Antony Gormley Angel of the North : theEYE

An internationally acclaimed artist, Antony Gormley is best known for his monumental sculpture Angel of the North. This earth-bound figure with its massive wings shares with all of Gormley's work a preoccupation both with the human form and with our shared spiritual potential.

Antony Gormley's early lead and iron figures were cast from his own body. They demand a physical and emotional response, but they also raise profound philosophical questions about memory, the mind and our senses. Some of his sculptures, such as the tiny sleeping figure modelled on his infant daughter Still IV, are intensely private. Other works, like Field and Allotment II, are sweeping social and architectural explorations on a grand scale.

Many of Antony Gormley's most significant works are illustrated in this film profile, including Bed, made from hundreds of loaves of sliced white bread, and the spectacular Quantum Cloud created alongside the Millennium Dome in London. Antony Gormley offers a reflective commentary on these and other works and on the central investigations and imperatives of his art.

theEYE is an excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works and provides an ideal resource for a wide range of audiences, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as individual art-lover.

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[wavesrcrashing]

AWESOME truly beautiful powerful modern art sculpture gotta go up north to see it.

[englishrose47]

It gives me the heebie-jeebies. There you are travelling up the A1, minding your own business, when just after Chester-le-Street, it`s there! Scares me to death.

[xxZeroZonexx]

Fucking scary. Could you imagine if it fell?

[Kawiia17]

If there were no documentations of the purpose of this statue, I'm sure our descendants would find this and think that we used it as some elaborate calender.

[Bardotbardot]

it gives me the creeps its horrible

[gypsylurve]

@1965CAPTKIRK But it has got skill as an artist's concept. This is his view of what represents the northern working class hard life - it's brutal and faceless. But also he couldn't get away from the fact that part of what he was designing had to have that structural and realistic creative ellement that meant it could be built. As I said, if you find it ugly then I get that (it isn't the most pleasing thing to the eye I agree) but that doesn't mean it has little artistic merit.

[1965CAPTKIRK]

@gypsylurve I mean no skill in the artists concept and talent, of course you must be a skilled welder to weld such a large piece of crap together, but just because the people who put it up had skill does not distract from my point that its totally shit worshipped by people of little taste and imagination. I might buy a chimp and get it to knock out a few paintings I think he has a ready market here!

[gypsylurve]

@1965CAPTKIRK Ok, you're entitled to your opinion if you think it's ugly but to say that there is no skill involved is just ignornant. Why not look up how it was designed (including the land it stands on), made, transported and then erected before making such uninformed comments. It's a major feat of engineering as well as being art.

[glitzybaby22]

i'm truely terrified of this sculpture.

[1965CAPTKIRK]

@karlzips1 No actually its you who dont realise how ugly this crap is, I suggest you look up leonardo da vinci's work, if it was mine I would sell it to you tommorrow the so called Angel that is, but dont you think us English have done enough bad things to you Irish with out vandalising your city with this crap.

[SnappyPenguins]

@0509112x Because most people like beauty.

[karlzips1]

@1965CAPTKIRK i would be proud to have this piece of art in my city !! you dont realise how beautiful it is .. in dublin we have a ugly looking needle called the spire and every dubliner hates it..