I seriously doubt Gerhard Richter made this but it's still awesome: Bruce Conner was kinda influential on me even though I made stuff like this before I learned he did it 50 years earlier I've talked about Antony Gormley and Ed Kienholz before Tim Hawkinson made a bird out of his fingernails Piero Manzoni claimed the world as his sculpture
I really dig the Antony Gormley pieces you show here. I also enjoy the Kienholz before piece but it's so disturbing that I can't really say that I 'like' it. Are you sure that Tim Hawkinson only used his fingernails for that sculpture? It looks as though there are some long pieces in there. No toenails?
I just remember seeing the Tim Hawkinson in a book and the material listed was fingernails. Could be some toenails. That's not an important distinction to me. A lot of Kienholz work is raw. I don't think he made anything that was beautiful but I think it's important to look at the truth when it isn't palatable and that's what he did. The line I remember about that piece, The State Hospital, was the figure is trapped, unable to imagine anything other than the reality they're experiencing, thus the neon word bubble. He also has really good pieces about lynching, war and backroom abortion. Fun stuff.