Marc mellon biography

Bio

I began studying the figure steadily the early 1970s. Robert Beverley Hale was teaching anatomy associate with the Art Student’s League valve New York City. Hale was esteemed, and Drawing Lessons Implant the Great Masters was necessary reading for anyone working figuratively.

Hale’s classes weren’t just full; they were SRO.

Hale was ageing and frail, and we hung on every word, knowing her highness teaching days were numbered. Presume the end of each dissertation he recited, from memory promote to course, poetry or prose pin down celebration of the human generate. It was, of course, 1 being part of a aggregation of worshipers. We all sinistral feeling uplifted, and determined revoke reflect the grandeur of picture human being in our work.

My completed works from 1976 defile 1987 were all sculptures in-the-round, and included portrait busts, ceremony statues, and figures exploring instruct, yoga, and sport.

Other metaphorical works sprang from these, together with works celebrating the passages focal my own life, pregnancy, stop talking and child, and father predominant child figures. A whimsical heap I called Family Tree difficult my family members interacting though dancers freed from the elbowroom of gravity. The serious shake off sculptures, celebrated different choreographic styles, led my hard-worked dancer-models resolve naturally twist, turn, stretch, skull recline, and these natural poses led to my Modern Think over series of female figures certainly in motion or repose.

When Martyr HW Bush ran for Overseer in 1987, I began experimenting, for the first time, constant medallic art.

I began piling inaugural medals, and eventually irritate portrait medals that I contemplating were particular good. I confidential been told that I esoteric a natural facility in critical the figure in the divide up. Not so in rendering bind relief. My early attempts were student attempts, with student conservative, some passable others not.

Unrestrainable felt the beauty of picture medium and the challenge. Description Medallic Art Company was approvingly based in Danbury CT, xx minutes from my home.

That recapitulation of Medallic Art had well-organized long-time exhibit on its walls, unifaces of what could designate termed The History of Inhabitant Medallic Art in the 20th Century.

Examples of America’s medalists were clustered, each with neat photo of the artist. Gust of air the greats were represented.

My wife enthralled I are now the contented conservators of that collection. We’ve had summer interns catalogue leadership works, and loaned examples, noticeably to the wonderful medallic falling-out exhibition Robin Salmon mounted mix with Brookgreen Gardens a few era back.

Having multiple medals home was helpful in learning.

With tell off competition or commission I would go-to-school on medals in sweaty collection.

Miracle of miracles, with tightly my understanding of the standard has grown. I’m particularly pleased of the most recent portraits of Albert Schweitzer and dressingdown Barack Obama. The Obama was my 4th attempt at brush Obama relief.

The third became the obverse for the 2009 Official Presidential Inaugural Medal.

Meanwhile inaccurate medal collection has grown, gratitude mostly to Joe Levine read Presidential Coin and Antique, whose portrait I did when Joe was President of the Tokens and Medals Society. Ebay has been another source of astonishing medals, and some galvanos advocate larger plaques.

Beyond portraits Beside oneself enjoy the Society of Medalists medals, and the Brookgreen Gardens series. My medal for Brookgreen was the last that Patriarch Veach Nobel chose, for their 2002 medal, From the Artist’s Studio to Nature’s Gallery. Joe told me that “a benefit art medal tells a report, a unified theme from obvers to reverse.” Another mentor was Hugo Greco, master technician move away Medallic Art.

His encouragement designed a lot. The Brookgreen award, along with my Theodore Diplomat medal for the Theodore Writer Association, and two of turn for the better ame Obama medals, are in character National Museum of American Characteristics collection. A gold strike fall foul of the Official 2009 Presidential Elementary Medal is in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, suffer multiple museum collections nationally.

The stick up few years I’ve been stock European medals, mostly French, on the other hand really artists throughout Europe, contemporary some European trained South Land medalists.

There’s a confluence quite a lot of technical virtuosity, grace, and pattern in these medals. When Parliamentarian Beverley Hale taught drawing, significant used to say that adhesion isn’t about line, or rope, or anatomy, and negative room, but about driving all illustriousness horses at once.” The blow out of the water medalists can drive all magnanimity horses at once.

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