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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI’m BACK with the Friday Afternoon Challenge! Today: “Art Pro Publico”!
In this Challenge you are to identify the public art works (artist, if applicable) and where they are located in the world.
Good luck and dont cheat...
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msongs
(67,474 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)donated but my challenge title didn't refer to a pro bono in that usage, but more just public work for the people to enjoy, as opposed to private ownership either by a museum of an individual...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,757 posts)I have never seen any of these!
They're all wonderful...
I will be watching to learn just where they are, and who did them.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)it's kinda too bad...
Warpy
(111,414 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 13, 2013, 08:25 PM - Edit history (1)
Dang, the photo appeared for a nanosecond when I posted it.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/14778
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Warpy
(111,414 posts)affectionately known here as The Chevy on a Stick, it's at the intersection of San Mateo Blvd with Gibson Blvd in Albuquerque, NM.
This town has a lot of public art that it commissions and pays the artists well for.
When this was first installed during a widening of Gibson Blvd in 1991, it drew a lot of criticism. It's since become one of the best loved public art projects in the city.
The artist is Barbara Grygutis.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)blogslut
(38,021 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Well, I do now that I googled it. But, guessing it was a Lichtenstein was pretty easy.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)IcyPeas
(21,930 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)ananda
(28,891 posts).. the Kansas City Public Library.
That is the coolest looking library I've ever seen a picture of
or in person.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)ananda
(28,891 posts)I've never been to Kansas City, I just remember the picture.
Oh, I remember. It was on one of those 50 most interesting
buildings websites, something like that.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)isn't that nice? I love it....
surrealAmerican
(11,367 posts)... but I like them all - especially #1 and 4. Playing with scale in an urban setting is always something I like to see.
IcyPeas
(21,930 posts)I've passed it many times. I don't know who it is by though.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)IcyPeas
(21,930 posts)I did some research and it is by Jonathan Borofsky.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)are very cool. Number 1 would freak me out if I accidentally stumbled on it.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)do you know what it is called...
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)Asia's Tallest Mural, by Hendrik Beikirch: http://www.yatzer.com/Asia-Tallest-Mural-by-Hendrik-Beikirch
Article doesn't give a name for it, for some reason.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)# 2 and # 6 have something significant in common...
IcyPeas
(21,930 posts)I recognize the Doges Palace in the background.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)IcyPeas
(21,930 posts)Austrian artist and designer Manfred Kielnhofer has send us the following pictures of his new series of sculptures names Light Guards (also named as time guards) that incorporate polyester figures with energy saving light sources. The result is pretty spectacular and is based on German mythology
The guardians of time are mystical sculptures who are travelling the worlds museums and exhibitions. Exclusively for Art Biennial Venice they made their journey to Italy. Each night they show up on a different spot in Venice. This unique light project is created by Manfred Kielnhofer.
http://www.lightart-biennale.com/page/4/
very cool!!
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)IcyPeas
(21,930 posts)they are moved around too. Very cool.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)really nice adventure in research...one of the reasons I love art research...
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)KC must be a great American city!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I haven't found the title or artist, just a few uncorroborated and sometimes conflicting details in brief references and photo notes.
The story is that the finger came first and the nose was added a year later. The (unidentified) artist is reported to have said that the following year a detail would be revealed that would indicate gender (so I guess that means the face, added about 2010).
There are claims that the direction the finger is pointing changes with tides and currents; that the finger always points to Jupiter; and that the finger points to the Jupiter Hotel. My money's on tides and currents.
If anyone wants to pursue this further, the location is in front of the Modern Art Museum of Stockholm, so there may be a connection there.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)the artistic visions behind these art projects are so diverse and wildly imaginative. I's a crazy ride in research compared to the rather sedate look back into the "eras" and "schools" of art that we encounter in so-called "fine arts" research...not that they don't have their idiosyncracies....