Butterfly art
Butterfly art made of engine parts
Amazing Butterfly art metal sculpture created by artist Giannis Dendrinos
Where did I get my influence about this Wall metal sculpture butterfly?
The natural environment of African landscape, the primitive way of life and my father’s metal workshop where I used to spend many hours playing are the basic reasons that led me to metal sculpture by using engine’s spare parts. They provide me with shapes and forms which I weld, grind, polish and finally varnish. I feel that I always have something new to discover which lead to new ideas and inventions. Using parts is about constructing, assembling, disassembling. Try the infinite possibilities of combining various objects to form what I have in my mind.
Why is butterfly called butterfly?
Because it is such an old word, we don’t really know who or when someone said ‘That ‘thing’ over there is a “butterfly”.’ One story is that they were named so because it was thought that butterflies, or witches that took on the shape of butterflies, stole milk and butter.
What does Blue Butterfly mean?
In some cultures, spotting a blue butterfly is thought to bring sudden good luck. Blue butterflies are also considered wish-granters. Spotting a blue butterfly means that a wish one makes or made will come true. A blue colored butterfly is often thought to symbolize joy and happiness.
What is a sculpture?
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast.
