Todd Lane
ArtistUSA
About Artist:
Artist's statement: Regardless of the medium, I believe it is only art which speaks truth that holds a lasting resonance with the viewer. Therefore, I do demand anatomical accuracy from my work. However, since art is an interpretation, I also believe that my work is enhanced by incorporating a judicious degree of exaggeration. These are my goals.
"...Todd. A fellow traveler in the world of wonders." -Walter Matia
Polymath Artist: I am a featured and award winning sculptor, illustrator, and a former exclusively black & white newspaper comic strip cartoonist.
"Ostinato Rigore" (relentless rigore) -Leonardo da Vinci
I received my formal art training at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. There I studied a myriad disciplines to include: cartooning, illustration, drawing (all levels), advertising art, design and sculpture. In addition, I studied human anatomy, physiology and kinesiology for 18 months which has benefited me enormously in giving life to my work.
Following art school, I served an extended seven year apprenticeship under master wildlife sculptor Bart Walter. I also studied under master sculptor Walter Matia for over one year and briefly under artist Phillip Ratner.
As a result of my years of formal training, professional understudy and consistent work, I have come to understand that creating fine art is fundamentally about developing the ability to see your subject--any subject--with uncommon clarity. You will not be capable of imbuing your art with a true sense of life until you have learned to see in this way.
And to do so, you must consciously be thinking about: shapes, distances (i.e. positive and negative space), mass, movement and symmetry as you sculpt or draw. It's an ongoing exercise in problem identification and problem solving and the completed art is the result of that process.
In addition to my personal mentors, the artists that I've been most influenced by are: Jacob Epstein, Alexander Pope, Felix de Weldon, Henry Moore, August Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, Jim Unger, Wiley Miller, John Callahan, Bill Mauldin and Berkley Breathed.
About Artwork:
*Winner of the 2020 Jean Wagner Troemel Best In Show Award*
Inspired by country music legend Merle Haggard's hit song "Workin' Man Blues," this sculpture is my tribute to the men in this world that build this world. Men that do muscular labor with their hands and their backs allowing much of humanity to commute, work, live and therefore thrive in the types of environments and circumstances unimaginable mere decades ago. Men whose jobs are, by their very nature alone, dangerous or even deadly and at the very least, require them to shower at the *end* of the work day rather than the beginning. This sculpture is my way of thanking and honoring all of you.
"The Workin' Man" is a limited edition bronze cast sculpture mounted on a one of a kind Florida cypress wood base. The cypress tree is a slow grower adding only one inch in radius every thirty years. Among earth's oldest living tree species, a 2018 study found one bald cypress growing along the Black River in the state of North Carolina to be at least 2,624 years old.
I've applied two treatments of "PC-Petrifier" wood strengthener to all sides of this cypress wood base. I've also included eight, 1 inch "SoftTouch" heavy duty adhesive felt pads designed to protect contact surfaces.
Todd Lane
THE WORKIN MAN
- 2020
- 17 x 26 x 19 inches
- Fine Art Category: sculptures
- Medium: bronze
- Origin: USA
- Certificate of Authenticity: yes
- Issued by: The Artist
- Provenance: Todd Lane
- Signed: Signed lower left
- No / Edition: 1 of 20
- Comments:
This piece was completed utilizing the traditional "lost wax" method of casting bronze sculpture. An ancient process involving no less than 12 individual phases of production dating back more than 5,700 years.
Creating sculpture, for me, involves months or sometimes years of researching my subject's musculoskeletal system. This is followed by many hours of observing that animal or person's gestures, movement and behavior prior to laying clay on the armature.
The term "cold cast bronze" is a misnomer. So called "cold cast bronze" contains no bronze (which is mostly copper), no alloy -- not even plain metal -- at all. It's actually made from a polyester epoxy resin blended with bronze *powder* for coloration. As such, the materials degrade rapidly when compared to the real thing. True bronze lasts an eternity.
All of my sculptures that are cast in bronze are created using "Chavant Fine Art Sculpting Clay" (manufactured in the United States since 1892) and cast by American Bronze Foundry in Sanford, Florida. "ABF" uses shot blasted "873 Alpha Everdur Bronze Ingots" exclusively. This results in 90% pure bronze content (10% silicon & manganese) which is among the highest available purity in the world, providing you the strongest fine art in the world.
