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Miró's Chicago (originally called The Sun, the Moon and One Star) [1] is a sculpture by Joan Miró in Brunswick Plaza, Chicago, United States. It is 39 feet (12 m) tall, and is made of steel , wire mesh , concrete , bronze , and ceramic tile .
He studied at the University of Chicago, and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in industrial design in 1937. [1] Lippold worked as an industrial designer from 1937 to 1941. After he became a sculptor, Lippold taught at several universities, including Hunter College at the City University of New York, from 1952 to 1967.
Richard Howard Hunt (September 12, 1935 – December 16, 2023) was an American artist and sculptor. [2] In the second half of the 20th century, he became "the foremost African-American abstract sculptor and artist of public sculpture."
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The bean-shaped sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor is formally known as “Cloud Gate” and weighs 110 tons (99.8 metric tons). Chicago's iconic 'Bean' sculpture reopens to tourists after nearly a ...
Marion Perkins, Man of Sorrows, 1950. Art Institute of Chicago. Marion Marche Perkins (1908 – December 17, 1961) [1] was an American sculptor who taught and exhibited at Chicago's South Side Community Art Center and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. [2]
The Dia Art Foundation opened a long-term installation at Dia Beacon in 2022 of Edwards' barbed-wire sculptures from the late 1960s and early 1970s. [117] The sculptures exhibited had never been executed before, only existing in sketch form. [117] Edwards staged his first solo museum exhibition in Europe in 2024 at the Fridericianum in Kassel ...
Wire sculpture is the creation of sculpture out of wire. The use of metal wire in jewelry dates back to the 2nd Dynasty in Egypt and to the Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe. [ 1 ] In the 20th century, the works of Alexander Calder , Ruth Asawa , and other modern practitioners developed the medium of wire sculpture as an art form.