Comments on: Incredible Wood Carvings by Randall D. Boni https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni A collection of oddities that includes weird places, strange people, bizarre events and other odd stuff from all around the world Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:32:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Amazing Wood Carvings By Kronid Gogolev | blurppy https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-355785 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:32:20 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-355785 […] Kronid Gogolev was born in 1926, in the Novgorod province of Russia. His father, a former priest, gave him the rather unusual name of Kronid, which means “Zeus”, a name many would say he eventually lived up to as the god of Russian wood-carving. When he was 16 years old he fought in World War II and participated in the liberation of the Leningrad region, Estonia and Poland. In 1953 Kronid Gogolev entered Leningrad Art and Graphic pedagogical school, and upon graduation moved to the town of Sortavale, in Karelia. He became famous in 1984, after he had two exhibitions in Moscow, and in the year that followed he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, and showcased his art both in Russia and abroad. Important figures like Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin or Patriarch Alexy II owned some of Kronid Gogolev’s wood carvings. […]

]]> By: marjan https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-86897 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:13:01 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-86897 God bless you.

]]> By: THOMAS RAY https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-26016 Mon, 18 May 2009 02:33:00 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-26016 MR. BONI: YOU ARE TRULY A GREAT ARTIST. MORE SKILL AND INSIGHT THAN I COULD EVER IMAGINE.

]]> By: ed https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-25257 Fri, 08 May 2009 14:24:25 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-25257 Saw him at work in Jay, Vermont. Incredible!

]]> By: wra5 https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-25102 Tue, 05 May 2009 16:35:18 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-25102 Increible muy bueno;)

]]> By: April https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-25004 Mon, 04 May 2009 04:25:53 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-25004 These are child’s play compared to ones done by an artist who used to do his work along Hwy 198 heading towards Kaweah Lake in Tulare County, California. These are ok. The ones heading towards Kaweah Lake were brilliant.

]]> By: Lazza https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-24767 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:34:38 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-24767 Beautiful work! But isn’t it ironic that he’s cutting down trees to make wildlife carvings?

Just kidding…I wish I could afford to buy one of those!

]]> By: peggy https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-24424 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:57:21 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/incredible-wood-carvings-by-randall-d-boni.html#comment-24424 This artist obviously knows and loves wildlife. Amazing talent–thanks for sharing the pictures for those of us who would never see these any other way.

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