Sculpture is art in three-dimensional form, and Salt
Meadow Gallery is proud to represent works in bronze
and polychromed terra cotta by Heather
Blume. All of the sculptures are figurative, including
each piece of Blume's unique chess set.
Brad Story, a seventh-generation
boat builder, creates "aerodreams" in wood
and fiberglass - - his fanciful pieces often incorporate
components of birds and airplanes.
Brian Volkhausen creates standing wrought iron pieces,
some of which incorporate blown glass pieces from McDermott
Glass Studio. Specialty lighting pieces include floor
and table lamps with glass or rawhide shades as well
as stenciled iron accent lights.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Bronze: Bronze is the most popular
metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast-metal sculpture
of bronze is often called a bronze. Common bronze alloys
often have the unusual and very desirable property of
expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling
the finest details of a mold.
The manufacture of bronzes is highly skilled work,
and a number of distinct casting processes may be employed,
including lost-wax casting (and its modern-day spin-off
ceramic shell casting), sandcasting and centrifugal
casting. In the lost-wax casting method, the artist
starts with a full-sized model of the sculpture, most
often a clay model. A mold is made from the clay pattern;
a wax is then cast from the mold. The wax is then invested
in another kind of mold or shell, which is heated in
a kiln until the wax runs out. The investment is then
filled with molten bronze. Read
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Terra Cotta: Terra cotta
is a hard semifired waterproof ceramic clay used in
pottery and building construction. The term is also
used to refer to items made out of this material. The
name is Italian for "baked earth".
Terra cotta has been used throughout history for sculpture
and pottery, as well as bricks and roof shingles. In
ancient times, the first clay sculptures were dried
(baked) in the sun after being formed. Later, they were
placed in the ashes of open hearths to harden, and finally
kilns were used, similar to those used for pottery today.
Terra cotta usually has a brownish-orange color. Read
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Polychrome: Polychrome
is one of the terms used to describe
the use of multiple colors in one entity. Most often,
the term is used in conjunction with certain styles
of architecture during the Victorian era.
Polychrome building facades rose in popularity as a
way of highlighting certain trim features in Queen Anne
architecture in the United States. The rise of the modern
paint industry following the civil war also helped to
fuel the (sometimes extravagant) use of multiple colors.
The Polychrome facade style faded with the rise of
the 20th century's "revival" movements, which
stressed classical colors applied in restrained fashion.
The polychrome movement reappeared in San Francisco,
California in the 1970s, to describe and remains popular
today on Victorian era houses. During the 1970s, multiple
polychrome house in San Francisco earned the endearment
painted ladies, a term that in 2004 is considered kitsch
when it is applied to describe all Victorian houses
that have been painted with various period colors. Read
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