Bill Mack-Original Relief

Throughout his career, people have regarded Bill Mack as a relief sculptor speacializing in the imagery of the female form. When asked why he does so many female images, he explains to people that he really doesn't work overwhelmingly with the female form. He creates portraits, animals, mother and chile, man and woman, etc images. However, his images of the female form are his most successful images from the standpoint of their desirability at the gallery level.

Mack explained to people that female imagery has been one of the most, if not the single most widely used imagery in artworks throughout history. He expalins that "God created the beautiful female form and as artists attempt to replicate this beauty to the best of our ability. Mack has often asked why his females aren't more "round", full-bodied, like the females of the late 1800's and earlier. He is quick to respond that the heavier woman depicted in artwork as far back as the Renaissance Period, adn even earlier, were considered the idealized female. Hence, when he creates artworks using the female imagery, since he only does one or two such reliefs in a give year; he chooses to create artworks based on the idealized female of today.

To visually explain his assertion that the female form has been used throughout history, he has created a Series of Original Reliefs as a tribute to " The Female Nude Art History" In doing so, he is accomplishing two things. For Years Bill Mack has had requests to purchase original reliefs. He explains that he is only capable of doing a five or six complex large reliefs each year. Thus, it is impractical to offer them as unique or original artworks. Instead his publisher, Erin Taylor Editions produces editions of his reliefs and there is no original artwork since it is destroyed in the process. Secondly, by creating this tribut series to the female form, he is able to create Original reliefs by combining his imagery of the female form as the basic contour on which he has incorporated, or combined the works fo other artists throughout history.

The series involves maipulating the works of these artist to fit his relief and then collaging the other artists works over the contours of his female image, the first of which is Spirit. In using artworks by others, he is paying homage to the particular artwork adn the artist that created it. And, at the same time his is acomplishing his second goal of illustrating through this series how extensive the female image has been used in art history. The finished works are original Mixed Media Reliefs incorporating collage, acrylic, oil, epoxyt, and urethane over a fiber/resin relief.

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	Spirit of Erte's Pride The Seven Deadly Sins Suite by Bill Mack Original Relief 24 x 32 NEW

Erte Spirit Flowers by Bill Mack Original Relief	Dali Spirit by Bill Mack Original Relief	Peter Max Spirit by Bill Mack Original Relief

Erte Snirit Snake by Bill Mack Original Relief	Dali Spirit II by Bill Mack Original Relief	Chagall Spirit by Bill Mack Original Relief

	Dali Spirit III by Bill Mack Original Relief