Construction in Space and in the Third and Fourth Dimensions
By Antoine Pevsner ..
Sculpted in 1959 by Russian Constructivist artist Antoine Pevsner,
the piece was installed at the Law School in 1964..
Reflective Pool was designed by Dan Kiley..
Location: University of Chicago Law School..
Laird Bell Quadrangle /1111 E. 60th Street..
The Law School building designed by Euro Saarinen..
Russian Constructivism was a movement that was active from 1913 to the 1940s. It was a movement created by the Russian avant-garde, but quickly spread to the rest of the continent. Constructivist art is committed to complete abstraction with a devotion to modernity, where themes are often geometric, experimental and rarely emotional. Objective forms carrying universal meaning were far more suitable to the movement than subjective or individualistic forms. Constructivist themes are also quite minimal, where the artwork is broken down to its most basic elements.
Ref: Russian Constructivism: Art History Archive..
2 comments:
Wow! You have featured 300 different public artworks on your blog? That's amazing. I need to go through your blog.
(btw, replying on this post, because I can't find the other one where you mentioned the 300 number. I read the post in Google Reader)
Hey Matt,
Welcome!!!
How did my post wind up on Google Reader?
Anyways, about the post you are referencing, [that you cannot find].. If you had read the entire post, it was one of my rare emotional outbursts on net, where I displayed some frustration and also some [or loads of] vanity.. After I published it, I regretted losing my composure and retracted the post!
Some anger does add a lot of fun, but my emotions should not be wasted..
But 300 plus - YES,
However, it includes posts on temporary exhibits..
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