I am hoping someone can help me identify the stainless steel sculpture on Belle Isle next to the yacht club? Someone in Spain commented that it reminded him of an Eduardo Chillida sculpture.
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I am hoping someone can help me identify the stainless steel sculpture on Belle Isle next to the yacht club? Someone in Spain commented that it reminded him of an Eduardo Chillida sculpture.
you have a very impressive eye. rajdet. great portfolio.
Gazelle, my butt. Looks like the duct work in my attic.
Apologies to you artists out there.
I couldn't agree with you more Ray, thanks for calling it like you see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ray1936
And thank you too gnome.
I always liked that sculpture. I think it does quite a good and graceful job of echoing in a modern style the beautiful Marshall Fredricks gazelle sculpture elsewhere on the island.
http://info.detnews.com/dn/history/marsh/images/23.jpg
http://www.richardbennettassociates....mGazelle_L.jpg
Looks like a claw hammer that needs Cialis
Sorry artists :confused: - I don't see it. I have to agree with Ray.
I always thought it was a large number "5" half buried. Made me think of "The Count" on Sesame Street every time i saw it.:)
My friend always said it reminded him of the hammer/sickle....
That was my other thoughtQuote:
Originally Posted by agirlintheD
It always looked like something that would appear on a Pink Floyd album cover to me.
A new name for Prince?
The picture with the land and blue sky behind it is beautiful.
Stunning, simply stunning...lol
I never noticed the thing.:confused:
I think it looks like the symbol for pi, leaning to the left, with it's right 'wing' bent over.
Hmmm, maybe I should be worried about myself . . . :confused:
Wish I could understand art more
It has nothing to do with understanding art. It actually has to be art before it can be understood as such. Sorry art snobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by stonechipped
Just because you dislike it doesn't change the fact that it is art. [[And no, I wouldn't say I'm an "art snob".)Quote:
Originally Posted by gumby
For those who say they can't "see" the gazelle, look again at the pics Eastside Al posted. The metallic one does resemble the shape of the other gazelle rearing up with the horns back.
No, just because a 5 year old autistic child could do it makes it not art. I think I saw an elephant paint something like this with its trunk once. Any retard who knows how to weld can do this. That is what makes it not art. Just because someone with a snooty attitude can explain their "vision" does not make it art. I am sick of the its art because I said so crowd. they give us:
Piss Christ
http://www.psychologytoday.com/files...hrist-1987.jpg
or flash mobs as art.
Modern art has been around for over a hundred years. Good luck with ignoring all of it, dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by gumby
Oh, I will, Dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pam
Every time I see that sculpture I think of the Russian sickle.
Well I don't know... I like it better than the Millenium Bell in GCP... which looks like a Swiss cow bell and makes me want to yell "REE-CO-LA"!!
Isn't there a law against littering or dumping trash on the island?
Somebody diniterred this months-old thread just to write a grouchy complaint about the last century + of western art? And post a picture of a work that has nothing to do with the subject of the thread to illustrate it? Wow... a little too much time...
And someone wasted their precious time to post a grouchy response...to a grouchy response...to a grouchy response...to a...
Isn't that how this internet forum thing works? :)
"What is art?" is a rich and complex question. If we all really wanted to wrestle, this could be the longest thread on DetroitYes, ... well maybe not longer than the Garwood thread. ;-)
Your photo blog is simply amazing....
Speaking of sculptures, and no I am not part of this project but it looks like a great book project to donate to. I for one would love to read this book about Belle Isle.
https://www.patronicity.com/project/..._photogaphy#!/
Research suggests there are five stages of aesthetic [[appreciation) development. This thread suggests many of the people on this forum are at level 1 or 2!
Descriptions of each stage are provided here:
https://vtshome.org/aesthetic-development/
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Reminds me of the story of an NYC art gallery opening, where patrons were looking at a toilet and several moldy pipes and a tarp in the middle of the gallery. After much ooh's and ahh's, and a positive newspaper review,Quote:
Gazelle, my butt. Looks like the duct work in my attic.
it turned out to be unfinished contractor debris.
Sold for $100,000,000. [[not). Butt cracks not included.
I was thinking of that sculpture, too, when I read that the OP's piece was supposed to be a gazelle. I think Marshall Fredericks did it much better! For some reason, that gazelle always gives me chills. I have never seen the Detroit version, only the one in Midland in Dow Gardens. Incidentally as a child of about 3 years old, I encountered and was fascinated by the Fredericks sculpture "The Lion and the Mouse" at Eastland Mall. I remember my parents had to drag me away from it kicking and screaming, lol. It was my first encounter with art and touched off a lifelong appreciation for it I think. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by EastsideAl
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Gazelle by Marshall Fredericks outside the Belle Isle Conservatory. Photo by moi January 2016
^^^ Awesome photo!