A real life run down mid 40's lady standing with a washing basket full of clothes, which I'm sure she has done over and over.This is what you see when looking at Duane Hanson's 1974, Woman With Laundry Basket. Only after looking closely do you know it is not a real human.This 165cm Woman located at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide was not made by sculpting or moulding. Hanson used direct casting from live humans and coloured polyster resins to match the skin. Real accessories such as hair, clothes, shoes, jewerlly and others were used to merge the boundaries between art and life. Most people thought Hanson was trying to duplicate life but he says he was trying to make a statement on human values.

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The way Hanson has put the sculpture together and the feeling he has intended to give out has been very successful in this work. Hanson personal style would be working in reality. Making his sculptures as he sees them makes there feeling stronger then if he was to do this off the top of his head. Having done this with all his other works and this work it is no different. My personal opinion of the work is very positive, I think the work spend out strong feeling and without the loads of detail the sculpture would not work.

culpture and this one was no different. Hanson tended to cast all the different part of the body before assembling then together. He loved working in reality, usually life-size in three dimensions. His sculpture tended to share the viewer's space and could be viewed from in the round. Everything on this sculpture has been placed in exactly the right

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