Laumeier Sculpture Park: Artist Analysis

Janet Echelman is an artist who considers the cutting edge of sculptures, public art, and urban transformation in her art works. Her art work in question “Her Secret Is Patience” uses a cactus flower shape as a symbol for the Arizona desert city of Phoenix. Her art work is held by three leaning poles that are forty to hundred feet high. According to Janet her act work was inspired by the patience of the saguaro cactus, she say, “It’s a spiny cactus putting down roots in search of water in the desert, saving up every ounce of energy until, one night, in the middle of the cool darkness, it unfurls one succulent bloom” (Artforms, p. 6) The center of her art work is the colors of the net being both everlasting and ever changing, solid yet spacious,

On Saturday, November 4th, I visited the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. The piece of art I decided to write about is called “A Mountain Symphony (Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado)” This two-dimensional oil on canvas painting was completed in America in 1927 by Sven Birger Sandzén. This painting has not been on public view since 1927 and is located in the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado. It was a “Free Day” at the museum, so I decided to attend by myself. I was unable to get a picture of myself in front of the work of art I decided to write about, but I did get several pictures of the artwork and a picture of myself with the “Free Day” sticker. I decided to write about this work of art because it was the only piece in the museum that really stood out to me and really caught my attention. A Mountain Symphony is a lively, beautiful landscape painting with a vibrant pallet filled with luminosity and broad brushstrokes. The sculptural quality of the paint surface reflect the influence of turn-of-the century modernist techniques. The balance of color and light brings happiness and joy to the viewer.

Lauren Berkowitz is a contemporary installation artist. Installation art can be described as a three-dimensional painting, sculpture, poem, and prose work, which is usually transient and site-specific. This very modern art practise makes Berkowitz’s expression of Australian landscape is completely different to the previous two artists, Glover and Drysdale. Her work is made with an almost obsessive attention to detail after painstaking research and, ultimately, total dedication to the moment of making.

around the room. In role as a museum guide, I conduct a tour of the

The pergola can be more closely seen in the next image, reprinted from the same source and measuring 4 by 6 inches, as well as in the third and fourth images, which are photographs from Souvenir Views of the Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco California 1915 (7 in. x 11 in.) There were ochre columns, topped by boxes, mixed with pale green ones. The boxes were originally meant to house small trees and hanging vines, but these were not planted for budgetary reasons. At each corner of the boxes stood statues of women looking inwards, sculpted by Ulric Ellerhusen. They were meant to represent the melancholy of life without art. The colonnades stood along the side of the lagoon, as can be seen in the second image, with the reflection of the tranquil water adding a pleasant element.

Social histories “focus on everyday life experiences of various groups in the past” (Martin & Nakayama, 2012). When looking at the left side of the sculpture, a glimpse of what Native Americans needed to do to remain sustainable is depicted through the tools they had to craft themselves in order to gather food and resources. This suggests that their normal day of life was to gather resources in order to make it through the day. In contrast, the right side depicts the growth of architecture and commerce. For example, the dollar sign that sits upon the farther left building is suggestive of the capitalistic ideals of modern day America. This is

the memorial then drawn by the young student in architecture Yale University is today the most visited monument and the most revered in the USA, recognized as a masterpiece architectural (Langmead, 2011). Hundreds of thousands of visitors are excited and comforted by reading and touching the names of the dead and missing inscribed on the black granite wall in form V. In view of the visitors and memories they file with the names of their dear departed, the observer must recognise that Maya Lin has achieved its goal: "This memorial is dedicated to those who are not here; for that we remember them” (Fleming,

I attended the Art & Geology: Landscape Impressions exhibition in the Martha Gault Art Gallery located on campus. The art work was from students who go here at Slippery Rock University and was a collaboration between the Art & Geology department and the Geography & the Environment department. The students went to the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Dr. Patrick Burkhart has been taking students the Badlands National Park for years and decided to bring along Dr. Katherine Mickle. 10 years later, both Art and Geography students, Dr. Burkhart, and Dr. Mickle go as one group to coordinately go over the landscape. All the artwork was very fascinating to look at and each was unique and taken from or inspired by the Badlands. A lot of the artwork

