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Most pure metals come from the earth\u2019s crust and have been around for ages. Just like art, they both have a long history which changed over time. How metals were used and seen as something beautiful rather than just practical changed a lot over time dating back from ancient Egypt to the industrial revolution and so on. With the Industrial Revolution, artists had the opportunity to expand their use of materials, rather than just using paint and a canvas. Because textiles and metals could now be used in processing fabric and metals. What started as a pure and practical material changed into Modern art. Find out more in Mastering Of Metal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might be familiar with artists using metal as their hardware to create. Here are a few of the most interesting and unique artworks created from some sort of metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metal wall art has been found as far back as 7,000 BC. Funeral masks, necklaces, jewellery, and gold coins have been found in ancient Troy. So it’s quite an old practice, but it became more and more popular as time went on specifically how it was used in art. So we start in 1880. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The Thinker\u2019 (1880-1910), artwork made by Auguste Rodin, Image provided by The Met<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a lot of bronze sculptures in the world, but not a lot with the fame and value of this particular one. Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor who became world famous with his statue \u2018The Thinker\u2019 (1880-1910). The Thinker was made to sit over the lintel of Rodin\u2019s monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell, contemplating the fate of the damned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tatlins Tower (1919-1920), artwork made by Vladamir Tatlin, Image Andy Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then around the 1920s, the art form of constructivism came along. Which was much more mechanical-like art in a way. Tatlins Tower (1919-1920), was a design for a grand monumental building by the Russian and Ukrainian artist and designer Vladamir Tatlin, Eventually, it never got built, but the design became a huge example of constructive art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Figure\u2019 (1928), artwork made by Pablo Picasso, Image by Rob Corder <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most famous artists of his time was Pablo Picasso, he was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and theatre designer. And what most people might not know is that he also made metal sculptures. He created this sculpture called \u2018Figure\u2019 (1928) as a proposal for a gravesite monument to his great friend, the poet-critic Guillaume Apollinaire, who died in 1918. Again unique art made out of Iron wire and sheet metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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