The Tiller of the Earth - a sculpture of a farmer

in #artzone8 years ago (edited)

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I really enjoyed creating this sculpture on the subject of farming. When I receive a sculpture commission, I start by looking for a model. I found an excellent model who happened to be my next door neighbor. When I asked him if he would pose, he said he had always dreamed of becoming a farmer. Such serendipity!
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I also look at other sculpture on the same subject. This piece by Paul Landowski in the Tuileries gardens in Paris France greatly inspired me.
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I placed my farmer in a horseshoe shaped form on which I sculpted two medallions in bas-relief. One of corn, the other of soybeans. On the base of the piece is a bas-relief of the first American steel plow.
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The sculpture was cast in bronzed resin and placed in front of a school in Illinois.
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The Farmer, by W.D. Ehrhart
...
I don’t complain—except
to passersby who ask me why
I work such barren earth.
They would not understand me
if I stooped to lift a rock
and hold it like a child, or laughed,
or told them it is their poverty
I labor to relieve. For them,
I complain. A farmer of dreams
knows how to pretend. A farmer of dreams
knows what it means to be patient.
Each day I go into the fields.

Hope, Steemit community, that you enjoy this post. Upvotes, comments, resteeming, all are welcome.

My website: www.kathleenscarboro.fr

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Wow, just wow!!!

Thank you! It was a fun project.

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This is truly amazing!!!

I would like to invite you to be our guest artist on "Artzone Artist Feature"?

Please if you are interested, you can send me your telegram handle or message me through mine - Chiama1

I hope to hear from you soon 😊😊

Hello @chiama, I do not have a telegram account but am on messenger and facebook. I would be happy to be a guest on Artzone Artist Feature. Glad you like my work.

ok that is great, we can use messenger. please send me your messenger ID so we can talk over there.

It is connected to my fb account: https://www.facebook.com/kathleen.scarboro
Looking forward to chatting with you soon.

Hi, sent you a message on messenger. Looking forward to your reply

There is nothing that can hit me as a sculpture. Even I am painter, no painting gives me chills like when I see sculpture I like. First time I saw Rodin in Prague museum, my legs cut of :) Not to mention my urge to touch Henry Moore pieces, had problem to hold myself several times @kathleenscarboro.
Another great piece and thank you for sharing pics of model itself.

So glad you like it @jungwatercolor, sculpting directly from a live model is challenging and exciting. Sculpture does have its own charm. Rodin is incredibly expressive.

Rodin is nice but i mistrust his work as he often took his students work and claimed it as his own, but i totally understand the sentiment :) creating sculptures is almost like creating golems you expect them to move at some point :)

Yes @tygertyger, we try to breathe life into our sculptures.

Great work👏

Another amazing piece. I love that your subject now gets to be a farmer for eternity in sculpture form :)

It is kind of neat the way that worked out, isn't it. Glad you like the sculpture.

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