Anish Kapoor
Anish
is one of the best sculptors alive and one of the most important. He is even
one of the best artists in history in my opinion. His use of so many different
materials and forms is as long a list as any you will find.
The
first thing is his style. His style is at first glance very much looks like
minimalism but look closer and think for one more moment. His style formally is
very curvy and feminine. I first saw his work and thought it was a woman
because of the curves and how they were so graceful like a dancer. It’s a very
different take on feminine forms, but how do we define what feminist styles
even are. Some of his work looks like giant lipstick and makeup powders.
Another female use of items and forms. This in a way is very distorted.
Speaking of distorted his most well
known piece is in Millennium Park Chicago Illinois. The people of Chicago call it The Bean but that is not its real title its real title is
Cloud Gate. The piece is a huge silver bean like structure in the middle of the
park. The surface is polished chrome plated steel. The point of the shiny
surface is to reflect the city and its people in real time back at the viewer
and then in a distorted form of vision because of its shape is a bent image.
Because of this surface the upkeep
is extensive and expensive.
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