The Gates by bmac62
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It is called Scrap Metal Art. I wonder why? LOL
These ornate and purposefully rusty gates are in the new Bloch Building of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
"Metal art welding is basically a form of sculpting in reverse. Whereas sculpting starts from a block of stone and the process entails the removal of all material not part of what is to be the finished piece, metal art welding starts with nothing and keeps on adding pieces until the work of art in completed. Two processes, converse to each other, but resulting in the same end."
Excerpt above quoted from the fistfire website. Click Here
Btw, the person behind the gates is Tara (auntietk). She is looking at another welded pile of metal on the wall...and found it had all the great characteristics of composition, colors, shapes and forms that we've all come to value in more conventional art. :)
Bill:)
"16th Century Italian Armor"
Comments (34)
Chipka
Nice! I've always liked sculpture like this; there were pieces like these gates in Chicago, formed from old automotive castoffs--and let me tell you, spark plugs are quite interesting when they are busy being artistic rather than spark-pluggy! I love the overall composition of this picture and the way Tara is such a vital and organic part of it, in gym shoes no less! Great work. Wonderful details and a glimpse into a museum I'd love to visit!
neiwil
Ugly and beautiful at the same time.The sort of piece you could walk past dismissively but find yourself drawn back to.I'd be more interested in the giant sweetcorn...yummy.
cfulton
Different and creative - reminds me of a visit to the Tate Modern in London. I love the lighting and the shadows on the wall, Clive
anahata.c
another sensitive & beautifully seen museum capture. You are so natural at this. It's a lovely & crazy set of gates, lots of fun & menacing, because of the hatchets, wrenches, hammers & other strike-worthy stuff the artist stuffed into this gate. It's got a spindly messy quality to it, and you caught it with beautiful light atop, streaming down on it. (I'm impressed with this museum, and it has a fine chronicler in you; we can see that you've been here alot, you capture it with genuine familiarity.) We get to see the gate's twists & turns & textures too. And---you caught it partially covering what looks like a warhol (far left)---I guess warhol (because of the repeated facial images, though it might be someone else---and a famous work next to it, "Tracer," by Rauschenberg, which has some real collisions of imagery incl people looking at things as if in a gallery, and which ends in a wonderful airy female and an eagle and some just plain childlike drawings (done with Rauschenberg's characteristic play)...and of course that glorious messy thing that Tara's looking at, next to a pure 100% Pop Art painting on the right, unencumbered by the gates: Boy, is that an intuitive choice on your part. You gave it in its entirety, so it can stand there and be as bold and imposing as pop art paintings are, esp of del monte, corn, cigarettes & salad dressing. And see, with all that art in "collision"---in one shot---you still got open space & quiet: You really understand museums, my friend. This is a quiet reflective shot, filled with explosions; and the gates themselves are fun, with their nervous lines and all those elongated tools. It's art about art, and I love it.