto and Persephone, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa... Never has a single sculptor produced as many absolute masterpieces as Gianlorenzo Bernini. In this first of a two-part episode, Jason discusses Bernini's biography and his important early works which initiated the Baroque Era of sculpture.
Episode 16 - The French Connection
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Exactly how and when did the focus of European art move from Florence and Rome, to Paris? This episode explores the rise of the French academic system and the forerunners of the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts and the Paris Salon under the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV.
Episode 49 - Tools: If you want something done right....
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Today's podcast features interviews of three sculptors - Matt Kindy, Spencer Schubert, and Philippe Faraut - who have found that the best quality sculpture tools are the ones they make themselves. And luckily for us, these sculptors also handcraft their high quality tools in small amounts and make them available to others.
Episode 15 - Bernini and the Total Work of Art
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Bernini Part Two! We discuss how Bernini sought to combine color, sculpture light and architecture into a single, unified, and total work of art. But Bernini went beyond even that, by creating what can be described as 'layered realities' within several of his works resulting in some of the richest and most complex sculptures ever created.
Episode 42 - TRAC 2015
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The Representational Art Conference was the largest event of the year for the world of figurative art. Host Jason Arkles speaks with Michael Pearce, Alicia Ponzio, and Poppy Field, all participants in this year's TRAC in different ways.
Episode 10 - From Apprentice to Academy
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Episode 10 - From Apprentice to Academy
Episode 17 - What's So Neo about Neoclassicism?
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Episode 17 - What's So Neo about Neoclassicism?
Episode 38 - The Baptistery Competition
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Episode 38 - The Baptistery Competition
Episode 45 - From Terra Cruda to Terracotta
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Episode 45 - From Terra Cruda to Terracotta
Episode 39 - Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Gates of Paradise
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Episode 39 - Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Gates of Paradise
Episode 31 - Rodin Part Two: Off the Pedestal
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Episode 31 - Rodin Part Two: Off the Pedestal