Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Wind signal (spheres)
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Alternate Title:
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Signal éolien (sphères)
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Image View:
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Overall view in sculpture garden
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Creator:
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Takis (Greek (modern) sculptor, born 1925)
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Location:
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repository: Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
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Location Note:
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623, chemin des Gardettes
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GPS:
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+43.70059+7.115085
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Date:
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2005 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Kinetic (style); Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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iron, fiberglass spheres, fiberglass cone (base)
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); metalworking
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Measurements:
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450 cm (height) x 120 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; kinetic sculpture; wind vane
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Description:
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Takis is world-renowned for his investigations of the gap between art and science. Takis, who describes himself as an "instinctive scientist," employs powerful, elemental forces to generate the forms, movements, and musical sounds of both his static and kinetic works. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-TAKIS-MF-SE-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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