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We're Not In Kansas Anymore; Conserving an Ida Kohlmeyer Sculpture AD FREE
🕑 Added 2020-10-08 23:08:37 +0000 UTCWell this doesn't look like a painting at all. But then again, it is decorated with paint just like every painting ever, and the support is wood just like the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting ever. So maybe it is a painting...?
Regardless, this darling little sculpture by Ida Kohlmeyer isn't doing so well and needs a bit of attention. As a paintings conservator I mostly work with, well, paintings yet every now and then an object or sculpture arrives with a situation to which my skillset and knowledge can be applied and as such I take on the project.
In this case, some of the pieces of the sculpture have broken off and need to be re-attached. Sounds simple, right... of course not.
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I love this sculpture. It’s beautiful. And that laser job was amazing. As an artist I would really like to know how you would recommend finishing an acrylic painting? I did not know how sensitive acrylic paints are. I would love see videos of advice to artists. What type of varnish yellows the least? What type of glues to avoid.
Jenny Garber
This generated the usual comments that modern art does over on YouTube but I’m beginning to learn that pieces like this requires more than it appears at first. The piece looks so much better when all the appendages are at correct angles and the longer I look at it the more I like it which I also think is a measure of the “art” in the piece.
