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1988 In Art
Events from the year 1988 in art. Events *Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl *Donatello's bronze '' Judith and Holofernes'' is replaced on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence by a replica and moved inside the Palazzo Vecchio. *David Hockney begins a series of paintings at his seaside home in Malibu, California. Exhibitions *July – '' Freeze'', Surrey Docks, London Awards *Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – ''John Beard'' *Turner Prize – Tony Cragg Works *Artists of Ramingining, Northern Territory, Australia – ''Aboriginal Memorial'' *Francis Bacon – '' Second Version of Triptych 1944'' * Gordon Bennett – '' Outsider'' * Wayne Chabre **Gargoyles (Eugene, Oregon) ***''Alan Turing'' ***''Drosophila Fly Head'' **''Grasshopper'' (sculpture, Salem, Oregon) *Eldon Garnet – ''Little Glenn'' (bronze statue) *Rachel Joynt – ''People's Island'' (brass installation, Dublin) * Nabil Kanso – '' Dance of Salome'' (first series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiasma
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Francis Bacon (artist)
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included Crucifixion of Jesus, crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. Rejecting various classifications of his work, Bacon said he strove to render "the brutality of fact." He built up a reputation as one of the giants of contemporary art with his unique style. Bacon said that he saw images "in series", and his work, which numbers in the region of 590 extant paintings along with many others he destroyed,Harrison, Martin.Out of the Black Cavern. Christie's. Retrieved 4 November 201Archivedon 11 November 2019 typically focused on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. His output can be broadly described as sequences or variations on single motifs; including t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Of Salome (paintings)
''The Dance of Salomé'' is the title of a series of 160 works consisting of 85 paintings and 75 drawings created by Nabil Kanso Nabil Kanso (1940-2019) was an American painter. Kanso began his career in New York. His works dealt with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and were marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the p ... in 1988 and 1995. It is based on biblical and literary works with particular reference to Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play and Richard Strauss’s 1905 opera. The primary subject of all the works in the series is Salomé who is depicted in a sequence of scenes reflecting various nuances of perception in distinctive dance movement. References External links Paintings depicting Salome Modern paintings Series of paintings by Nabil Kanso 1988 paintings Salome, Dance of Salome (paintings) 1995 paintings Dance in art {{20C-painting-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Kanso
Nabil Kanso (1940-2019) was an American painter. Kanso began his career in New York. His works dealt with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and were marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large-scale formats. They reflected movement and tension embodying intense colors and symbolic forms addressing social, political, and war issues. The Vietnam War and the Lebanese Civil War profoundly affected the development and scope of his themes dealing with violence and war. His long-running '' Split of Life'' series encompassed an extensive range of enormous paintings depicting scenes of human brutality and suffering. Life and work Nabil Kanso grew up in a house adorned with Italian and Oriental art. In 1961, he went to England, and attended the London Polytechnic studying mathematics and science. In 1966, Kanso moved to New York, and enrolled at New York University where he received BA and MA in art histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Joynt
Rachel Joynt (born 1966 in County Kerry) is an Irish sculptor who has created some prominent Irish public art. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 1989 with a degree in sculpture. Her father, Dick Joynt, was also a sculptor. Rachel Joynt is preoccupied by ideas of place, history and nature, and her work often examines the past as a substrate of the present. Her commissions include ''People's Island'' (1988) in which brass footprints and bird feet criss-cross a well-traversed pedestrian island near Dublin's O'Connell Bridge. She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make ''Perpetual Motion'' (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway. This has been described by Public Art Ireland as 'probably Ireland's best known sculpture' and was featured, as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin, in ''The Apology'', a Guinness advert. Joynt also made the 900 underlit glass cobblestones which were installed in early 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Glenn
Little Glenn is a human-size bronze statue of a young working-class boy pulling a stone obelisk in a four-wheeled cart. On the obelisk are carved the words "To serve and protect", the motto of the police force of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Little Glenn is located on the intersection of Bay and Grenville, in front of the Metro Toronto Police Headquarters. It was erected in 1988 by the Canadian sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ... Eldon Garnet as a part of a composition of three human-size sculptures surrounding the police station. External linksEldon Garnet website Toronto Police Service Monuments and memorials in Toronto Outdoor sculptures in Canada Bronze sculptures in Canada 1988 sculptures Statues in Canada {{Canada-sculpture-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldon Garnet
