Cameras clicked away as a team of metal workers clad in fireproof suits, gloves and welding masks poured molten bronze – heated to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit and glowing like lava – into a container …
at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, Calif., on Tuesday morning. “I always say it’s too bad that you can’t really capture that color of the bronze on a camera. It’s just not there. It will look great, but it’s just not there. Being here is different.”The master mold for “The Actor” statuette was created from an original sculpture by Edward Saenz at the award show’s inception in 1995.
The patina, applied with a paintbrush and activated with a blowtorch, is the chemical that gives the statuette its trademark blue-green hue. Though the patina is temporary, its application is intended to give the appearance of how the statuette will eventually look once the copper inside the bronze has oxidized over time. “The whole thing is sealed to get it through the awards night with a secret ingredient: bowling ball wax,” Anderson revealed.
“We started with the idea that we weren’t just going to give a typical trophy, like you find in a trophy shop,” Anderson said. “We were going to send our honorees home with a fine art piece. One of the things that we didn’t really appreciate at the time was that the way it’s produced is very similar to the way we produce our work. There are a lot of people behind the scenes and you are seeing them here today. And they are artists too.
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