Amber Listserv / Sculpture question

[Andy Ng]

Yes Hans you're right. I saw a photo that sculpture from which Moore
supposedly drew inspiration. Heck, if he can do it, so can I. Yanked out a
nice chunk of butterscotch for my 1st attempt. Will take photos of the
progress. Thanks for the info!

Andy



On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Hans Henderickx <cavexplorer at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Andy,
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> Actually the stolen reclining figure made by Henry Moore was already a free
> interpretated copy of the Toltec-Mayan sculpture from Chichen Itzá known
> as 'Chacmool' (Henry Moore did see a plaster cast of it in the Trocadero
> museum, Paris). Moore changed the position of the legs somewhat on his
> Bronze, you might do that again, Andy, so that it's not actually a direct
> copy.
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> Hans
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