Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor


	Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor
LisPark
7-17-2009 11:14 AM
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art, sculpture, sculpting
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"He so nearly captures that extra bit, what we call the soul or spirit, that flame inside that makes us ourselves. He takes one to the very edge of the idea of life, calls into question what it is to be a person, what it is to be human. - Marina Warner."
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92b046dd-ce47-48d2-9346-3ce876b21db4/C1E6B409-9D1C-49E5-946B-398E52160119/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/" href="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/" style="font-size: 11px;">paintalicious.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paintalicious.org/img/28F41AAF-5294-4487-BB48-F9325ED9C0CC" alt="rm01.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><P><STRONG>Ron Mueck</STRONG> is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi’s living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say,  Mueck’s one of the leading contemporary artists of today.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paintalicious.org/img/7A2858BD-16C1-43AA-BB90-580D45C15F53" alt="baby00.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paintalicious.org/img/F5CB3B01-2A23-4212-84ED-1AC2994122C9" alt="mov_baby.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paintalicious.org/img/84EC87A3-C244-4C87-83C3-94CEE2332639" alt="bebegiganteql2.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><P>His early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television and films, notably the film “Labyrinth” staring Bowie. Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry. This eventually led him to conclude, “photography pretty much destroys the physical presence of the original object”, and so he turned to fine art, in particular, sculpture.<SPAN id="more-309"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paintalicious.org/img/43EA632B-FB29-4836-BB52-B0500EA28B9E" alt="spooningcouple.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paintalicious.org/img/BCBBBD24-7DFA-4D97-A2C5-3CECA378A96F" alt="couple_001.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/paintalicious.org/img/AD3BC5BA-FF18-4689-90CD-A1A6DAAE368E" alt="handsandcouple.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/"><P>In the early 1990s, still in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and was wondering what material would do the trick.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; 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