Official Anurag website, now live.

Well; it's about time... The boys down at Anurag finally got their website made! Yay! Check it out, AnuragArt.com.

This website, my Anurag Art fan page, has been crippled by the failure of my main online image-hoster, zoto[dot]com. I will strive to repost old images and take better care of this page. Please check back shortly.


* Also; new email for Anurag Art:

anuragartstudio[at]gmail[dot]com

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The Risen Christ

Original wood model sculpted by Nathan Paul Meyer; Dragon Spade Studio.

Wooden 'Jesus' model, next to clay 'Joan' model.


Wooden model next to bronze casting, during metal finishing stage.


Bronze casting with mounting hardware installed and metalwork finished.


Initial installation in concrete base; Medford, Wisconsin.


This piece, "The Risen Christ", was commissioned by the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, for their Medford Evergreen Cemetery. The sculptor, Nathan Paul Meyer also designed and installed the landscaping around the statue. The stone of the base and benches is granite; the paths are laid out such, inside of a round drive to echo the "peace" glyph.



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Pouring bronze at Anurag

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Warming the bronze ingots on the edge of the furnace, before dropping them into the crucible.


Heaving the bronze and brightly glowing crucible from the furnace, at the height of its heating. The crucible will then be set down on a carbon barriered (cardboard) firebrick and "slagged" [have the glass and impurities raked off the top].


The full crucible is too heavy to hold and pour, repeatedly and/or steadily, just by two men hefting the yoke. It is therefore suspended by a chain hoist, initially, that can move in three axes (the third pourer being the 'chain man', controlling up and down movement and assisting with lateral motion in one axis) with the two pour men providing fine adjustment, rotation, lateral motion in second axis and pouring leverage.
















The "ceramic-shell" molds are generally thinner and more "figurative".


The plaster mold are generally thicker, blockier.




Placing the emptied, cooling crucible down on a layer of carbon ash (from cardboard), serving as a release-from/barrier-to the firebrick at the base of the furnace.




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"Our Lady of Victory", at St. Kate's.

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Statue of Mary, after welding and grinding.


Mary and Baggins.




"Our Lady", installed at St. Kate's, in St. Paul, MN.


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"Our Lady", listed at SCAN magazine; Public Art on St. Kate's St. Paul Campus.

Peter Lupori writes about sculpting Mary, mentions "Anuraug".

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Joan of Arc project

Peter Lupori sculpted the Joan of Arc piece, for joan of Arc church in Minneapolis.

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The clay/foam model has rubber/plaster mold created around it. Separate wax pieces will be cast from the rubber mold.


After being cast in separate pieces, the statue is tacked back together after being "broken-out" of the plaster mold.




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This photo of Joan, installed, was taken by Rick Spaulding.



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Here are a couple of links to pages in the St. Joan of Arc community website: this one is about the dedication ceremony, and this one has a few pictures of the piece being modeled.

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These characters of bronze

These pieces are supposed to be three dimensional interpretations of (Chinese?) calligraphic characters. I'll up date this posting with the name of the artist and the names of the pieces (If I can describe them, appropriately, to Baggins). The sinuous nature of the pieces must have required many individual cast parts.
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Update, February 16, 2008:The sculptor's name is Hou Rong, and you can see these and other pieces- here, at "The Art Collector's Quarterly".








Update, March 25 2008: Another pictograph photo scan.



A Wikipedia.Org article on Chinese character.

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