Giants and Midgets - 12 Pictures of Ron Mueck’s Artwork That Will Leave Examining Every Little Detail

October 31st, 2007 | by Ginnie | (Visited 8,645 times)

** Warning: Some of these pictures and video below feature the nude human form and may not be safe for work **

Ron Mueck is an amazing artist. I’m normally not a huge fan of art, but there are some that I find extremely thought provoking.

Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne, Australia, to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.

Mueck then started his own company in London, making models to be photographed for advertisements. He has lots of the dolls he made during his advertising years stored in his home. Although some still have a presence on their own. Many were made just to be photographed from a particular angle - one strip of a face, for example, with a lot of loose material lurking an inch outside the camera’s frame.

Eventually Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the physical presence of the original object, and so he turned to fine art and sculpture.

Mueck’s sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. His five meter high sculpture “Boy” was a feature in the Millennium Dome and later exhibited in the Venice Biennale.

In 2002 his sculpture Pregnant Woman was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for AU $800,000.

(bio from snopes and wikipedia)

Ron Mueck’s Art Masterpieces

There are tons of Mueck photos on the web, but these 12 were my favorite and the ones that seemed to give the most detail. Because some of these works are a bit obscure, I’m not going to list their official names (as few photos I found were categorized correctly under the work’s actual name), but stick to descriptions. If I offend anyone, feel free to comment and I’ll be happy to correct the title of the image

Giant Baby Face

Giant African-American Face

Gossiping Ladies

Huge Boy

Large Man’s Face

Mad Fat Man

La Nina

Old Lady Sitting

Pregnant Woman

Scared Seated Man

Small Couple Spooning

Woman In Bed

Ron Mueck’s Processes And Creations On Video

These is a must watch. The detail of his work is completely profound.

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