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Gary Hume Snowman, 1996.. Hume was born in 1962 in Tenterden, Kent.He attended Homewood School.He graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1988. His work was included in both Freeze, an exhibition organised by Damien Hirst in 1988, and East Country Yard, a warehouse exhibition organised by Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas in 1990.
Oct 14, 2016 · Photo: Tony Prikryl. Gary Hume. Standing upwards of ten feet tall, British artist Gary Hume’s larger-than-life sculpture of a snowman, Front of a Snowman, is installed outdoors on the AAM Commons throughout three seasons (fall, winter, and spring). Hume’s snowman—a recurrent and iconic subject in the artist’s work—straddles the line ...
Gary Hume, Back of a Snowman. Back of a Snowman, by British painter and sculptor Gary Hume, is a 10-foot-tall, half-ton sculpture, cast in bronze and covered in white enamel. A graduate from the prestigious Goldsmith’s College of Art in London, Hume is one of a generation of artists that became known around the world as the Young British ...
Back of a Snowman (Black) In the audio guides available for free to John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park visitors, the Des Moines Art Center’s assistant curator Laura Burkhalter speaks with great interest about the glossy surfaces of this pair of sculptures by the British artist, Gary Hume. The work of the Young British Artists (YBA) group ...
Gary Hume is best known for his stylized depictions of everyday objects using high-gloss industrial paint. Hume's work often refers to pure forms with bright and simplified colors. The larger-than-life scale of the Snowman is iconic for the recurrent subject in the artist's oeuvre. By blurring the line between representation and abstraction ...
Gary Stewart Hume (born 9 May 1962) is an English artist. ... Gary Hume. Snowman (for Parkett no. 48) 1996. Gary Hume, Gabriel Orozco, Pipilotti Rist, Rudy Burckhardt ...
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An engagement with icons which have art-historical associations is also evident in Hume’s practice. ‘Back of Snowman’ recalls how Michaelangelo was commissioned to make only one sculpture during the reign of Piero de’ Medici, who on a childish whim after a heavy snowfall in January 1494, ordered a showman from the sculptor. Medium.
