Please help ID modern/post-modern sculptor

zetah · August 31st, 2011, 12:24 PM

Hi,

I found by Google that user can ask here question about identifying artwork or artist, and I want to ask similar question

Couple of times before I tried to identify sculptor, as I had photos of some of his works, but unfortunately to me, I lost them. I couldn't find it.

Yesterday accidentally I found image that resembled one of the sculptures so much, that I contacted author that made the image and asked him about his influence and explained my quest. He replied that he did not use sculpture as influence, but Google image search with some keywords that led him to idea of creating origami-like meshes in Blender (3D design and ray-tracer tool).

[gray-scaled excerpt showing relevant part]

So it seems that origami meshes can't be too different when making similar object. I had spare time and thought to concentrate on this puzzle and spent more then 4h of searching, taking any straw that could lead me to this artist or sculpture.

- First I queried Google image search, with what seemed to be obvious patterns to track the sculpture. As I mentioned it wasn't my first time, but now I really tried to make queries relevant as possible, plus I used "similarity serch". No results. Could be that image with sculpture I'm after isn't indexed by Google at all.
- I browsed around 30 modern sculptors, using wikipedia as source and then their names used in Google image search. Still nothing. Authors that looked enough suspicious were: Alexander Calder, David Smith, Tony Smith. But none of tham was what I was looking for.

Search quest was nice, but 4h got me frustrated with no results. So I thought to ask for help and let me explain this more:

- Sculpture I'm referring through attached image was made from shiny steel
- It was 2-3 meters in height approx IIRC
- Scene was by some old (English?) castle, making interesting unreal contrast with sculpture itself
- Sculpture act/pose was almost like in attached picture, only without the head and tail - it was headless and it did not have any tail
- Artist is male, but I don't know if he is still alive

Thanks

saintmarc · September 1st, 2011, 08:56 PM

Xavier Veilhan and Versailles as the "old castle"?
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=...12 64&bih=825

zetah · September 1st, 2011, 10:40 PM

to repeat myself as in other forum, thank you saintmarc for your reply

Judging from images I saw this should definitely be the artist I was looking for. Only I could not find sculpture I had in mind. Also I thought by some unknown reason that sculptor was a bit older, but I might have connected different things.

I searched Google with his name, then his whole portal, and some links provided there. For example, this sculpture http://www.veilhan.net/rubrique-2335/cible-2017.html somehow assures me that this is the author I was searching for. If I find mentioned sculpture in the meantime I'll post again to let you now

Thanks and cheers

August 31st, 2011, 12:24 PM	#1
zetah Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2	Please help ID modern/post-modern sculptor Hi, I found by Google that user can ask here question about identifying artwork or artist, and I want to ask similar question Couple of times before I tried to identify sculptor, as I had photos of some of his works, but unfortunately to me, I lost them. I couldn't find it. Yesterday accidentally I found image that resembled one of the sculptures so much, that I contacted author that made the image and asked him about his influence and explained my quest. He replied that he did not use sculpture as influence, but Google image search with some keywords that led him to idea of creating origami-like meshes in Blender (3D design and ray-tracer tool). [gray-scaled excerpt showing relevant part] So it seems that origami meshes can't be too different when making similar object. I had spare time and thought to concentrate on this puzzle and spent more then 4h of searching, taking any straw that could lead me to this artist or sculpture. - First I queried Google image search, with what seemed to be obvious patterns to track the sculpture. As I mentioned it wasn't my first time, but now I really tried to make queries relevant as possible, plus I used "similarity serch". No results. Could be that image with sculpture I'm after isn't indexed by Google at all. - I browsed around 30 modern sculptors, using wikipedia as source and then their names used in Google image search. Still nothing. Authors that looked enough suspicious were: Alexander Calder, David Smith, Tony Smith. But none of tham was what I was looking for. Search quest was nice, but 4h got me frustrated with no results. So I thought to ask for help and let me explain this more: - Sculpture I'm referring through attached image was made from shiny steel - It was 2-3 meters in height approx IIRC - Scene was by some old (English?) castle, making interesting unreal contrast with sculpture itself - Sculpture act/pose was almost like in attached picture, only without the head and tail - it was headless and it did not have any tail - Artist is male, but I don't know if he is still alive Thanks

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September 1st, 2011, 08:56 PM	#2
saintmarc Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 347	Xavier Veilhan and Versailles as the "old castle"? http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=...12 64&bih=825

September 1st, 2011, 10:40 PM	#3
zetah Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2	to repeat myself as in other forum, thank you saintmarc for your reply Judging from images I saw this should definitely be the artist I was looking for. Only I could not find sculpture I had in mind. Also I thought by some unknown reason that sculptor was a bit older, but I might have connected different things. I searched Google with his name, then his whole portal, and some links provided there. For example, this sculpture http://www.veilhan.net/rubrique-2335/cible-2017.html somehow assures me that this is the author I was searching for. If I find mentioned sculpture in the meantime I'll post again to let you now Thanks and cheers