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Vera Molnar [France] (b 1924) ~ ‘Carrés’, 1973. Computer printed pattern.

Nan Goldin, Clemens Under Water, Sag Harbor, NY, Made of Cibachrome print

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Laure Prouvost

Ian Taylor | @ian.explores

Robin Uthe | @robinxbenjamin

The ‘Lysippos’ Apoxyomenos - This well studied large-scale carving of a torso in black basalt after the Roman antique of ‘The Scraper’, depicted life-size, stands in contrapposto, his weight on his left leg, the right slightly advanced, with his left arm projecting forward, the overall figure with softly-modeled musculature.  Where, the sculpture is commonly represented by the Pentelic marble copy, as it stands in the Museo Pio-Clementino in Rome, when it was discovered and then excavated in Trastevere, in the middle of the 19th century, plaster casts did soon found their way among academic collections. This sculpture, slightly larger than lifesize, is characteristic of the new canon of proportion pioneered by Lysippos, with a slightly smaller head (1:8 of the total height, rather than the 1:7 practiced ratio adopted by Polykleitos) and longer and thinner limbs. Black basalt is a very fine-grained igneous rock and is rarely used in sculpture due to its incredible hardness.  The overall work appearance, with its hematite-like luster is divine, and magnificent; almost ‘magic’.