Ron Mueck, a hyper-realist sculpture, has a definite attention to detailed sculpture. He is a UK artist with a lot of his work shown at the national gallery. His installations and exhibitions have gained him world fame. All though I think he is talented, a lot of his work is gross sculpture in my book.

Duane Hanson

Duane Hanson is arguably one of the best, and certainly my favorite figurative sculptor. Using a number of different medium, painted bronze, silicon, rubber, plaster. He captures not only realistic faces and bodies, but also a by gone Ara of the 70's and early 80's that is forever shown in his art. His work borders on edgy and controversial.

J. Seward Johnson

J. Seward Johnson create life size and large scale sculpture of people, a lot of them done just with foam, paper and paint. It gives me a good feeling as an artist to know you can build such awesome art with such cheap materials, and get such a sculpted beautiful form.

Fantastic sculpture made from paper and foam

http://www.sculpture.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/955

Great online resources and websites for contemporary figurative sculpture

Big one!! - sculpture.net

Artists for Michael O'brian Contemporary Art Gallery

Michael O'brian Contemporary Art Gallery is looking for figurative sculptors for future exhibition. All art works will be for sale. The type of sculptures needed are can fit any of the following criteria:
- that reflect contemporary political, cultural, and social issues
- are edgy
- celebrity your disqusted with
- must be life size, any smaller works will be considered if they are highly detailed like Ron Mueke's work.

We ar looking for sculptures that are like the work of the following artists:

duane hanson:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=duane%20hanson&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Ron Mueke:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=ron+mueck&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title


And these other artists:

http://www.daylife.com/photo/0aol5Xj11R5gK
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article18524.ece
http://www.dudehisattva.com/britney.jpg
http://itn.co.uk/news/9a0f0ce2ebc8a2b67d86b7a0b1da8504.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forums/viewthread/3707/
http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/news/warrobinson/warrobinson9-23-99.asp


All media considered bronze, paper, silicon, metal, foam. All work must be life size figurative sculpture of a full body human which includes both legs, arms, and hands.
Please submit examples of your work even if you have only one peice or yet to have created one. If you don't have a sculpture yet, we would like to hear your ideas for a sculpture that you plan to create and we can tell you if it will work for us. Are gallery is located in the heart of the art community at Pioneer square in downtown Seattle.




Here is a list of links that shows what can be accomplished with paper mache:

http://www.artists.co.nz/korv_walk.jpg
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05xH7822mU6V6/610x.jpg
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/folkert_dejong.htm?section_name=shape_of_things
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/matt_johnson.htm?section_name=shape_of_things
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/ryan_trecartin_vet.htm
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/437526030_d607d90aa6.jpg
http://newscafe.ansci.usu.edu/archive/nov2003/wornout.jpg
http://www.zenithgallery.com/Artists/Hansen,%20Stephen/2005%20Exhibition/IT'S-WHAT-HE-WOULD-HAVE-WAN.jpg
http://rdirenna.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/100_3662.jpg
http://rdirenna.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/100_2744-2.jpg
http://rdirenna.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/100_0266-2fr.jpg

Here it is:Paper Mache Recipe3 cups water2 1/2 cups flour

Here is one of the hundreds of paper mache tutorials that can be found on the web:
http://www.cockeyed.com/lessons/papermache/papermache01.shtml