Clare Gaylard Glass
Lampwork Glass, Jewellery and Wearable Art, created by me: Clare Gaylard in my Suffolk studio.
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Victory of Samothrace
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I met this statue first without realising it, as an art student enjoying the polemic craziness of the Futurist Manifesto: 'We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.' Marinetti went on to declare: ' ....a roaring car that seems to be driving under shrapnel, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.' Then I saw photos and knew her as 'Nike' or 'Winged Victory' for some years before I connected the references.
Well a week or so ago I was able to see her in person and what a thing of beauty she is. I'm not sure I would want to see her head, the body is so expressive of power, beauty and motion that I've enjoyed, painted and modelled it quite happily without. I like the crowd in this photo are properly assembled at her feet. Plus I recently saw the Veus de Milo, arms reconstructed and furnished with a distaff & spindle, plausible but I'd rather not.
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