« My art is not about fooling people. It's the human attitudes I'm after—fatigue, a bit of frustration, rejection. To me, there is a kind of beauty in all this. »
Duane Hanson
A few examples of these include his Abortion which depicted a woman undergoing an illicit surgical procedure and Race Riot which involved aCaucasian police officer attacking an African American man. After casting these works Hanson would then paint detailed skin markings, such as blood vessels and facial blemishes, in order to make the sculptures appear as realistic as possible. These sculptures and the social commentary theme were heavily inspired by French realists Honore Daumier and Jean-Francois Millet; both of whom Hanson respected and admired. After 1970 Hanson abandoned his grotesque style and instead focused on more subtle ways of depicting his social comments in his sculpting.One of the ways he accomplished this was that the new style did very little to separate the viewer from the sculpture. Whereas his earlier works were spatially confined, the newer creations lacked definitive boundaries and this combined with his hyper realistic technique would oftentimes quite literally make the viewer feel as though they were within the sculpture.
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Duane Hanson
A few examples of these include his Abortion which depicted a woman undergoing an illicit surgical procedure and Race Riot which involved aCaucasian police officer attacking an African American man. After casting these works Hanson would then paint detailed skin markings, such as blood vessels and facial blemishes, in order to make the sculptures appear as realistic as possible. These sculptures and the social commentary theme were heavily inspired by French realists Honore Daumier and Jean-Francois Millet; both of whom Hanson respected and admired. After 1970 Hanson abandoned his grotesque style and instead focused on more subtle ways of depicting his social comments in his sculpting.One of the ways he accomplished this was that the new style did very little to separate the viewer from the sculpture. Whereas his earlier works were spatially confined, the newer creations lacked definitive boundaries and this combined with his hyper realistic technique would oftentimes quite literally make the viewer feel as though they were within the sculpture.
