David Beck is a contemporary American artist known for his ingenious combination of woodworking, painting, and miniaturist sculpture techniques, as seen in his work MVSEVM That same year, he moved to New York where he began exhibiting his work regularly at Allan Stone Gallery. Also a musician, Beck often records sound effects to go along with his mechanized sculptures. Hackett Mill. Jazz Band. Alligatorcanique , Running Horse , The Clown Riding a Chicken , Four Legged Butterfly , Portrait of Queen Kristina , —
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Visit the Smithsonian's website for updates about a phased re-opening plan. Crafting this lost world in miniature creates the kind of magic that films once had, when they transported audiences to distant lands and improbable adventures. The fantasy world of film may no longer be what it was, but Beck's Movie Palace reminds us of the pleasures of pretending. David Beck Photograph by Jon Crispin. David Beck is influenced by crank toys, whirligigs, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century mechanical robots called automata that delighted, and sometimes tricked, children and adults. An accomplished woodworker, sculptor, painter and craftsman, Beck builds intricate moving sculptures such as operas, band shells, movie houses, and museums. Beck handcrafts each complex component himself using rare materials such as linden and walnut woods, ivories, inlays, lacquers, and mussel and ostrich-egg shells.
(American, 1953–2018)
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