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| Interesting choice of art. |
Michael Wilcox of New York, USA, welds wire sculptures
of animals using the "topiary" technique
- placing longitudinal lines across a series of
gradated wire rings for basic form, structure and
support.
Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the
medium of clipped trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs.
The word derives from the Latin word for an ornamental
landscape gardener, topiarius, creator of topia
or "places", a Greek word that Romans
applied also to fictive indoor landscapes executed
in fresco. No doubt the use of a Greek word betokens
the art's origins in the Hellenistic world that
was influenced by Persia, for neither Classical
Greece nor Republican Rome developed any sophisticated
tradition of artful pleasure grounds... |
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