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Before the development of current welding technology, sculptures made from metal were either cast or forged, and welding was primarily used in the construction industry. The first welded sculptures were credited to the Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin, [1] who created his first piece of art in 1913. Tatlin was an important figure in the Russian ...
Ferrocement is used to construct relatively thin, hard, strong surfaces and structures in many shapes such as hulls for boats, shell roofs, and water tanks. Ferrocement originated in the 1840s in France and the Netherlands and is the precursor to reinforced concrete. It has a wide range of other uses, including sculpture and prefabricated ...
Jack was primarily a welded steel sculptor. His work reflected those who had influenced him. Many of his early works were figurative. His later works integrated hard steel forms with welded steel figures. He had a vision of art that was truly unique. Often, he would disassemble his works and rearrange them to suit his mood.
Julio González Pellicer was born in Barcelona, on September 21, 1876.He came from a line of metalsmith workers; his grandfather was a goldsmith in Galicia. [1] González's father, Concordio González, owned a workshop and as a young boy, González learned from him the techniques of gold, silver, and iron metalwork.
Traditionally, metal sculpture meant bronze casts, which artisans produced using a mold made by the artist. Smith, however, made his sculptures from scratch, welding together pieces of steel and other metals with his torch, in much the same way that a painter applied paint to a canvas; his sculptures are almost always unique works.
Melvin Edwards, an African-American sculptor of abstract art, had been experimenting with welding small metal scraps together for several years in the early 1960s, while living in Los Angeles. [2] In 1963, this experimentation resulted in a small relief sculpture that began his Lynch Fragments series.
This sculpture is about 3.5 metres (11 ft) tall, and was produced by the WMF Company in Germany. Electrotyping has been used for the production of metal sculptures, where it is an alternative to the casting of molten metal. These sculptures are sometimes called "galvanoplastic bronzes", although the actual metal is usually copper.
Pevsner was born as Natan Borisovich Pevzner [2] in Oryol, Russian Empire, [3] into a Jewish family. Among the originators of and having coined the term, Constructivism, and pioneers of Kinetic Art, Pevsner and his brother Naum Gabo discovered a new use for metals and welding and made a new marriage of art and mathematics.