[Jewelry making - Article 01502] - Re: [Orchid] Detecting quality

[Michael David Sturlin]

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>     So all the famous bronze sculptures in museums are not handmade? 

    Following what James has written, strictly from a technical overview
    of casting as it is applied to a bronze sculptuRe: 

    Let us suppose an artist creates a sculpture in wax, or plastic,
    which can be burned out in the casting process without requiring a
    mold to be made. The artist takes the sculpture to a foundry to have
    the piece made into bronze. Just like all forms of casting the
    process requires surrounding the original wax sculpture with a
    refractory material and burning away the original figure so that a
    void remains which can then be filled with molten metal, in this
    case bronze. The resulting bronze sculpture, although it was produced
    from a hand made wax, is now a cast element. There is no question
    that it is a reproduction of the original sculpture as the original
    model has been lost during the casting process (hence the description
    of this process as "lost wax casting"). The actual original wax
    sculpture was burned away and vaporized in the kiln and subsequently
    replaced by molten metal which solidified. The final bronze
    sculpture, a one of a kind in this scenario, is still a replica,
    albeit an exact replica, of the original sculpture. It can not be
    considered hand made because the resulting form was achieved by
    casting in metal, as the final process, not by sculpting in wax, as
    the original process. 

Michael David Sturlin, jewelry artist
michaelsturlinstudio AT cox.net
www.geocities.com/~jdpn/gallery-sturlin.htm
480.941.4105 Scottsdale, AZ USA



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