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The Muse of ballet is Elizabeth MacQueen's primary
inspiration. For fourteen years she has been creating bronze and marble sculptures using
well-known dancers as her models. Each piece depicts a particular movement, choreographed
to capture the dancer at the peak of execution and sustained tension. No detail is
overlooked. MacQueen explains her philosophy as 'the constant dream of translating the
language of the body into a three-dimensional representation that would symbolize the real
essence of movement, expression and human dignity.' Those who contemplate her work,
MacQueen believes, "will have their belief in the beauty of humanity
strengthened." The greatest influence on MacQueen and her art was the ten years she spent in Pietrasanta, Italy, where artists from various cultures around the world converged in a creative caldron. Here, she learned a special technique of reworking a plaster positive for a silicon mold. This technique is an added step to the usual American process of going directly from the clay to the silicon mold. Although it is more costly and time consuming, it allows MacQueen to see and refine the piece one more time, not in gray clay, but in white plaster. Italian artists from Michelangelo to Manzu, as well as French sculptors, Rodin and Camile Claudel, have also influenced MacQueen s work.
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