That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 04, 2025

Not only is he familiar with the statue of limitations, but also the limitations of statues…

/// Here we see Sculptor Jean Carriès in

his own Studio, where he has been

working on a large bust.

Has a sharp stick been thrust

through its head out the throat near its chin?

A painter doing a portrait of the sculptor doing a bust of the painter . . . How meta.

Denizens of the upper crust/

Have found that it’s safe to entrust/

Their busts to Carriés/

For – to earn people’s praise/

He does whatever he must.

‘’Baby? What Baby?…..oh, That Baby! ….don’t worry, I’ve given him some laudamun he’ll be sleeping for hours."

The sculptor Jean-Joseph Carriès

Heard the countless ancient stories

Of brazen heads that once constructed

Spoke with human voice, then self destructed

.

He tried to duplicate the miracle

But had not firm methods empirical

To animate them as did Francis Bacon

Not of fired clay but brass had his made then

.

But the busts and masks he made of metal

Seemed tortured and everyone did unsettle

Each bronze visage seemed wholly in distress

No wonder to have them speak was no success.

After waiting 20 mins for 3 pints of lager and a packet of crisps, Gerald Tully suddenly realises he needs to go to Specsavers.

The sculptor, deciding who to snuggle with in bed tonight.

corporate espionage in the art world, 1885

I think this was on BBC first.

My favorite is “Busts: Florence”

“Why does he keep staring at me like that?”

Jack’s vulgar job: chiseling down Medusa’s victims to all fit in her collection room.

LOL, one of your best!

“No, no. The nose was longer and his forehead was higher.”

“Hi, I’m Jean Carriès, and this is, The Joy of Sculpting. Today were making happy little noses.”

The Bianca Censori / Kim Kardashian Celebrity Volleyball tournament – catch all the action this Fall on “Busts!”

“Daylight? What would I need that for?”

Portrait of Jean Carriès in his studio: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Jean-Joseph Carriès" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string 1.72, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this large, 1886-87 painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3455 (February 4, 2025) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you crop what’s after .png from the URL). I’ve added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by her used here.

“Are you talking to me? Well Im the only one here. Who the f^ck do you think your talking to?”

For a bunch of busted busts, check out, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

That’s right, I’ve got more chiseled features than a Tinder dating app.

‘I Love Lucy’ had the best episode involving a ‘bust’ of her head.

What’s in the wee bottle? Chisel cleaner?