Ares The God Of War
Bronze · 2019 710 views
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Details
- Category
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 16 × 12 in
- Year
- 2019
- Edition
- Unique piece
- Framed
- No
- Signed
- Yes
Ares is the god of war, one of the Twelve Olympian gods and the son of Zeus and Hera. In literature Ares represents the violent and physical untamed aspect of war, which is in contrast to Athena who represents military strategy and generalship as the goddess of intelligence Bronze mounted on wood
Willem has a classical approach to sculpture He likes to explore the body, whether human or animal Most of his works present a dramatic tension with an unbalanced perception of gravity. He sometimes likes to introduce movement, it is then endangering his compositions which confine to the unstable balance, while revealing each time the nobility and the grace. His admiration for the antique can be seen in his most recent works His pieces are fragmented, he strips his models, he thus conditions the spectators gaze, he upsets it, he hypnotizes it. Willem believe in the words of Leonardo da Vinci that his Art is never finished, only abandoned







