Tip Toland
Toland pulls people in two opposite directions with her work. While being ultimately realistic and finitely detailed, the viewer cannot help but be awed by the art before them. At the same moment, her sculptures are of people that aren't outright beautiful. In looking at the sculpture above, the huge grin and laughing shoulders of the man should invoke memories of happiness; but his happy stature is paired with only a handful of teeth, wrinkles, and age spots that remind the viewer of mortality. Happiness in the face of impending death is an interesting moral, and Toland hit the nail right on the head with this sculpture.The beauty in the ugly is captured in quite a bit of her work, and because of this interesting combination, Toland will stand the test of time.
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