Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois is an amazing artist who is famously known for her sculptures, but also her drawings. She was born in 1911 in Paris and moved to New York in 1938, where she then started studying art. At first, she began creating wooden sculptures, by over time she developed a love for working with multiple mediums. This piece, titled Rabbit was created in 1970 and was made using Bronze. Its dimensions are 23.25 x 10 x 6 inches.

Duchamp

With Bicycle Wheel, he launched the concept of the “readymade” which is an everyday object that is art because the artist says so.  The readymades are widely viewed as the birth of conceptual art. Yet given that, a century later, we’re still not done with the “but is it art?  Since the artist say it's art i t is considered art.  His works were very shocking given they day they came out.  I like this piecer because if you glance at it you can tell it is machine like  but in realty its not a machine its a bike. 

Constantin Brancusi

Brancusi was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer. He was one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. This piece is called "Fish" and was done in 1926. The fish is supported by a circular disc which is a "pool" and allows it to be rotated. When viewed from a certain angle it is so thin it almost seems to disappear. The "fish" is made of bronze and the "pool" is made of metal and the stand is all wood. Since the circular stand is metal you can see the reflection of the fish like it was an actual pool of water.

George Segal- Depression Bread Line

The sculpture that I chose is by George Segal. It is titled "Depression Bread Line. The reason that I chose this is because I think that it depicts a very real time in American history and it is an important part of history that we must not forget. There is real detail in the sculpting of the people waiting on the line. What i get from them is cold, tired and hungry. Something that most people were probably feeling during the great depression in America. The sculpture was created in 1999.

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder wanted to create abstract painting that moved through space is what led him to his moving, motorized works. "A Universe" has two spherical shapes that travel at different rates during a 40 minute cycle. Calder had in interest in astronomy and compared the moving parts of this sculpture to the solar system.   This sculpture was an important step that got him to his constellation series.

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas was a French sculptor, painter, and much more from 1834-1917. He considered himself a realist. More than half his works were images of dancers. The dancer above is made of bronze and found in the Met in NYC. I really like this piece because it represents dancers of all styles even though he titled it the Spanish Dancer. As a dancer myself I find this a pose most dancers do know and practice. The dancer looks elegant and relaxed in this piece.

robert rauschenberg

Sor Aqua (Venetian) was made by Robert Rauschenberg in 1973. It is made of a water filled bathtub, wood, rope, and a glass jug. The dimensions of the sculpture is 98 x 120 x 41 inches. It is currently on display on the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The inspiration for this sculpture was from Rauschenberg's experiences in Venice, a "floating city". In the words of The Museum of Fine Arts "In ennobling an ordinary bathtub Rauschenberg conjures an air of grace in decline." He mimics the canals with the water, and the aging city with rustic beams. Rauschenberg is a master of metaphor in every fine art he worked through, such as dance, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance.