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Happy Fence Friday
Alyson Shotz’s Mirror Fence - it's the shape and size of a typical white picket fence
Look closely and you see that Sally and I (with camera), are being reflected in the mirrored fence slats. We're actually sitting on your side of the image too.
Happy Fenced Friday!
The Storm King Mountain, overlooking the Hudson River, gave its name to a landscaped sculpture garden that started in 1960. Many well-known artists of that era picked a spot to create work for it.
Isamu Noguchi went even further: he asked for a complete new hill. On top of this elevation, with views all around, he placed a large stone 'ensemble', named Momo Taro. The name refers to an ancient folktale about an elderly couple that - no doubt to everybody's surprise - still got a son. As the tale wants it, he emerged from a peach pit. The round stone - a colossal boulder that had to be split and hollowed out because it was too big to ship from Japan - reminded Noguchi of a giant peach, ready to consume. Visitors, especially children, are invited to enter the cavity and sing a song. The hollow shape resonates beautifully.
Landscaping is an integral part of Isamu Noguchi's oeuvre. He created several playgrounds and also made stage designs. It betrays an important aspect of his work: art is not only useful as an object of meditation or as an expensive luxury. Art should enrich daily life. Art and play are like brother and sister.
At the Storm King art Center with "Frog Legs" a 27 foot tall sculpture by Mark di Suvero in the middle on a hill in the background.
Andy Goldsworthy’s Storm King Wall winds around trees and boulders downhill through a forest. Then (on the right in this photo) the wall appears to submerge into a pond. On the other side of the pond the wall emerges and continues uphill to Storm King’s western boundary. The overall length of the Storm King Wall is 2,278 feet.
The Storm King Mountain, overlooking the Hudson River, gave its name to a landscaped sculpture garden that started in 1960. Many well-known artists of that era picked a spot to create work for it.
Isamu Noguchi went even further: he asked for a complete new hill. On top of this elevation, with views all around, he placed a large stone 'ensemble', named Momo Taro. The name refers to an ancient folktale about an elderly couple that - no doubt to everybody surprise - still got a son. As the tale wants it, he emerged from a peach pit. The round stone - a colossal boulder that had to be split and hollowed out because it was too big to ship form Japan - reminded Noguchi of a giant peach, ready to consume. Visitors, especially children, are invited to enter the cavity and sing a song. The hollow shape resonates beautifully.
Landscaping is an integral part of Isamu Noguchi's oeuvre. He created several playgrounds and also made stage designs. It betrays an important aspect of his work: art is not only useful as an object of meditation or as an expensive luxury. Art should enrich daily life. Art and play are like brother and sister.
The pond was so still, the reflection was clearer than the trees, so I flipped this photo. It's upside down. The colors were so intense, I actually amped down the color saturation a touch. At Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY -- November 4, 2018
You can hardly see it so far off in the distance but George Cutts’s Sea Change is composed of two identical, slender, curving, stainless steel poles that turn slowly in opposite directions.
A lot can be seen in the works of Alexander Calder but while looking at Five Swords recently, for the first time I saw the artist's initials.
Storm King Art Center, Cornwall, NY
"Yellow Outline" by Peter Coffin. Solyx film. Over the course of the day, the shadow moves across the gallery.
The sculpture through the window: "Luba" by Ursula von Rydingsvard, born in Germany, resides in Brooklyn, NY
The Arch is among the last of the monumental works Alexander Calder created before his death in 1976. Based on a nineteen-inch-high model that the artist conceived around 1940, The Arch was enlarged from a twelve-foot-high black-painted steel maquette in 1975.
From Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, New York):
"The two simple forms of Menashe Kadishman’s "Suspended" engage in a gravity-defying balance that belies expectation. Seen from a distance, atop one of two adjacent hilltops, the sculpture’s balancing act is surprising. Viewed up close, the massive scale of the steel work becomes apparent and its structural viability even more difficult to comprehend. With no visible evidence of the engineering holding the sculpture up, "Suspended" prompts contemplation of the relationship between its two conjoined, towering masses, coupled with questions about what lies below ground. Rich and rusted, the patina of the weathered steel wraps the stark geometric shapes in a skin-like sheath."
Storm King Art Center
Remembering the only real snow that I've seen this season. I'm a winter lover and the lack of snow and cold weather has been very disappointing.
Andy Goldsworthy's Storm King Wall winds around fifteen boulders along a grove of trees. Reflecting on his walls at Storm King, Goldsworthy has noted, “Trees, stone, people—these are the ingredients of the place and the work.”