Public Art
Essays

¶ … New York's Central Park and the original motives behind its creation, while thinking from its' two architect designers point-of-view, Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmstead. Central Park in New York is the first…

In an article discussing the connections between the famous muralist, and political activist Diego Rivera there is a statement about art that demonstrates both the depth of Rivera's involvement in the political and the…

Big Dig Project -- a Major Transportation Issue

I learned about sports purely from a spectator's perspective. Although I also love to play a variety of sports, I found myself increasingly drawn towards the business aspects of games whether that be NHL hockey or MLB…

Fountain is a form of public art that has been part of city life for many centuries. Modern fountains follow the same tendencies that modern sculpture and architecture take, leaning towards abstract and symbolist…

¶ … human nature to want to project our personal and societal values on others, there must be some cultural areas that are protected from our tendency to impose moral restrictions. Art is one of those areas.

Patrick Amiot and Brigitte Laurent are a husband and wife team working out of Sebastopol, California. Amiot salvages discarded material, mainly metal, for the use and re-use in the assembly of semi-public art.

As long as there has been art there has been public art. But this does not mean that public art has always meant the same thing to the people who made it or the community that it was made for.

Three page paper comparing two equestrian monuments. The first page or so describes one art work in detail using terms like sculpture in the round and iconography. It provides some historical and political context. The rest of the paper compares and contrasts this statue to another. The two pieces in question are "Man Controlling Trade Statue" (Federal Trade Commission) and "Andrea del Verrocchio" (Bartolommeo Colleoni-equestrain statue)

This is a three page paper about Bauhaus, the design movement, and talks about the differences between bauhaus in weimar where it started and the Bauhaus movement in dessau where it came to fruition and became a business as bauhaus became interested in industrialization and manufacture of furniture and other items that were designed including magazines and typeface, which is why the movement is important.