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Thom Puckey
M.T. with a Pistol, 2008
Conceptual artist Thom Puckey sculpts clay models after real nudes and photographs. These are then cast in plaster, after which assistants carve them perfectly in natural marble. With this quasi-academic sculpture, Puckey refers to the idealized nymphs of 19th-century French salon art by painters su
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ch as Jean-Léon Gérôme and William Bouguereau. It is only in the second instance that you see Puckey’s young dream woman pointing a pistol at her right calf. We seem to have landed in a postmodern film by Quentin Tarantino.
Text: Chris Reinewald
From: Museum MORE: 100 jaar realisme, 2020, Gorssel
Artist
Thom Puckey
Title
M.T. with a Pistol
Year
2008
Technique
Marble
Size
147 x 57 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Sculpture
Copyright
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