Continuing the conversation about alternative dolls, let's get acquainted with the work of the charismatic master Denise Bledsoe Denise Bledsoe calls her works “funny, harmless and bizarre”. The artist lives and works in Southern California (USA) Denise writes about himself: I have been doing art since childhood. As soon as I began to realize myself, I did not spend a single day without pencils, a pen and ...

Meet the Puppet Master, Anne Marie Gibbons Continuing the conversation about alternative dolls, let's pay attention to works that certainly do not leave anyone indifferent. It seems that these piercing eyes look straight into your soul ... Anne Marie received her art education in New York, United States of America. From early childhood, she had an enthusiastic love for dolls ...

Meet the eternal Halloween or Delightfully Spooky Dolls by the French author. Continuing the conversation about alternative dolls, let's take a look at the work of an eccentric craftsman. JULIEN MARTINEZ, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, was born in 1970 in France. In 1996, he presented his dolls for the first time at the international exhibition "Paris-Creation", where he achieved immediate success. Julian is in ...

Continuation of the Scary Dolls theme. The word Ugliness has several meanings. Now I rather mean hooliganism, a game, and not Ugliness. The dolls of the authors presented here are beautiful! For me, of course, there is no dispute about tastes. We buy dolls emotionally. After all, they touch something in the heart, we begin to empathize and sympathize. You had such that you look at ...

Wood, fire and ancient folklore. Continuing the story about the authors of "Alternative Puppets", I want to elaborate on the work of the British master - Tach Pollard. The artist creates surrealistic characters, stylized beings - "Spirits of Nature", as the author himself calls them. Once you see Pollard's works it's impossible to forget them. Looking at the faces, the figures of characters, you are struck by the exotic imagery. But...

"My works are very personal, I immerse myself in my fantasies." Continuing to talk about the work of unique masters, from the article "Alternative dolls", I want to introduce you to the artist from America Dustin Poche (Dustin Poche '). Creating original images, the author is not like anyone else. Dustin received his art education at the Colorado Institute of the Arts, Denver, Russell, Kansas, USA. At first ...

"Before I became a sculptor, I worked for the Hong Kong Police Force for 13 years"...or babies in museum windows... In this article about alternative dolls, I touched on the work of a talented artist from Hong Kong, Johnson Tsang. The artist's work is an example of talent and boundless imagination and vividly demonstrates the plastic properties of the material from which they are created. The artist's works, which are beautifully frozen ...

 Foreword. Historical notes. Once, very long ago, at the dawn of mankind, one primitive man, strange in the eyes of his fellow tribesmen, took a wand in his hands. I attached a bunch of grass to it, wrapped it all with the veins of a dead rhinoceros and painted it with white clay. The tribesmen, who watched all this with interest, respectfully named him a shaman. ...

 (Other, strange dolls). ... Why do you make such scary dolls? .. You can often hear the question of an inexperienced viewer who is ready to accept understandable standards of beauty with joy. Where does so many authors want to create imperfect and sometimes terrifying characters? Reflecting on this topic comes the understanding that in the world in which we live, along with undoubted beauty and attractiveness, ...