In medicine, plaster orthopedic casts are still often used for supporting set broken bones. Plaster is suitable for finishing rather than load-bearing, and when thickly applied for decoration may require a hidden supporting framework, usually in metal.įorms of plaster have several other uses. Plaster can be relatively easily worked with metal tools and sandpaper and can be moulded, either on site or in advance, and worked pieces can be put in place with adhesive.
The reaction with water liberates heat through crystallization and the hydrated plaster then hardens. The plaster is manufactured as a dry powder and is mixed with water to form a stiff but workable paste immediately before it is applied to the surface. The most common types of plaster mainly contain either gypsum, lime, or cement, but all work in a similar way. Another imprecise term used for the material is stucco, which is also often used for plasterwork that is worked in some way to produce relief decoration, rather than flat surfaces.
In English, "plaster" usually means a material used for the interiors of buildings, while "render" commonly refers to external applications. Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. A plaster low-relief decorative frieze is above it. Zomers died in 1928 and did not see the monument inaugurated in 1936! Measures width 11 cm, depth 15 cm, height 38 cm.Stucco (plaster) reliefs such as this work at the Chateau de Fontainebleau were hugely influential in Northern Mannerism. It was therefore fitting to erect a monument to these two popular and significant symbols of the proud city of Liège. The popular character, Tchantchès became over time the archetype of the goodman of Liege, witty and good-natured, wise and subtle, quick to find resolutions and fertile in resources, when he is depressed, he recovers with a joke that reveals the popular Walloon citizen, mocking and sentimental. Tchantchès is the name given to a puppet that appeared in Liège in the 19th century. This great work in stone and bronze is located in the Otremeuse district in Rue Pont-Saint-Nicolas designed by Joseph Zomers, the statue represents a "hiercheuse", the name was given to the women who pulled the carts in the mine, a tribute to those valiant young people vilified and victims of the exploitation of women's labor, the woman holds aloft the puppet of Tchantchès. Joseph Zomers was born in Liege in Belgium in 1895 and died in 1928 he studied art in Maredsous (Belgium), many of his works are permanently exhibited at the Musèe de Liège Zomers is well known for his public monument "Tchantchès" in Liege.
It is an object in perfect Art Nouveau style (Jugendstil), in fact, many artists of this current used eroticism as their work, portraying women as ethereal and fatal beings, letting themselves be inspired by "le beau sexe" thanks to their naked forms, soft and seductive. The woman is represented posing with ill-concealed malice and shows without reticence her body with a thin erotic veil, the artist has not executed the face precisely to accentuate a mysterious charm it is a figure of harmonic proportions that takes into greater consideration the erotic connotations, however, a refined and elegant eroticism that presents itself in a courteous manner, subtle and suggestive but at the same time provocative and irreverent the woman, in her most intimate dimension, as a naked presence, defenseless but seductive, becomes the embodiment of the poetic essence of the artist, the emblematic figure of his aesthetics. Statuette of a naked woman sitting in patinated plaster of Paris plaster of Paris, is a very resistant material, used since ancient times, it was used by the ancient Egyptians as a binder in the construction of the pyramids and is used in sculpture for its strength, the name is linked to the ancient quarries of Montmartre in Paris the statue is a work of the famous Belgian sculptor and bronze artist Joseph Zomers which he executed between 19 and whose signature is on the pedestal.
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