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Monday was supposed to be stormy, so we skipped our planned trip into New York City. I had been searching for alternative activities when Cindy brought up the Storm King Art Center, on the other side of the Hudson from us. The rain wasn't supposed to start until mid afternoon, so we went over when we finished breakfast.
So here's another series of modern art for you...
A beautiful piece by Sarah Sze, called "Fallen Sky." The museum was founded in 1960, and this is one of the most recent pieces.
Menashe Kadishman’s Suspended is one of the most famous pieces here. Adam, by Alexander Liberman is on the hill behind it.
Study in Arcs, by David Smith. It was inspired by a drawing of a mother and child. I like how it follows the tree behind it.
On the top of the hill around the museum building (which has galleries for smaller pieces, but was not open when we were there), are several of these large bronze baskets. They hold snakes, tortoises and ropes. I was not able to find them on the website, and saw no markers, so I don't know who made them.
Alyson Shotz’s Mirror Fence
David von Schlegell’s three-part untitled work at the base of Museum Hill is one of the first sculptures that Storm King’s founders commissioned. Here you see one of three floating squares. Yes, you can see the poles that support them, but I like that it feels like they're floating, and somewhat enigmatic, like a UFO.
Free Ride Home, by Kenneth Snelson. Touching the ground at just three points, the creatively engineered sculpture is fashioned from a network of stainless steel cables knotted to aluminum tubes. Installing at Storm King in the spring of 1975, a crew of just four raised the entire structure in under an hour. Free Ride Home is a prime example of Snelson’s play with organic forms constrained by internal structural tension, a push-pull system he invented in 1948. In this system, inspired by anatomy, cables function like muscles and the aluminum tubes like bones.
Next, we have Mark DiSuvero. I have a love-hate relationship with his work. Some of it I like, some of it I don't. Most of it seems like it's just a bunch of girders thrown together. They're more work than that, of course, since many of the components are specially fabricated, but it comes down to whether you find any particular assemblage attractive.
I like the one in Milwaukee. It's very geometric, and I like the contrast between the heavy steel girders, and the sunburst form. But the ones at Storm King...
This is the first sculpture we saw upon getting out of our car. It stands on a low hill next to the parking lot. It's very different from most of his work, since it has shapes other than girders. So that kinda caught my eye. It's called Frog Legs. It's OK.
I like Neruda's Gate. Minimalist. It's a bit of an illusion, too, since the uprights lean. The slanted beam seems to lean a different angle depending on where you're standing. I wish you could get a feel for the scale - I think the crossbar is about fifteen feet high. The three works in the background are very far away, of course (the park is 500 acres). The one on the right is called E=MC2. It's DiSuvero's tallest piece, at 92 feet (28 meters).
Mon Père, Mon Père, a memorial to his father. A common element of DiSuvero's work is hanging elements. Here, there is a V hanging from the tip of a tripod. I kind of like the geometry and the balance. Not bad.
All of DiSuvero's work at Storm King: link
So here's another series of modern art for you...
A beautiful piece by Sarah Sze, called "Fallen Sky." The museum was founded in 1960, and this is one of the most recent pieces.
Menashe Kadishman’s Suspended is one of the most famous pieces here. Adam, by Alexander Liberman is on the hill behind it.
Study in Arcs, by David Smith. It was inspired by a drawing of a mother and child. I like how it follows the tree behind it.
On the top of the hill around the museum building (which has galleries for smaller pieces, but was not open when we were there), are several of these large bronze baskets. They hold snakes, tortoises and ropes. I was not able to find them on the website, and saw no markers, so I don't know who made them.
Alyson Shotz’s Mirror Fence
David von Schlegell’s three-part untitled work at the base of Museum Hill is one of the first sculptures that Storm King’s founders commissioned. Here you see one of three floating squares. Yes, you can see the poles that support them, but I like that it feels like they're floating, and somewhat enigmatic, like a UFO.
Free Ride Home, by Kenneth Snelson. Touching the ground at just three points, the creatively engineered sculpture is fashioned from a network of stainless steel cables knotted to aluminum tubes. Installing at Storm King in the spring of 1975, a crew of just four raised the entire structure in under an hour. Free Ride Home is a prime example of Snelson’s play with organic forms constrained by internal structural tension, a push-pull system he invented in 1948. In this system, inspired by anatomy, cables function like muscles and the aluminum tubes like bones.
Next, we have Mark DiSuvero. I have a love-hate relationship with his work. Some of it I like, some of it I don't. Most of it seems like it's just a bunch of girders thrown together. They're more work than that, of course, since many of the components are specially fabricated, but it comes down to whether you find any particular assemblage attractive.
I like the one in Milwaukee. It's very geometric, and I like the contrast between the heavy steel girders, and the sunburst form. But the ones at Storm King...
This is the first sculpture we saw upon getting out of our car. It stands on a low hill next to the parking lot. It's very different from most of his work, since it has shapes other than girders. So that kinda caught my eye. It's called Frog Legs. It's OK.
I like Neruda's Gate. Minimalist. It's a bit of an illusion, too, since the uprights lean. The slanted beam seems to lean a different angle depending on where you're standing. I wish you could get a feel for the scale - I think the crossbar is about fifteen feet high. The three works in the background are very far away, of course (the park is 500 acres). The one on the right is called E=MC2. It's DiSuvero's tallest piece, at 92 feet (28 meters).
Mon Père, Mon Père, a memorial to his father. A common element of DiSuvero's work is hanging elements. Here, there is a V hanging from the tip of a tripod. I kind of like the geometry and the balance. Not bad.
All of DiSuvero's work at Storm King: link
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