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MINNEAPOLIS
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Copyright: JOAN I NATALIA (PARDAL) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 115 W: 0 N: 151] (680)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-16
Categories: Artwork
Exposure: f/4.9
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-18 10:20
Viewed: 1262
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Minneapolis es la mayor ciudad de Minnesota y el centro del Condado de Hennepin. Linda con Saint Paul, la capital y la segunda mayor ciudad del estado. Juntas forman el centro del área metropolitana de las Ciudades Gemelas, con unos tres millones de residentes.
La ciudad se encuentra en la parte suroeste del estado y se extiende a lo largo del Río Mississippi. También hay 24 lagos en la ciudad.

Escultura de Claes Oldenburg, conocido por sus esculturas de gran tamaño de objetos cotidianos.


Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
Spoonbridge and Cherry 1985-1988.

Claes Oldenburg is best known for his ingenious, oversized renditions of ordinary objects, like the giant "soft" three-way plug and overturned bag of french fries in the Walker's own collection. He and Coosje van Bruggen, his wife and collaborator, had already created a number of large-scale public sculptures, including the Batcolumn in Chicago, when they were asked to design a fountain-sculpture for the planned Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The spoon had appeared as a motif in a number of Oldenburg's drawings and plans over the years, inspired by a novelty item (a spoon resting on a glob of fake chocolate) he had acquired in 1962. Eventually the utensil emerged--in humorously gigantic scale--as the theme of the Minneapolis project. Van Bruggen contributed the cherry as a playful reference to the Garden's formal geometry, which reminded her of Versailles and the exaggerated dining etiquette Louis XIV imposed there. She also conceived the pond's shape in the form of linden seed. (Linden trees are planted along the allées that stretch before the fountain.) The complex fabrication of the 5,800 pound spoon and 1,200 pound cherry was carried out at two shipbuilding yards in New England. The sculpture has become a beloved icon in the Garden, whether glaceed with snow in the Minnesota winters or gleaming in the warmer months, with water flowing over the surface of the cherry and a fine mist rising from its stem.
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Hola als dos!

M'agrada l'aire "hi-tech" de la foto. L'skyline de la ciutat amb l'escultura aquesta que suposo vol dir moltes coses està molt ben vist.

Una foto curiosa vaja.

Salutacions, Òscar

Ei amics!! Una foto mol curiosa per l'escultura però destaca també el conjunt de tot, parc, edificis i cel emboirat. Preciosa la presa.
Per cert la foto d'avui no ha desaparegut. (Les fulles de colors)

Salut !

Josep

salut joan i natalia
une statue originale, d'une cuillére et d'une cerise, belle lumiére et couleur, la netteté est au rendez vous pour un travail excellent
amitiés
gilbert

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  • TopGeo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2139 W: 76 N: 3160] (14054)
  • [2007-04-20 14:22]
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Hi joan,
the sky ..it was too expensive..
bye TopGeo

Hola!
una bonica imatge amb bons colors i composició. L'escultura realment és curiosa i original no?
Salutacions,
Sònia.

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  • cessy Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2257 W: 99 N: 2341] (13573)
  • [2007-04-30 13:36]

Hallo Joan/Natalia
very nice cityscape captured
the cherry gives a nice accent amd very well placed in the frame
Maybe you can crop bottom part a bit, I don't think the lamp on the left side help for composition

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  • thor68 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 787 W: 146 N: 890] (5035)
  • [2007-05-12 16:34]

nice capture, well composed with good colors.
i really like the green all around and the
great minneapolis skyline in the bg.
well done & take care, thor.

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