Artist Willard Wigan creates micro-sculptures that fit in the eye of a needle. Microsculptor’s Incredible Hulk Fits in Eye of Needle | Underwire. Using a hair plucked from a dead housefly as his paintbrush, self-taught sculptor Willard Wigan brings an extremely sharp eye to his life’s work: creating miniature masterpieces that fit inside a needle’s eye or sit atop the head of a pin.
The British artist reduces pop culture characters like the Incredible Hulk and The Simpsons to tiny figures that fetch big prices: Microsculptures go for up to $140,000 a pop, according to Wigan’s current catalog. Collectors, including Prince Charles, Elton John, Mike Tyson and British tycoon David Lloyd, receive a microscope along with each nanoscale object so they can actually see the artwork they’ve purchased. “I’m like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair,” laughs Wigan, 52, who spends about six weeks on each piece. “I get down to 6, 7 microns, which is one-third the size of a period you’d see in a newspaper.” How does he do it? Buzz Aldrin's moonwalk, as re-created by Willard Wigan in the eye of a needle. Anatomy of a Microsculpture See also: Willard Wigan: Artist, Dyslexic * The Yale Center For Dyslexia & Creativity. Many dyslexics have a remarkable ability to think outside the box; but artist Willard Wigan puts a twist on out-of-the-box thinking by crafting micro sculptures so tiny that many of them could fit inside a box—a very small box.
He has recreated scenes from the bible, as well as from pop-culture, such as Homer Simpson holding Bart up in the air by the neck. Wigan’s art often occupy the eye of a needle, or like the Simpsons, the head of a pin. They are so small that they can only be seen with the help of a high-powered microscope. His ingenuity and unique perspective have earned him respect, appreciation, fame, and, well, a lot of money. The respect and appreciation have been a long time in coming, considering that as a schoolboy growing up in 1960’s Birmingham, England, he was ridiculed by teachers and peers alike for not being able to read. And so, at just 5 years old, Willard began to seek refuge from school and his unsympathetic teachers in a shed behind the garden. Art of Miniature: 10 Uncanny Ultra-Small Artworks. Art of Miniature: 10 Uncanny Little Ultra-Small Artworks Article by Steph, filed under Sculpture & Craft in the Art category.
There’s something sort of magical about miniatures, especially when they’re strikingly lifelike. The artists who create these tiny wonders look at life from a different scale than the rest of us, and their work often requires intense patience, concentration and a steady hand. From sculptures too small to be seen by the naked eye to sweaters knitted with needles the diameter of a human hair, here are 10 incredible works of amazingly tiny art. Willard Wigan’s Amazingly Tiny Sculpture (images via: Willard Wigan) How is it possibly to create such intricately detailed, finely sculpted art – on the head of a pin?
Champagne Cork Furniture (images via: Design Within Reach + Nicolette Mason) A Design Within Reach contest invited readers to create a miniature chair using nothing but the foil, label, cage and cork from no more than two champagne bottles. (images via: Bugknits) Miniature art. Miniature art or model art is a genre that focuses on art (especially painting, engraving and sculpture) in much-smaller-than-usual sizes. Miniature art societies, such as the World Federation of Miniaturists (WFM), provide applicable definitions of the term.[1] An often-used definition is that a piece of miniature art is capable of being held in the palm of the hand, or that it covers less than 100 cm².
Miniature art has been made for over 1000 years and is prized by collectors. The U.S. White House, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and museums around the world have collections of miniature art. Artists of the miniature art genre[edit] Painters[edit] Bashir Ahmed (Pakistan)Chrysoula Argyros (S. Potters[edit] Troy Schmidt-Red Dragon Pottery (US) Sculptors[edit] Daniel Dorall (Australia)Kerri Pajutee (US) Miniature art societies & groups[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Notes Bibliography Historical Listing of Revival Period Miniature Art Societies (contributions welcomed) Mykola Syadristy - microart - ROSE INSIDE A HAIR.
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