Interesting
choice of art.
Michael Wilcox of New
York, USA, welds wire sculptures of animals using the
"topiary" technique - placing longitudinal lines
across a series of gradated wire rings for basic form,
structure and support.
Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium
of clipped trees, shrubs and sub-shrubs. The word derives
from the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener,
topiarius, creator of topia or "places", a Greek
word that Romans applied also to fictive indoor landscapes
executed in fresco. No doubt the use of a Greek word betokens
the art's origins in the Hellenistic world that was influenced
by Persia, for neither Classical Greece nor Republican
Rome developed any sophisticated tradition of artful pleasure
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