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Bronze Angels With Hearts

Angel with Heart
By Sandro Chia
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandro Chia (Italian, b. 1946) Title: Angel with Heart Year: circa 1980 Medium: Bronze
Category

1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Angel with Heart
Angel with Heart
$12,000
H 22.5 in W 10 in D 6.5 in
Angel with Heart, Bronze Sculpture by Sandro Chia
By Sandro Chia
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandro Chia (Italian, b. 1946) Title: Angel with Heart (large) Year: circa 1980 Edition: 2
Category

1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

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Angel with Heart
By Sandro Chia
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandro Chia (Italian, b. 1946) Title: Angel with Heart Year: circa 1980 Medium: Bronze
Category

1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Angel with Heart
Angel with Heart
H 22.5 in W 10 in D 6.5 in

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Sandro Chia for sale on 1stDibs

Sandro Chia is an Italian painter and sculptor. He was born in Florence, Italy on April 20, 1946. Chia studied at the Istituto d'Arte and then at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, earning his diploma in 1969. After graduating, he traveled extensively to India, Turkey and throughout Europe before settling in Rome in 1970. Amongst his most important personal shows are exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam in 1983, the Metropolitan Museum of New York in 1984, the National Gallery of Berlin in 1984 and 1992, the Museum of Modern Art of Paris in 1984, the museums of Düsseldorf in 1984, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Florence in 2002 and the Duomo of Sant'Agostino in Pietrasanta in 2005. In 2003, the Italian State acquired three important works of his for the permanent collection of the Italian Senate at Palazzo Madama and in 2005 two monumental sculptures were acquired by the Province of Rome and placed in front of its headquarters in Via IV Novembre, Rome.

A Close Look at Neo-expressionist Art

A resurgence of interest in Expressionism, Pop art, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and other movements gained steam among artists of the 1970s and ’80s, in part as a reaction to the austerity of the prevailing minimalism and Conceptual art of the era. A decadent, bold and brash art style called Neo-Expressionism saw painters returning to figural representation, creating highly textured works that were imbued with intensely personal narratives.

Neo-Expressionist paintings are sensuous in nature and highly subjective in meaning. Expressive brushwork, highly pigmented colors and layered forms and materials lent sculptural attributes to the work and were used to depict symbolic narratives from history, mythology and the artist’s personal experience. 

Prominent figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat led the Neo-Expressionist movement in the United States with paintings and prints that were raw, emotional and often violent in nature. In Germany, Die Neuen Wilden (the “New Fauves”) was the name given to a group of postwar artists that included the likes of sculptor Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter, a painter and photographer who explored the possibilities of both abstraction and realism, sometimes in a single piece. The work of the New Fauves — labeled as such for its return to Fauvism’s textured brushwork and use of vibrant colors — shares commonalities with Neo-Expressionism, and Baselitz was a pioneer of the movement in Europe. In addition, Willem de Kooning’s pulsating action paintings and Julian Schnabel’s experimentation with the materiality of paintings also took shape during this period.

“I was trying to make paintings different from the paintings that I saw a lot of at the time, which were mostly minimal, and they were highbrow and alienating, and I wanted to make very direct paintings that most people would feel the emotion behind when they saw them,” said Basquiat. 

Neo-Expressionism generated some polarizing opinions, with some celebrating the revival of personal subjectivity in art while others criticizing the movement for being too commercially driven and nostalgic. But most experts agree that Neo-Expressionism was a huge commercial success and culturally impactful, paving the way for the postmodern work of artists like Richter and Sigmar Polke

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Finding the Right Figurative-sculptures for You

Figurative sculptures mix reality and imagination, with the most common muse being the human body. Animals are also inspirations for these sculptures, along with forms found in nature.

While figurative sculpture dates back over 35,000 years, the term came into popularity in the 20th century to distinguish it from abstract art. It was aligned with the Expressionist movement in that many of its artists portrayed reality but in a nonnaturalistic and emotional way. In the 1940s, Alberto Giacometti — a Swiss-born artist who was interested in African art, Cubism and Surrealism — created now-iconic representational sculptures of the human figure, and after World War II, figurative sculpture as a movement continued to flourish in Europe.

Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were some of the leading figurative artists during this period. Artists like Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan propelled the evolution of figurative sculpture into the 21st century.

Figurative sculptures can be whimsical, uncanny and beautiful. Their materials range from stone and wood to metal and delicate ceramics. Even in smaller sizes, the sculptures make bold statements. A bronze sculpture by Salvador Dalí enhances a room; a statuesque bull by Jacques Owczarek depicts strength with its broad chest while its thin legs speak of fragility. Figurative sculptures allow viewers to see what is possible when life is reimagined.

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