Eldon Garnet (born 1946) is a multidisciplinary artist and novelist based in Toronto, Ontario and a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. From 1975 to 1990 he was the editor of ''Impulse'', a Canadian magazine of art and culture. Career Garnet was born in Toronto, Ontario. His first solo show was in Toronto at A Space in 1975. Surveys of Garnet's sculptures and photographic work have been held at the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the Amsterdam Center of Photography. His first novel, ''Reading Brooke Shields: The Garden of Failure'' was published by Semiotext(e), in 1995. ''Impulse Archaeology'', a collection of articles from his years as editor at ''Impulse'' magazine (1975-1990), was released by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. His novel "Lost Between The Edges" was published by Semiotext(e), MIT. His recent novel, ''Categories of Disappearance'' is available from impulseb.com. He is also known for his public art wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grasshopper (sculpture)
''Grasshopper'' is an outdoor 1988 copper sculpture by Wayne Chabre, located in Salem, Oregon, United States. Description and history Wayne Chabre's ''Grasshopper'', dedicated in 1988, depicts an insect of the same name, mounted in a head-down position on the exterior brick wall of a building at 455 Court Street Northeast. The brazed copper sculpture measures x x . It was surveyed and considered "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in August 1993, and was administered by the City of Salem's Community Development department at that time. See also * 1988 in art Events from the year 1988 in art. Events *Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl *Donatello's bronze '' Judith and Holofernes'' is replaced on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence by a replica and m ... References External links ''Grasshopper'', (sculpture)at Waymarking 1988 establishments in Oregon 1988 sculpture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drosophila Fly Head
''Drosophila Fly Head'' is an outdoor 1988 sculpture by Wayne Chabre, installed on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States. The hammered copper sheet high-relief of a fly head measures approximately x x . It was surveyed by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in March 1993, though its condition was undetermined. The sculpture is administered by the University of Oregon. See also * 1988 in art Events from the year 1988 in art. Events *Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl *Donatello's bronze '' Judith and Holofernes'' is replaced on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence by a replica and m ... References 1988 establishments in Oregon 1988 sculptures Animal sculptures in Oregon Copper sculptures in Oregon F Sculptures of insects Outdoor sculptures in Eugene, Oregon Sculptures by Wayne Chabre University of Oregon campus Heads in the arts {{Oregon-scu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Turing (sculpture)
''Alan Turing'', sometimes spelled ''Allen Turing'' and also known as ''Allen Turing Gargoyle'', is an outdoor 1988 hammered copper sheet sculpture of Alan Turing by Wayne Chabre, installed on the exterior of Deschutes Hall on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States. The portrait face in high relief measures approximately x x and cost $2,500. Its condition was undetermined when the Smithsonian Institution surveyed the work as part of its "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in March 1993. See also * 1988 in art * ''Alan Turing Memorial The ''Alan Turing Memorial'', situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England, is a sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Turing is believed to have taken his own life in 1954, two years after being convic ...'' (2001), Manchester, England * Statue of Alan Turing (2007), Bletchley Park, England References 1988 establishments in Oregon 1988 sculptures Busts in Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Chabre
Wayne Chabre (born 1947) is an American sculptor from Walla Walla, Washington. His works have been described as "whimsical". Many of his sculptures are functional, such as gargoyles and downspouts; railings and gates; lighting, pavilions, fountains, and benches. Early life and education Chabre was born in 1947 and raised on a farm in Walla Walla County, Washington. He attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, then joined the Peace Corps, where he served as a graphic designer in the Agricultural Information Service in Lesotho, Africa. After his Peace Corps service he lived in Estacada, Oregon for three years, then moved to Portland, Oregon. In 1975 he returned to Walla Walla. Public art Washington Many of Chabre's works are commissioned by the Washington State Arts Commission under a construction set-aside program. His works are displayed to the public in Kirkland, Washington; Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma; at a fire station in Seattle, Mercer Island; Waitsburg; Washington Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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