Why are some bronze sculptures so inexpensive? Cheap, mass produced knock-offs of many iconic or even original sculptures found mostly on-line and in gift shops (but never in reputable art galleries), are not only produced to the scale of trinkets in order to keep them cheap, but often contain as little as 40% actual bronze. They can therefore technically be advertised as "bronze sculpture." However, their surfaces will be heavily pitted, they will lack many details that were undoubtedly crucial to the artist when the work was originally created, and the artwork will invariably form cracks that cannot be repaired due to the poor quality of bronze.
Lastly, it is a virtual certainty that low-grade bronze art will not have been produced in the U.S.A. with much of it originating in China. Without costly equipment, it's impossible to determine the excessive levels of lead and other metals designated as "toxic" by the EPA, that are potentially contained within bronze artwork produced outside of the United States.
I'm proud of the fact that my bronze sculptures and the bases upon which they rest are 100% produced in the United States of America and are therefore, of an extremely high quality.
My artwork has been jury selected and purchased through galleries in the Washington D.C. area as well as galleries in Florida.
"The bitter taste of poor quality remains long after the sweet taste of low price is forgotten." -John David Stanhope
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- Price: $3,500.00 USD
- Seller: Todd Lane, USA
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About Artist:
Artist's statement: Regardless of the medium, I believe it is only art which speaks truth that holds a lasting resonance with the viewer. Therefore, I do demand anatomical accuracy from my work. However, since art is an interpretation, I also believe that my work is enhanced by incorporating a judicious degree of exaggeration. These are my goals.
"...Todd. A fellow traveler in the world of wonders." -Walter Matia
Polymath Artist: I am a featured and award winning sculptor, illustrator, and a former exclusively black & white newspaper comic strip cartoonist.
"Ostinato Rigore" (relentless rigore) -Leonardo da Vinci
I received my formal art training at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. There I studied a myriad disciplines to include: cartooning, illustration, drawing (all levels), advertising art, design and sculpture. In addition, I studied human anatomy, physiology and kinesiology for 18 months which has benefited me enormously in giving life to my work.
Following art school, I served an extended seven year apprenticeship under master wildlife sculptor Bart Walter. I also studied under master sculptor Walter Matia for over one year and briefly under artist Phillip Ratner.
As a result of my years of formal training, professional understudy and consistent work, I have come to understand that creating fine art is fundamentally about developing the ability to see your subject--any subject--with uncommon clarity. You will not be capable of imbuing your art with a true sense of life until you have learned to see in this way.
And to do so, you must consciously be thinking about: shapes, distances (i.e. positive and negative space), mass, movement and symmetry as you sculpt or draw. It's an ongoing exercise in problem identification and problem solving and the completed art is the result of that process.
In addition to my personal mentors, the artists that I've been most influenced by are: Jacob Epstein, Alexander Pope, Felix de Weldon, Henry Moore, August Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, Jim Unger, Wiley Miller, John Callahan, Bill Mauldin and Berkley Breathed.
About Artwork:
*Winner of the 2020 Jean Wagner Troemel Best In Show Award*
Inspired by country music legend Merle Haggard's hit song "Workin' Man Blues," this sculpture is my tribute to the men in this world that build this world. Men that do muscular labor with their hands and their backs allowing much of humanity to commute, work, live and therefore thrive in the types of environments and circumstances unimaginable mere decades ago. Men whose jobs are, by their very nature alone, dangerous or even deadly and at the very least, require them to shower at the *end* of the work day rather than the beginning. This sculpture is my way of thanking and honoring all of you.
"The Workin' Man" is a limited edition bronze cast sculpture mounted on a one of a kind Florida cypress wood base. The cypress tree is a slow grower adding only one inch in radius every thirty years. Among earth's oldest living tree species, a 2018 study found one bald cypress growing along the Black River in the state of North Carolina to be at least 2,624 years old.
I've applied two treatments of "PC-Petrifier" wood strengthener to all sides of this cypress wood base. I've also included eight, 1 inch "SoftTouch" heavy duty adhesive felt pads designed to protect contact surfaces.
