Javier Marín’s sculptures have a mesmerizing quality. He focuses on the human body but the power of his work comes from the humanity — his ability to fill the objects he creates with emotion, pain and ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s oldest media. By Zoë Lescaze IT’S A CONFUSING time to have a body. On the ...

Sculpture is one of those art forms that demands real patience. A single piece can take hours, sometimes even hundreds, to dream up, plan out, and slowly build into something worth showing off.

In the mid-1940s, as abstract expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still honed their craft into the earth-shattering movement it would soon become, the human figure all but ...

The human figure is fundamental in order to understand scale in illustrations, hyper-realistic renders, collages and three-dimensional representations. However, it often seems to be one of the last ...

A 3D analysis comparing the way fabric falls on a human body versus a low-relief sculpture shows that the Shroud of Turin was not based on a real person. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

There are artists whose work is instantly recognizable. When one sees sculptures of people depicted in slender, elongated forms, Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) comes to mind. The Italian-Swiss ...

The new large-scale art installation is opening Friday at Morton Arboretum, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. “Human+Nature” is by South African artist Daniel Popper and consists of five ...

In architecture, professionals must constantly deal with the challenge of representing a project clearly and understandably before it is built, making the space somehow more perceptible to people who ...