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Breath Taking Sculptures by Mark Newman

February 15th in:  Art Works, Sculptures/Modeling
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If you’re our loyal reader you should remember our post Incredibly Realistic Sculptures by Adam Beane. Today we want to represent you another talanted artist Mark Newman and his breath taking sculptures. He is graduated of the Art Academy of San Francisco and have 14 years of professional sculpting. You have a chance to evaluate his talant. In our humble opinion his sculptures look better without paint. How do you think?

 

Steppin’ Out

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Eddie Riggs

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Sisters

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Tuskegee Airman

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Grandpa’s favorite

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The Wise Wanderer

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Serafina

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The Boss

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Big Sexy

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Bride and Groom

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Iris in bloom

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Poe

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February 15th

Beautiful! Great collection! Thanks for sharing.

I think the subject matter is pretty boring but the skill level involved is very high. Yep without paint is best, maybe a golden clay will make them look even better.

February 16th

I love these pieces! I must say that the paint jumps out at me, taking my senses to a whole new level. But the unpainted versions left more to my imagination and that in itself was delightful. Great, great talent – I really dig the Tuskegee Airman.

Honest Commentator
February 17th

What a pretentious answer!

Boxcar Worthington
February 22nd

Well played, good sir.

Amelia
February 22nd

I call unnecessary roughness! Seriously “Honest”. Many artists appreciate more detailed feedback than a simple, “wow that’s cool!” So chill and leave Kim alone. At least her answer was an actual comment on the work, unlike yours.

Cynical responder
February 22nd

The textures of the grainy paint was an orgasm of my eyeball! I could write a whole essay about their magnificence and utter beauty….

Harharhar

Paul
March 5th

What a prat you are, who cares? do some sculpture paint a picture oh no wait I’ll just declare someone is being pretentious wow! how clever are you.

February 20th

Jawdroppingly gorgeous. And yeah, I think it looks better without paint!

February 20th

Really amazing work! The painted ones look great, but I like the soft somber grey of the unpainted ones better.

Molly
February 22nd

Beautiful! Elegant….without paint, they look as if they belong in a museum.

sini
February 22nd

i don´t like it… boring.

Alison
February 22nd

These sculptures are absolutely beautiful. I love the bride and groom and I’d love to own one of them for myself. Where can you buy them? I think I prefer them without paint too.

alison
February 22nd

I agree with sini. These pieces are wonderfully rendered; he clearly has a vast knowledge and understanding of the human form. However they look like they belong in a gift shop. On his website there are much better pieces than these. I wish it said what these sculptures are made out of. The grey colour is ugly and makes the pieces flat and lifeless, but the paint makes them look like toys… so yeah, sini, a little boring.

Sean
February 22nd

Amazing work, the obvious racial preference somehow takes away from the collecton though.

Janelle
February 24th

To play devil’s advocate – the countless other artist of all time who paint or sculpt representations solely of their race isn’t detrimental to the perception…? Or else the Louvre and every other art museum in the world would leave the viewer wanting.

RW
February 24th

Would you say the same if these sculptures showed a preference for euro/whites? Probably not.

Alex
February 24th

I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed that… The art is amazing but there is definitely an obvious lean here…

Meli
February 25th

I’m sure no one would have complained had they been mostly white.

Besides, what should it matter what race the artist chooses to portray? We’re all human. There’s no real difference.

Kris
February 26th

You obviously missed the white bowwoman and Eddie Riggs. And how does the race of the other sculptures take away from their beauty?

Tammy
April 14th

Why does the race matter? I’m an art history major and there are PLENTY of artists who only paint a certain race. Usually they depict their own races; I’m assuming that Newman is black.If every single one of these sculptures were of white people, I bet not one person would have said anything about it. It’s sickening that people think that way. I didn’t even notice the races until someone mentioned it. “the obvious racial preference somehow takes away from the collecton” is basically saying, these sculptures would be better if they weren’t all black. SICKENING!

Megan
June 13th

This makes you sound like you think the white race is clearly superior. Don’t be such a jackass next time. He’s allowed to sculpt whatever he wants.

February 23rd

Very beautiful statues, and beautiful because it is not painted, there is always room for imagination

NoName McGee
February 23rd

I actually like them better in gray.

February 23rd

I liked them all, but I’d have to say that Serafina and Iris in Bloom were my favorites. And I also agree the unpainted versions were fantastic!

Angela
February 23rd

I think that these are clearly amazing and it clear that Mark Newman has talent. I think that with the color you can definitely see much more detail, but it also cheapens the fell of these sculptures. Sometimes less is more. I think that without any treatment, these sculptures do feel unfinished. I would say consider a glaze or something that polishes off the work. If you really do want paint, I think the work done on like “Poe” is more appealing. I would say consider using some highlight colors any maybe mute the rest of the sculpture in a muted neutral, that way if you have something you want to emphasize on the sculpture you can do so. Like the work done on “Serafina” where the arrow is highlighted as a gold. That work is great just finish it off with like a neutral color for the rest of the sculpture. Otherwise, WELL DONE! :) Very talented!

Judith Daniel
February 23rd

These are totally wondrously breathtaking.

February 24th

AMAZING sculptures…I’m speechless on the detail level

Goat Punisher
February 24th

He obviously likes black people and oddly proportioned white people.

Perla
February 25th

My theory is that if this sculptor had made the majority of his subject anglo, race would not commented on. It makes me sad that people are still noticing this…

What I noticed is that the sculptor has a gift for capturing the fluidity of the human form. Many of his subject are full of life and make one truly appreciate the beauty everyday people. I enjoy the gray version more too…simplicity is often under appreciated.

Mysterious
February 25th

There are numerous artist who only sculpt or paint “white” figures. There is nothing wrong with expressing yourself through your art. I once heard a black artist say that he doesn’t focus his pieces on a particular group, but that many of his pieces have black people in them because that’s what he’s surrounded by…that’s what he knows..and that’s where his inspiration comes from. Art is about expression, let it be so. Don’t judge an artist by his material. They have the right.

krisvahl
February 26th

I apologise, Mark Newman DOES sculpt these, and a paintr named Thomas Blackshear paints them. What I don’t understand is that Blackshear sells and promotes the sculptures as HIS work on his website and makes no mention of Newman. Are they one and the same person, is Marc commissioned by Thomas to do these works? You can see my confusion.

http://www.ebonyvisions.cc/xq/ASP/Thomas_Blackshears_Ebony_Visions_Steppin_Out_First_Issue/StockNumber.804619/qx/Ebony_Visions_Detail_Page.htm

Tammy
April 14th

Yeah, i’m totally confused now too.

February 28th

What superb sculptures! Either painted or unpainted they are true art. I love them and if I had to pick one out it would be the Tuskegee airman. So what if they are of African people? It does not matter who they are, compared to some of the crap that is called art these days, they are brilliant.

February 28th

what is amazing is the size: those sculptures seem no that tall. The artist has really depicted some attitudes, in an incredible way.

fxdfp
March 11th

Hey do you use zbrush and 3D printing to accomplish such detail? Or are these traditional maquettes?

rachel
March 12th

What a shame that race has to be an issue for some. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

The sculptures are beautiful and meaningful portraits of humanity. Something we all share, as humans, know what I mean?

March 29th

Impressive sculptures. It looks better plain gray than color.

Genevee
June 1st

These are fabulous.

David
June 14th

It’s not art – these are caricatures. These don’t say anything profound. It is simply a man creating a sculpture of some tired old archetype – they are sentimental, one dimensional, and require nothing of the observer. There is an element of preachiness and vanity as well -these pieces you might find in a lawn ornament catalog not the Louvre.

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