Modeling Torsos with Clay
About Me
A course by José Manuel Martínez Pérez , Sculptor and Illustrator
Joined May 2022
Joined May 2022
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson I will introduce myself. I am passionate about the human body; I observe it, analyze it, experiment with its expressive possibilities. I think you can still come up with many new ideas starting from the human figure.”
In this video lesson José Manuel Martínez Pérez addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modeling Torsos with Clay. Dive into figurative sculpture and learn to model an expressive male torso, focusing on human musculature and bone structure.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, welcome to this Domestika course. My name is José Manuel Martínez Pérez and I am a sculptor. The power to express through clay a pose, an attitude, a gesture of the human body, I think something wonderful. The human body's ability to tell stories is immense. So I stop, I look, I observe the human body, the nude, the figure, the balance, the proportion and suggest me ideas. I am perfectionist, but at the same time I like that the piece or my sculptures have an important expressive charge. So I try as long as it's not cold realism. I want the piece to transmit and reach pe...”
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Course summary for: Modeling Torsos with Clay
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Areas
Fine Arts, Sculpture
José Manuel Martínez Pérez
A course by José Manuel Martínez Pérez
The human body, its ability to express emotions and its dynamics represent the center of the creative work of the sculptor and draftsman José Manuel Martínez. In his career he has been recognized with the 56th Reina Sofía Prize for Painting and Sculpture (AEPE), the "Miguel Blay y Fábregas" sculpture medal and the honorable mention twice in the "Figurativas 2019/2021" contest.
He has materialized public commissions such as the tribute bust to Don José Folgado Blanco (2021), the monument to Alonso Barba (2019), the monument to the Elderly and to the Virgin Bella (2007), among others. His work can be seen at the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona (MEAM) or at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sicily in Catania (MACS). In addition, he combines his work as a sculptor with that of a professor of anatomy and natural drawing at the Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional (ESDIP) in Madrid.
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