ClarenceMBlog: Papercraft Research - Elegant Paper Sculptures of Li Hongbo

Last year, when I was taking Dr. Salahub's art history class. I was curious and amazed at the artists of the high renaissance, especially Michelangelo who was one of the artists that I've been influenced with and trying to study his works. His sculptures were amazing, almost perfect and elegant on how he made it through marble, as marble back at the high renaissance period was the hardest and expensive stone.

To this day, I'd still follow Michelangelo's work until I saw the article about paper sculptures. It changed my perception of sculpture and also the use of paper. Artist Li Hongbo used a large amount of paper to recreate the bust of classical sculptures, and the best part was his work was the bust sculptures were stretchable in a different direction.

Through his work, Li Hongbo studies the strengths and weaknesses of the paper and studies the old mediums of sculpture that the classical artists were using back in the classical years. He combined the two for him to create this elegant and yet cheap way to create a sculpture or a bust to a bunch of papers and also manipulating our eyes that we think that it was made of marble.

Here is his example work: