Artist Study – Antony Gormley
We like to pick an artist every so often and study his or her work in depth. The latest artist we have looked at is Antony Gormley.
One of his famous works of art is called The Field.
Karl and Aoife put together some information about this work of art.
THE FIELD
- Antony is a British sculptor and most of his work is on the human body.
- The figures in the field represent the human race.
- All the figures are unique because each of them were made by different people.
- Each one measures between 8 and 26cm and are all different shapes and sizes.
- Each of the figures are facing the one direction to represent our individuality.
- It also represents our loneliness; being in a crowd yet not interacting.
- The edge of The Field is a straight line representing the extent of human development.
- The Field contains 40,000 figures made with 30 tonnes of clay which works out at 75g per figure.