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1987 In Art
Events from the year 1987 in art. Events *10 December – Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) opens as a separate institution. *22 July – Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali is shot in London; he dies 28 August. Awards *Archibald Prize – William Robinson, ''Equestrian self-portrait'' * John Moores Painting Prize - Tim Head for "Cow mutations" *Turner Prize – Richard Deacon :Shortlisted were: Patrick Caulfield, Helen Chadwick, Richard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèse Oulton. Works *Alice Aycock – ''Three-Fold Manifestation II'' (sculpture) *Wayne Chabre – ''John von Neumann'' (gargoyle, Eugene, Oregon) * Martin Creed – ''Work No. 1'' * Rose Finn-Kelcey – Bureau de Change' (installation) * Ulrich Rückriem – ''Untitled'' (granite sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago) *Richard Serra – ''Fulcrum'' (Cor-Ten steel sculture, Broadgate, City of London) * Andres Serrano – '' Piss Christ'' (photograph) *Frank Stella – ''Decanter'' (sculpture, Houston, Tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10 December
Events Pre-1600 *1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. * 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice. *1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull ''Exsurge Domine'' outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. * 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. 1601–1900 * 1652 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy. *1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter. *1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Von Neumann (sculpture)
''John von Neumann'', also known as ''John von Neumann Gargoyle'' and ''Portrait Head of von Neumann'', is an outdoor 1987 copper sculpture by Wayne Chabre, attached to the exterior of Deschutes Hall on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The sculpture depicts the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann. The relief head is made of hammered copper sheet and measures approximately x x . It cost around $2,500. The sculpture's condition was deemed "treatment needed" by Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993. It is administered by the University of Oregon. The piece is one of a series by Chabre at the Eugene campus that includes scientists and mathematicians Albert Einstein ('' Einstein Gargoyle'', 1986), Sir Isaac Newton (''Isaac Newton Gargoyle''), Marie Curie ('' Marie Curie Gargoyle'', 1989), James Clerk Maxwell ('' Maxwell & Demon Gargoyle'', 1989), Alan Turing (''Alan Turing'', 1988), John von Neumann, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decanter (sculpture)
''Decanter'' is an outdoor 1987 sculpture by Frank Stella, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden in the U.S. state of Texas. It is made of stainless steel, bronze, and carbon steel, and was purchased using monetary contributions from the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund. According to the museum, the piece "offers a exuberant collage of forms which bursts out into space". See also * 1987 in art * List of public art in Houston Outdoor sculptures * ''African Elephant (sculpture), African Elephant'' (1982) * Alexander Hodge Memorial * ''Atropos Key'' (1972), Miller Outdoor Theatre * Beer Can House * ''Broken Obelisk'', Rothko Chapel * ''Brownie (sculpture), Brownie'' ... References 1987 establishments in Texas 1987 sculptures Bronze sculptures in Texas Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden Steel sculptures in Texas Stainless steel sculptures in the United States {{Texas-sculpture-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Stella
Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City. Biography Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts, to parents of Italian descent. His father was a gynecologist, and his mother was a housewife and artist who attended fashion school and later took up landscape painting. Deborah Solomon (September 7, 2015)The Whitney Taps Frank Stella for an Inaugural Retrospective at Its New Home''The New York Times''. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he learned about abstract modernists Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann, he attended Princeton University, where he majored in history and met Darby Bannard and Michael Fried. Early visits to New York art galleries fostered his artistic development, and his work was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piss Christ
''Immersion (Piss Christ)'' is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition, which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects. The work generated much controversy based on assertions that it was blasphemous. Serrano said of the controversy: "I had no idea ''Piss Christ'' would get the attention it did, since I meant neither blasphemy nor offense by it. I've been a Catholic all my life, so I am a follower of Christ." Description The photograph is of a small plastic crucifix submerged in what appears to be an orange liquid. The artist described the substance as his own urine in a glass. The photograph was one of a series of photographs th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist. His work, often considered transgressive art, includes photos of corpses and uses feces and bodily fluids. His ''Piss Christ'' (1987) is a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine. He also created the artwork for the heavy metal band Metallica's '' Load'' and '' Reload'' albums. Early life Serrano was born in New York City on August 15, 1950. He is from a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background, and was raised a strict Roman Catholic. He studied from 1967 to 1969 at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, yet is considered to be a self-taught photographer. In December 1980, he married artist Julie Ault. In a 2012 interview, Serrano references Ault as his "first wife" and Irina Movmyga as his current wife. Serrano has said that he is a Christian. Career He worked as an assistant art director at an advertising firm, before creatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadgate
Broadgate is a large, office and retail estate in the Bishopsgate Without area of the City of London. It is owned by British Land and GIC and managed by Savills. The estate is in part of the eastern City fringe, outside the line of the now lost defensive walls, and east of the former Moorfields; a part of the city that is often described as part of the East End of London. The original developer was Rosehaugh: it was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture and was the largest office development in London until the arrival of Canary Wharf in the early 1990s. The original scheme was designed by Arup Associates, Team 2, which was headed by Peter Foggo, who later left Arup to set up his own practice Peter Foggo Associates, where he completed the initial phase of works. Broadgate Circle is a civic space at the heart of the Broadgate Estate. The Circle was part of the original design by Arup Associates and was redesigned by the group in 2015. The key colonn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulcrum (sculpture)
''Fulcrum'' is a large sculpture by American artist Richard Serra installed in 1987 near the western entrance to Liverpool Street station, London, as part of the Broadgate development. The sculpture consists of five pieces of Cor-Ten steel, and is approximately tall. Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum The Design Museum in Kensington, London exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all funds generate ..., has called it one of London's "design icons". References External links * 1987 sculptures 1987 establishments in England Buildings and structures in the City of London Outdoor sculptures in London Steel sculptures in England Weathering steel Sculptures by Richard Serra {{UK-sculpture-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Serra
Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American artist known for his large-scale sculptures made for site-specific landscape, Urban area, urban, and Architecture, architectural settings. Serra's sculptures are notable for their material quality and exploration of the relationship between the viewer, the work, and the site. Since the mid-1960s, Serra has worked to radicalize and extend the definition of sculpture beginning with his early experiments with Natural rubber, rubber, neon, and lead, to his large-scale steel works. Early life and education Serra was born in San Francisco, San Francisco, California to Tony and Gladys Serra – the second of three sons. From a young age, he was encouraged to draw by his mother. The young Serra would carry a small notebook for his sketches and his mother would introduce her son as "Richard the artist." His father worked as a Pipefitter, pipe fitter for a shipyard near San Francisco. Serra recounts a memory of a visit to the shipyar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Institute Of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 million people annually. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat's ''A Sunday on La Grande Jatte'', Pablo Picasso's '' The Old Guitarist'', Edward Hopper's '' Nighthawks'', and Grant Wood's '' American Gothic''. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research. As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and one of the largest art history and architecture libraries in the country—the Ryerson an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Untitled (Rückriem)
''Untitled'' is an outdoor 1987 granite sculpture by Ulrich Rückriem, installed outside the Art Institute of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. See also * 1987 in art Events from the year 1987 in art. Events *10 December – Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) opens as a separate institution. *22 July – Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali is shot in London; he dies 28 August. Awards *Archibald Prize – ... * List of public art in Chicago References 1987 sculptures Granite sculptures in Illinois Outdoor sculptures in Chicago Sculptures of the Art Institute of Chicago {{US-sculpture-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
