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Something New in Art…

December 9, 2021Uncategorizedart, art objects, bronze, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, reincarnation, sculptor, sculpture, virtual sculpturegorebagg

Many years ago, when I was about 19 years old, I decided on art as a professional career, and with the help of Lee Krasner, Elaine deKooning and others, I did rather well, with a few sales in the six-figure numbers, although just barely squeaking by on that measure.

My average softball-sized bronze sculpture went for about $350 at first, in the sixties, then gradually topping off in the $22,000.00 range in the 1980s for my larger and more complex — and therefore more expensive at the foundry — bronze sculptures, usually with onyx bases. Continue reading →

Sculpture in a New World

July 3, 2020Uncategorizedejgold, gorby, gorebagg, jal, reincarnation, sculpting, sculptor, virtual fine art, virtual sculpturegorebagg

In a world of social distancing and quarantine, architectural scale sculpture will not be at the top of the world’s shopping lists anytime soon.

If you know a few billionaires, you might survive as a sculptor, but if not, you’re doomed to turn out little plaster casts of your customers’ faces.

I have a solution. Turn out your architectural sculptures in virtual, then if a client wants the full monty, you can hire engineers to build it for them, sign a name plaque, and send it out for delivery.

You don’t have to actually build the thing. You build a “Proof of Concept” in a virtual world setting, and then you build it for real if someone actually wants it for their home or office. Continue reading →