2017年4月25日星期二

Public Art

      There are many artworks around the world. However, Chicago is no exception, there are many public arts around downtown. Among of them, the Cloud Gate is the most famous, and it was created at Millennium Park. It looks like a bean, so people call it bean too. Also, it looks like Sun Wukong's somersault cloud, and it was the scenes of the movie "The Break-Up" and "The Vow". That's why I am looking forward to visiting it. It was created by a British artist Anish Kapoor, and it was welded by 168 stainless steel without seams. It measured  20 meters in length, 13 meters in width,  10 meters in height, and it weighs 100 tons. Thus, it such as a big mirror with bean shape. When I look at it in the distance, I could see the Chicago skyline on it.  If I walk close by it, it such as a distorting mirror.  On the bottom of Cloud Gate, there is a place that people can walk into it. It was called "omphalos". In Geek, it means"navel". When I walk into this place, I would suddenly feel dizzy. That was awesome to visit it.



            Nearby the Cloud Gate, there are others public arts.  The Crown Fountain was close by Cloud Gate. The two fountain were designed by Jaume Plensa, and they were opened in 2004.  They were made with black granite, glass brick, and LED screen. It measured 15 meters in height. Thus, even though at night, people can see it shining at night, and the two tower always shows the different faces.

        Go south, I can find the Art Institute Public Gardens and the Art Institute Public Lions. They were created by Henry Spencer Moore and Edward Kemeys. They both were the gift, and they both were made by bronze. The Gardens look like a dancing woman, and the lions look very majesty.


      Crossing the Michigan Ave and turn into E Randolph St. I can see the "We Will" It was created by Richard Hunt, and it was made by stainless steel. It measured 35-foot tall, and it such as a torch, and the "fire" looks like dancing in the breeze.


    Follow the E Randolph and through four blocks, then turn into the W Randolph, I find the "Monument with Standing Beast".  It such as a 3D graffiti or caricature. It was made with fiberglass and it created by Jean Dubuffet in 1984. It colors black and white. It looks very abstract, I thought that the artwork reflects the author's inner world, and it was very hard and messy.













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