Firstly let’s explore what is marble and where did it came from?
Marble is the smooth, hard rock. It can be black in color and can be white in color. They mostly used for making statues and artifacts for home décor and others because we can polish marble and make it shiny. There are so many kinds of marbles and so much uses of them. We got marble in womb of the earth. When the pre-existing limestone rock heated on the extreme temperatures than the minerals grow large and fuse together and get the form of marble.
There are two types of marble
- Natural marble 2. Man made marble
All we deal in natural marble because we believe in good quality and the natural beauty because it has its own beauty and grace.
- The Art of marble sculpting
Introduction:
Marble sculpting is the proses to give shape to the piece of marble with the carving and detailing. In this prosses we need a well trained and experienced artists to make the beautiful and elegant statue of your dream. We need a good piece of marble a well quality of marble is the most needed thing in this whole process. After selecting a right marble piece, we have to do a rough painting then doing rough shaping with the help of point chisel, hammer we remove large chunks of marble and outline the basic shape. Then with very patience we will give them a very fine shape to his facial expressions and clothing designs and other textures. After then we are in the last stage of finishing like polishing and smoothing.
- The history of marble sculpting:
There is very long and immortal history of the marble. marble is used in the art, décor, religiously and in many more ways since ancient times. This has been going on since the 500th century. Egyptian, Greeks, and Romans were the parent of that art work. In ancient times it was also a sign of prosperity and wealth. Many kings often used to make their statues to show their worth and wealth.
In ancient time the process of polishing is not in work. That’s why the if we see the ancient time statues, they are rough. They are not that shiny and polished.
Behind every invention there is a need of something perfection or want to get something better or best. When Greek artist was not getting satisfaction with their work and realize that there is something missing in their work, they think that polishing can enhance their work’s details and make it soft and smooth like original skin.
- Greek person uses ‘pumice stone’ to polish and this technique called “soothing by abrasion”.
- Then Roman person get inspired by the Greek’s technology they also want to enhance their statue’s quality so they add “colored waxes and oils”.
So basically, in the ancient time artist use pumice and water to polish the statues. They rub pumice on the statue with water. It required to much time and power. By the time today we developed so many techniques to polish the marble statues and make them more detailed and look like alive.
We will get more information about designing, painting, polishing in the next blog.