Living sculpture "grandfather" hyperrealism - Duane Hanson (Duane Hanson) Bashny.Net

Unfortunately, the American did not live to see this day, and his work for the past fifteen years is considered to be part of history. In 1996, the year of the great contemporary sculptor died. Dwayne almost seventy-one years.

However, its success is unlikely someone can repeat, because he was a pioneer in its style. The peak of popularity for Duane Hanson (Duane Hanson) was in the mid-sixties of the last century. Then, at the peak of popularity were abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and others. Duane decided to call and began to create the most lifelike sculptures of ordinary average Americans. Thus it appeared the first idea of ​​hyper-realism in American sculpture. Hanson's works have always been dire social, because he never set out to "sculpt" someone famous. For him, the best source of inspiration has always been ordinary people.