He was born on January 28, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a sculptor best known for his public art installations. His sculptures often featured very large replicas of everyday objects. He was also a pop artist. A pop artist is a sculptor or painter that, paints or sculpts everyday objects. He often worked in close partnership with his wife Coosje van Bruggen. The Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture completed in 1988 by he and Coosje van Bruggen is on display at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Oldenburg made his first show at the Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square. The show presented his three dimensional works. In 1959, Oldenburg had many kinds of work of art. He developed his skill by creating sacking,

Our world is full of so many grandiose monuments, eye-catching sculptures, and stunning statues, each having an individual story to tell. Thousands of them have been created however, only a small number of them are actually extraordinary and picture-worthy. This paper will compare and contrast two of those picture-worthy sculptures. Furthermore, I will examine the aspects of each of these sculptures. I will compare and contrast what each of them represents, the differences in texture, their size and their tone.

The de Young museum seen from a distance is a bold architectural statement, with its sleek horizontal building, indeterminate dark brown color and its massive tower emerging from its slightly bent curving roof. The building is an example of boldness, internationalism and cultural neutrality. Its setting in the Golden Gate Park’s landscape with the topography, vegetation; weather and light are taken advantage of. The significance of nature and the art that is housed in the museum from the Americas, Oceania, and Africa can be seen as having resonance in the architecture. Many of the works of art are sacred in their cultures, are made of natural materials and were never intended to be displayed in formal settings. Post modern theme of ‘context’ comes into expression as Jacques Herzog put it: “These objects belong to nature. We wanted to emphasize that”.

Sculpture in the Expanded Field discusses the sculpture had become through historical timeline. Category of sculpture, which classify the genre of genre by defining visible and invisible evidence. “a motley of effort the right to lay claim to whatever one might mean by the category of sculpture. Unless, that is, the category can be made to become almost infinitely malleable.” She said. After postwar in American, criticism frequently comes along with the category, which kneaded, stretched, and twisted in domestication of flexibility, which also can be stretched to include anything.

When Allan Kaprow installed ‘Yard’ in 1961, Abstract Expressionism still held sway. Kaprow filled the outdoor courtyard of the then Martha Jackson Gallery with tires, a gesture whose documentation has become iconic. Kaprow expanded sculpture’s possibilities, giving us a dramatically new approach to the problem of solids and voids. It was also an attempt for art to create a new physical sensorium for viewers, a longing for interaction between art and viewer, incorporating them into the art and thus making them part of the art. Artists heard the call to action and responded in kind. And so began the work of environments and happenings, followed by installations, performance, and relational aesthetics. The work “Yard” is still relavent roday, and has been reimagined and recreated as lately as 2009.

On Thursday I took my personal field trip around campus to observe the permanent sculptures as well as the ones on tour. I really enjoyed looking at both but I personally felt that I enjoyed the permanent ones better and that is what I will write about in this paper. The permanent sculptures resemble students and faculty at Western Michigan University. In contrast, the sculptures on tour did not relate so much to the students or campus as much but they did relate to the state of Michigan. While I was observing the sculptures, I did have one favorite and that the was Dunes because it painted an accurate illustration in my head when I was observing it. I decided to take my personal field trip in the morning instead of in the afternoon

Initially, when I walked up to this sculpture my thoughts were the name of the piece pretty much sums it up. Approaching the statues, they seem to just be large bronze masses on the corner of McCaul street but, as any art should be looked at, I decided to dig deeper than the superficial. The location is odd to me, mainly because the bronze forms are not alone in the corner of the building, but are not really impacted by its surroundings. The trees behind the statue are dead giving a desolate atmosphere invoking a sense of loneliness. Moreover, almost the entire area surrounding the piece is solid concrete, giving a very penitential outlook. I’m not sure if the sculpture’s initial approach is supposed to invoke miserable emotions but if so it does its job