Breath Taking Sculptures by Mark Newman

Beautiful! Great collection! Thanks for sharing.

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.

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

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

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

i don´t like it… boring.

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.

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.

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

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

I actually like them better in gray.

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!

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!

These are totally wondrously breathtaking.

AMAZING sculptures…I’m speechless on the detail level

He obviously likes black people and oddly proportioned white people.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

Impressive sculptures. It looks better plain gray than color.

These are fabulous.

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.