Wax sculpture

London-based artist Rebecca Stevenson creates figurative sculptures that blossom into surreal structures. Her multimedia figures, primarily constructed

By Susanne K. Arnold Medardo Rosso As an organic medium beeswax has the unique ability to simulate the look, touch, and feel of human flesh. From earliest times, artists and craftspeople took advantage of these qualities to create lifelike reproductions of the human head and body as objects for devotion, commemoration, scientific study, entertainment, and art. After the Renaissance wax was considered too fragile a medium for finished sculpture and was ignored by the history books. By the…

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Something I did early summer. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands. Had a lot of unused candles and too much free time. Basica... Dripping Wax Mini-Tower

Wax copy of Giambologna's Rape of the Sabine Women, with lit candle, slowly melting at the Venice Biennale. Artist: Urs Fischer

This wax sculpture of a sleeping woman was made with several wicks, turning her into a giant candle (not to be mistaken for the soap woman of the Mutter Museum).…

Urs Fischer - Self-destructing wax candle sculpture at the Venice Art Biennale 2011

All wax. Artist: Urs Fischer

a group of ephemeral wax sculptures by swiss artist urs fischer is slowly melting away inside the bourse de commerce in paris.