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While some of his earlier works, such as “Leda and the Swan”, had a decided Art Deco feel, his “Neptune”, on permanent display in the Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden of The Society of the Four Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida, depicts the god of the sea from Roman mythology.
The sculptures of Ira Raines have now progressed to the point of being referred to as “Sculptural Etherealism”, delicate and intricately formed figures of near-perfect beauty, often in poses of extreme balance, sometimes emerging as-if in the process of creation, and replete with beauty and spirituality. Beauty born of chaos, form created from formlessness, for Reines feels that “Beauty is a perfect reflection of divinity.”
Reines studied the works of Michelangelo, Bernini, and Rodin most passionately and even had the good fortune to experience their masterpieces first-hand in Rome and Florence when he was twenty, a very inspiring experience. As he grew older, he also came to admire the work of twentieth-century master sculptor Frederick Hart, but admits that “My work is more emotional… That’s where I feel my work greatly differs, because my figures are awakening joyously.”
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