Life-sized

People have always showed interest in life-sized forms of art. One of the most common and amazing is sculpture that seems real people. Duane Hanson is one of the artists that fascinate American people with his sculptures that seem real born because of their scale and the careful way they are done.

According to James Findlay, Duane Hanson’s primary interest was recreating the human form, that’s how he started thinking about life-sized sculptures. At first he started sculpting three-dimensional forms in wood; his very first was a recreation of The Blue Boy when he was only thirteen years old. As he was improving his art, people started noticing and recognizing his work.

In the 1960s pop culture became very popular, which encouraged Hanson to put his determination in his beliefs of naturalistic inclinations. The most important sculpture in this decade was Abortion, this made Hanson to be an art celebrity in all Florida, even though he never liked his own work and he destroyed after he showed it.  (Findlay, 1998)

After this first big work, Hanson’s popularity started increasing from New York to all America; and to the end of 1970s he was well-recognized around the world.

Hanson received many awards before his death in 1996; he will be always remembered as a good Florida artist.

Bibliography

Findlay, James. Broward. 11 January 1998. 20 September 2011 <http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-18/news/30172169_1_prints-recording-barometer-images>.