Wednesday, November 29, 2006

992 Sculpture Park Photos, 2 of 3

We were walking down a path and came around a corner, and found a statue of a man painting. Naturally, we looked at the easel to see what he was painting, and then we looked to see what he was looking at, and it was this scene. (I don't know the name of the painting, or the original artist.) Some of the greenery in the garden is live and some is fake. The chairs and the figures from this vantage point are faithful to the painting, but when you walk down into it, you notice that everything is "off", out of kilter. The man, for example, looks right from this angle, but when you stand near the man and woman, you find that the man is huge compared to the woman. And the chair on the right is not sit-in-able. The original painting does have the boat. The boat is not there now, probably removed for the winter. This particular shot is from a prior visit by Daughter and Hercules, but I wanted to use it because of the boat.
We also stumbled upon that painting of the picnic with two men and a woman in the foreground, and another woman in the background, bent over standing in a pond. Everybody is rather heavily dressed except the foreground woman, who is blissfully naked, with her clothing and hat piled next to her. It was reproduced down to the leaves, and a real pond the second woman was in. Didn't get a photo of that one.

I recently saw this installation in a magazine. Of course, I don't remember the name or the artist, but I do remember the subject. It's depression-era men lined up at a soup kitchen door. Again, I had to behead the live person.

Pregnant lady. Not a fountain. Still. Quiet. Contemplating. Protecting.

Water feature.

Same as above, but from a much more interesting angle.

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