You are very lucky man Frank. Given the ethics of the film industry these days you are lucky some art department drone didn't cruise your site, sketch out some approximation, and have a schleb like me make them out of plaster, spray paint it bronze, and stick in a candle. Sometimes the art department orders pieces because they hope to buy them when production wraps. Sometimes, with a union sculptor's rate of $33 per hour, it is cheaper to outsource. Sometimes a piece is so distinctive that they worry they might get sued - but this is unlikely - whats that famous case where the building in Chicago was used (a Micheal Douglas movie), a contempory sculptor had sued because they used his art extensively in the shots - the case went on for a year and all he got in the end was some chump change and a movie credit. The sculpting is very reminiscent of the Rodin's Gate - very sinuous and figurative. Does anybody know this building? Not totally sure it is Chicago. It is a newly constructed public building with a classical style, in brownstone type material.
Gary sculptari Vancouver
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/
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