Bird
About this artwork
The experience of growing up during the war years strongly affected Frink’s sculpture. This work is one of a number of bronzes, executed in the 1950s, in which animal forms are given a menacing, military appearance. Although only thirty-eight centimetres high, this bird appears simultaneously aggressive, powerful and like a damaged but defiant survivor of a nuclear attack. Typical of the sculptor’s early work, the distressed, textured surface and spindly, striding legs of the bird recall the work of Giacometti, who Frink cited as a great influence.
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title:Bird
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accession number:GMA 1108
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materials:Bronze
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date created:1959
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measurements:38.00 x 37.20 x 25.30 cm
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credit line:Presented by Mrs M.E.B. Scott Hay 1970
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copyright:© The Executors of the Frink Estate and Archive. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018.
Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink’s artistic career was launched at the age of twenty-two with her first solo exhibition. Linked with the group of post-war British sculptors that included Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi, she is perhaps best known for her expressionistic animal figures and popular public sculpture commissions. Born in Suffolk, Frink…