3D modely ART

Masks II at the Quai Branly museum, Paris

The mask hides as much as it reveals, “denies as much as it affirms”, as Claude Lévi-Strauss asserted. Very often the holder of a secret, the mask conceals that which only the initiated should know. The mask’s power also lies in its capacity to incarnate spirits, a link between man and his ancestors, between the visible and the invisible world.  It is inseparable from a mythical context which structures the mode of existence and thought of the majority of traditional societies. Central to the life of a group or a community, the mask, an indispensable intercessor, is always active. This particular mask is the Bas Sepik from the Melanesie region and scanned for us by a volunteer using roughly 50 photographs.


 

náhodný výběr modelů

Eve Fairfax at The V&A, London

Bust of Louis XIV at The Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris

Karel Buls in Brussels, Belgium

The Mummy of Titos Flavios Demetrios in Ipswich Museum, UK

Mask of a Young English Woman in Brussels, Belgium

Sarcophagus panel depicting the Fall of Phaeton at The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg