Carl Milles

Carl Milles (1875-1955) was a Swedish sculptor who spent many years in America, leaving numerous works in both countries.He is probably most famous for his fountains; above is Poseidon, in Gothenburg.He installed multiple copies of some of his works in different parts of the world, so I have had trouble getting correct dates for some of the statues.He was a cla*sicist in two senses: most of his works depict cla*sical subjects, and his style was based on cla*sical proportions that he modified into something that draws on both muscular socialist realism and the perspective distortions of modernism.Above, the version of God's Hand, (1953).I like these works, and they speak to me about the difficulty of working as a cla*sical artist in a world devoted to novelty.

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