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Artist Robert Morris Title Untitled Year 1965, reconstructed 1971 Medium Mirror glass and wood Dimensions Each cube: 914 x 914 x 914 mm – overall display dimensions are variable Location Tate, London Morris’s Minimalist sculptures of the mid-1960s consist of rigorously pared down…
Title: Bust (protome) of Demeter or Persephone Origin: Greek, Classical period, Date: about 450-400 B.C. Medium/Technique: Terracotta and paint Dimensions: 43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.) Location: Museum of Fine Arts Boston There’s something mesmerizing about ancient Greek art—its ability to…
Artist : Salvador Dalí Title: Retrospective Bust of a Woman Date :1933 (some elements reconstructed 1970) Medium : Painted porcelain, bread, corn, feathers, paint on paper, beads, ink stand, sand, and two pens Dimensions: 29 x 27 1/4 x 12…
Art or Just Plumbing? Technical Details Imagine walking into an art exhibition and finding… a urinal. Just sitting there. Not part of a bathroom, not connected to any plumbing—just a standard, off-the-shelf, porcelain urinal turned on its side and placed…
Material: MarbleTechnique: Work sculpted through the use of: chisels (also square-tipped and toothed) raspsDate: Late Republican period (133–31 B.C.), Collection: Torlonia Museum Among the numerous imperial busts arranged along the gallery that sumptuously concluded the exhibition itinerary of the Torlonia…
Roman marble figurine Title: Four snuggled up puppies Date : 1st century BC, Collection : Naples National Archaeological Museum Enchanting marble figurine, a masterpiece that showcases four playful puppies frolicking together, dating back to the 1st century BC. Unearthed in…
The Statue of Marforio Roman marble sculpture Year 2nd century AD Subject OceanusThe name is a corruption of Latin mare in foro, “the sea in the forum” (inscribed near the statue’s original location) Location Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums Marforio is a large 2st century Roman marble sculpture of…
Constantin Brancusi, Title: The Bird in Space, date : 1932 – 1940, medium: polished copper, dimensions: 137 x 22 x 16.5 cm The development of the bird theme in Constantin Brancusi‘s oeuvre can be traced from its appearance in the Maiastra sculptures (1910–18)…
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Lobster Trap and Fish Tail Alexander Calder, title : Lobster Trap and Fish Tail Date : 1939 ; Media : Painted steel wire and sheet aluminum Dimensions : 8′ 6″ (260 cm) x 9′ 6″ (290 cm) in diameter Collection…
Strongly influenced by tribal sculpture, the irregularly modeled head has a bright red tongue as an extension of the neck, while the nose itself, adorned with a painted spiral, follows a parallel horizontal line. Suspended at mid-height by a thread,…
Yayoi Kusama, Title: Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, S1B Date: 2009 ; Media : Fiberglass-reinforced plastic, metal and all-weather urethane paint Dimensions: 81 ⅛ × 85 ⅞ × 48 ⅜ inches (206.1 × 218.1 × 122.9 cm) This article is…
In 1957, Calder was commissioned to make a monumental work for the International Arrivals Building of Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) by the Port Authority of New York. “People think monuments should come out of the ground,…