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The carvers, it was hoped, would blend traditional, Sepik River themes with the ideals of Western modern art such as individualistic expression and the creation of art solely for a contemplative gaze (so-called "art for art's sake"). That is, the carvers were given an opportunity to "break free", in a sense, from the conventional aesthetic ...
The museum first opened in 1894 and consists of over 130,000 sq ft (12,000 m 2) of exhibition space, including sculpture gardens. The Cantor Arts Center houses the largest collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin outside of Paris and the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City , with 199 works, most in bronze but others in different media. [ 2 ]
Brookgreen Gardens is a large (more than 9,000-acre (3,600 ha)) nature preserve, established by the Huntingtons in 1931 as a place to showcase not just Anna's art, but that of other contemporary sculptors. The sculpture garden takes up about 550 acres (220 ha) of the property, and is the only portion included in the landmark designation.
Outside the museum is a sculpture garden, featuring works by artists including Auguste Rodin, David Smith, Alexander Calder, Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy, Jeff Koons, and others. [8] Yoko Ono's Wish Tree for Washington, DC, a permanent installation in the Sculpture Garden (since 2007), now includes contributions from all over the world. [9]
Animaland Park, defunct sculpture garden and amusement park in New Brunswick; Boreal Sculpture Garden, St. John's, Newfoundland [22] Canadian Centre for Architecture, museum and research centre in Montreal, Quebec. The architect Phyllis Lambert is the founder [23] Dante Garden, sculpture garden of Dante's Divine Comedy in Toronto, Ontario.
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks and his wife, Maggie Keswick Jencks, on Maggie's land and their home together, Portrack House, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Like much of Jencks' work, the garden is inspired by modern cosmology.
The sculpture garden was founded in 1967. It spans more than five acres and has more than 70 international sculptures, by figural and abstract artists such as Jean Arp , Deborah Butterfield , Alexander Calder , Barbara Hepworth , Jacques Lipchitz , Henry Moore , Isamu Noguchi , Auguste Rodin , David Smith , Claire Falkenstein , Gaston Lachaise ...
Sculpture gardens have a long history around the world – the oldest known collection of human constructions is a Neanderthal "sculpture garden" unearthed in Bruniquel Cave in France in 1990. [3] Within the cave, broken stalagmites were arranged in a series of stacked or ring-like structures approximately 175,000 years ago.