Jun 26, 2012 | Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, sculpture
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An abstract human form sits at an angle on a curved bench. There’s no focus at all on accuracy or perfection here, which somehow just makes it more pure. Moore wasn’t worried about the head-to-body ratio or even choosing a sex for this figure– he seems focused on the positioning of the long legs and arms, and the framing of the figure against the curved backdrop.
The entire piece is a rough brown monochrome that seems to exist somewhere between wood and metal. The bronze is easily masqueraded as wood in the curved wall, with horizontal lines that resemble a tree more than incised metal. The figure has shoulders that reach too far back and a head that seems to jut out of its torso, but above the head the wooden wall rises, framing the figure asymmetrically as he or she looks and gestures across the space.
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Jun 25, 2012 | inspiration
Some of my favorite pieces are ambiguous ones– not the “Untitled”‘s (those just make me want to tear my hair out), but the smudged and crisscrossed ones that seem chaotic and inspired at the same time. There needs to be some direction, some vision for any piece to have purpose. But it’s where we’re free to imagine what comes next that makes them so beautiful.
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Robert de Niro, Sr. (Jan. 17, 1922 – 1993): Boy with Guitar, pre-1966 – charcoal
Found here.
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Gary Benfield, Harmony
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Jun 21, 2012 | news
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| © Le Voyage à Nantes (via HuffPost) |
When Nantes, France shut down its shipyard– one of the biggest in the world, its young mayor decided to reinvent the city with contemporary art as its backbone.
This art is large-scale, massive even, and placed outside where everyone can see. Last year more than 200,000 tourists visited during the summer, and this year’s marketing campaign aims to draw 40,000 more.
There’s an 18th century stone house that looks like it’s being swept away by the Loire River, a 200-foot skeletal creature anchored to the beach that becomes more or less visible with the tide, plus a four-story mechanical elephant that took over the city’s abandoned docks.
For more on Nantes, check out the original story on Huffington Post Arts.
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