Croatian Artist Makes Life-size Sculptures with Matchsticks — VOA Learning English
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Croatian artist Tomislav Horvat is not the first person to make models out of matchsticks, but he might be creating the largest projects.
A matchstick is the short, thin piece of wood that is used to make matches for lighting fire.
Horvat thinks nothing of using 210,000 matchsticks to create a life-size statue, or sculpture, of a musician playing on a large piano. The instrument even comes complete with matchstick strings.
But that was not enough for the 34-year-old from the northern village of Domasinec. He is just a year and a half away from completing his version of Michelangelo’s sculpture of David.
Michelangelo was a famous Italian artist who lived about 500 years ago. He created a famous…
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