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"The Bowman and The Spearman" ... made by Yogoslav/Croatian Ivan Mestrovic (1928)
1928, Bronze figures, H 17 ft. (each)
Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund ..
LOCATION: Grant Park, Michigan Ave. at Congress Pkwy.
Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic intended his monumental figures to commemorate the Native American and symbolize the struggle to settle this country. The figures are lean and muscular, tensed for the actions of hurling a spear and releasing an arrow. Mestrovic has heightened the forcefulness of these gestures by making viewers use their imaginations to supply the missing weapons. Although they are modeled in-the-round, the equestrians are viewed to their most monumental effect as relief silhouettes against the sky.
A part of Chicago Public Art Program ..
*NOTE* - Ivan Mestrovic [1883-1962] is a WORLD RENOWNED sculptor. Though born in Croatia, he later took American citizenship. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had personally presided over the ceremony to grant Mestrovic the American citizenship in 1954!!! He was the first person to have a one man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
2 comments:
Ivan Mestrovic was born in Croatia 1883 (which was then part of the Austro Hungarian empire). His parents, grandparents and grand-grandparents were Coats and he always considered himself Croat (what else he can be?).
The citizenship is another thing.
He left Yugoslavia because he did not liked communism.
Yugoslavia was an artificial state which - mind you - did not exist prior to 1918, and even then it was called Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. That monarchy was re-named Kingdom Yugoslavia in 1929.
I am writing this to show that there's absolutely no sense in calling Ivan Mestrovic Yugoslav sculptor, as you stated. He was Croat.
Valentino, who cares, at one point we all were yugoslavians or croats or whatever.. if you don't have anything to say about his art work, then don't post stupid information that no one cares about..
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