DC Direct’s Green Lantern vs. Sinestro Statue
AFI is pleased to bring you this exclusive behind the scenes look at the recently announced DC Direct Green Lantern Vs. Sinestro statue sculpted by Tim Bruckner. This is such and interesting and dynamic piece it’s hard to capture how cool it really is with a single solicitation photo, so we felt it was worth a closer look. Not only did we get additional turn around and close-up shots butt we also have some exclusive shots of the unpainted piece and some fascinating insight into the development and production of the piece.
For anyone that has ever spoken to Tim Bruckner about sculpture you know he is a walking art history lesson. He calls it "stealing from the ‘greats’" but when you really look at one of his pieces you know that it is so much more than that. He knows who’s work to look at and what pieces he’ll need to make a project work.
 The the Green Lantern vs. Sinestro statue he was inspired by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), an absolutely brilliant portraitist. He did those amazing portraits of Franklin, Jefferson, Voltaire. according to the National Gallery of Art:
Houdon’s career coincided with an extremely turbulent period in French and American history, spanning two revolutions, the Directoire, and the empire under Napoleon. His images of the key figures of the time provide fascinating insights into history as well as the history of portraiture.
Born at Versailles in 1741, Houdon received the best academic education available to a young sculptor and won the Prix de Rome in 1761. While in Italy he showed an unusual interest in anatomical studies, creating his famous figure of L’Ecorché, or flayed man, during his stay at the Académie de France. Although trained to work for the French court, Houdon became the preferred sculptor of leaders of the Enlightenment, especially Frédéric Melchior Grimm (1728-1807) and Denis Diderot (1713-1784). Through them he received commissions from foreign patrons. He traveled to the German court of Saxe-Gotha twice in the early 1770s and later worked for the court of Catherine II of Russia.
It was, however, with his famous bust of Denis Diderot (1713-1784) (1771), exhibited at the Salon of 1771, that Houdon’s career as a portrait sculptor was launched. He was to portray most of the great intellectual, military, and political figures of the Enlightenment in France and in the United States. He was to revolutionize portraiture, rendering his sitters with a remarkable degree of physical accuracy (often using either life or death masks) and with extraordinary psychological insight. Houdon’s real genius lay in his capacity to show the individual as a whole.
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