Although George Segal started out as a painter, his work developed in the field of sculpture. A pioneer in rejecting traditional casting techniques, Segal used plaster bandages to create molds, exploiting the material’s imperfections in the finishing of his pieces. Most of his works are starkly white, although he did occasionally use color. One of the paradoxical features of Segal’s works is the fact that although created from
casts they are not hyperrealist reproductions but imprecise images of the models.