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The-Wood® Studio is a designer
and manufacturer of carved doors made in solid teak. We offer
unfinished, pre-finished and finished doors with and without frame. We
specialize in custom residential doors with French, Mexican, Asian,
Egyptian, Indian and Moroccan carving design. We make double doors and front entryways
in any style, size, thickness, shape and design...
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Carving :: as an art form, includes any kind of sculpture in
wood, from the decorative bas-relief on small objects to life-size
figures in the round, furniture, and architectural decorations. The
woods used vary greatly in hardness and grain. The most commonly
employed woods include boxwood, pine, pear, walnut, willow, oak, and
ebony. The tools are simple gouges, chisels, wooden mallets, and
pointed instruments. Although they were universally one of the
earliest art media, wood carvings have withstood poorly the
vicissitudes of time and climate. A few ancient examples have been
preserved in the dry climate of Egypt, e.g., the wooden statue of
Sheik-el-Beled (Cairo) from the Old Kingdom. The carving of wooden
masks and statuettes was common to the African tribes, and totem
poles were used for the basic religious rites of the tribes of the
Northwest Coast of America. The wooden objects of Oceania include animated
designs, incised and in relief, on canoes and large standing figures. In Japan and China wooden carvings have long
been used to decorate temples and private dwellings. The Muslim countries of North
Africa abound in intricate architectural carvings.
In Europe wood carving was highly developed in Scandinavia, and
examples have been preserved of 10th- and 11th-century work. In
England the Gothic period produced extremely fine carving,
especially on choir stalls and rood screens.
Although the Puritans destroyed much of this, enough has been
preserved to show its beautiful workmanship. In France wood carving
was also a part of religious art, and there the carved altarpieces
were especially notable. Italian wood carving flourished during the
Gothic period in Pisa, Siena, and Florence, as well as in the
southern monasteries; during the Renaissance it remained an adjunct
of Italian artistic development. Many of the 15th- and 16th-century
artists in Germany worked in wood, creating monumental sculptures
and altarpieces; among the greatest were Hans Multscher, Michael
Pacher, Veit Stoss, and Tilman Riemenschneider. Fine retables were
also created in Flanders and Spain. After the Renaissance wood
carving went into a slight decline. It had a revival in the early
18th cent. when Grinling Gibbons in London carved for Sir
Christopher Wren's buildings. In colonial America fine ships'
figureheads and many other pieces now considered important folk art
were executed in wood. The 20th cent. has seen a resurgence of
interest in the medium of wood. Notable modern sculptors who have
used wood include Archipenko, Barlach, Henry Moore, and the Finnish
Tapio Virkkala. An appreciation of the basic material—the grain and
texture of wood—led many figurative artists including William Zorach,
Chaim Gross, Robert Laurent, and José de Creeft to work with wood.
Wood has also held a fascination for some abstract artists, notably
Louise Nevelson who created large, intricate sculptural compositions
of carved and turned wood forms. |
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