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Description: | Inscribed, verso: "EROS OF GIBSON OF CONWAY A Stoddart Paisley 2006" CRE STODDART, Alexander; (Scottish; born 1959) Presented by the artist as a token of thanks for the award of an Honorary Doctorate in 2006. Stoddart trained at Glasgow School of Art, and works in a style which is a revival of the Neoclassicism that thrived in the late 18th and early 19th century in the work of artists such as Bertel Thorvaldsen and John Gibson. Stoddart models figures in clay, and casts in bronze. This work is characteristic of his terracotta sketch models (bozzetti), but it has a special meaning to which the artist hints in his title. It refers to the celebrated Tinted Venus by John Gibson (Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery), and to the story of Gibson's inspiration for colouring his marble sculpture, which came, apparently, directly from 'the God'. Stoddart's tribute to Gibson presents the god of love, arm in arm with a statue of Eros, each pointing to the parts of the other that were coloured in Gibson's statue of Venus. Stoddart's statuette makes the point that we cannot tell which is the god, just as in Greek religion statues were regarded not as mere images, but as embodiments of the gods. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | NEOCLASSICISM : MYTHOLOGY : PAINTED VENUS : AMOR : GOD OF LOVE : BOZZETTO : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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