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- AMWV_050916_012.JPG: Antony Gormley "Quantum Cloud XXX":
"Is the energy field creating the body or the body creating the energy field? Is this a body that is deconstructing or is it a gas cloud that is cooling into a star?"
English sculptor Antony Gormley asks us to consider these two questions about "Quantum Cloud XXX", Since the early 1980s, he has used his own body as material and subject to explore the issue of being in the world, drawing inspiration from modernism and Eastern philosophy. His works are not self-portraits, however, but use the body as a universal form that is also rooted in identity. He is interested in exploring the tension between the space a body contains and the space it projects into, and between mind and matter. Gormley's sculptures are not meant to be observed passively, but are intended to "create a place of feeling" that reflects the viewer's own body, actions and thoughts, thus completing the work.
The "Quantum Cloud" series continues these explorations, incorporating concepts from quantum physics and fractal theory that find pattern and meaning in the seemingly random. In each work, the figure of a man coalesces from a cloud of steel rods, conveying motion and flux. The most dramatic of the pieces is the ninety-foot high Quantum Cloud in the Thames, next to London's Millennium Dome. The steel rods radiating from the figure vibrate in the wind, making the equation of energy and matter even more evident.
- AMWV_050916_018.JPG: They're planning to build a new museum on the site of an existing parking lot in the city. This is the model for it.
- AMWV_050916_023.JPG: This shows you the location of the new museum. I walked across both of the bridges pictured here.
- AMWV_050916_081.JPG: John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
"Portrait of Mrs. George Gribble [Norah]", 1888
Oil on canvas.
- AMWV_050916_102.JPG: William Bradford, American, 1823-1892
"The Voyage of the Polaris", 1875.
Oil on canvas.
The painting depicts the ill-fated 1871-73 American expedition to find a route to the North Pole. Led by Captain Charles Francis Hall, the ship's international crew included several Eskimos he had met on a previous voyage. After reaching the farthest point then achieved by any Arctic explorers, the Polaris was forced by the ice to take up winter quarters in Thank God Harbor in northern Greenland. There, in October 1871, Captain Hall died, poisoned with arsenic, possibly by the ship's doctor. It is this winter camp at the time of Hall's death that is shown in the painting. The Polaris finally broke free of the ice in August 1872 but was almost crushed when the ice shifted two months later. The crew moved supplies onto the ice floes in an effort to save the ship, only to be abandoned when the Polaris suddenly broke free. Nineteen people were stranded, floating on an island of ice as it drifted south. The skills of the Eskimos, including a family with a newborn baby, kept the castaways alive until they were rescued on April 30, 1873. A search party located the rest of the Polaris' crew in Greenland that July.
- Wikipedia Description: Art Museum of Western Virginia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Art Museum of Western Virginia is an art museum located in the city of Roanoke in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Location:
The Museum is currently located in Roanoke's Center in the Square, but will move in 2008 to a new $66-million, 81,000 square foot building designed by Los Angeles architect Randall Stout. The new museum will be named the Taubman Museum of Art, in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Taubman, who have been its largest donors.
Collection and exhibits:
The Museum's permanent collection focuses on American art, with an emphasis on the artistic expressions of the Western Virginia and the Appalachian region. The collection includes works from Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Childe Hassam.
History:
The Art Museum of Western Virginia began in 1947 as an offshoot of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, with an exhibition in the Hotel Roanoke. In 1951 this "Roanoke Fine Arts Center" was incorporated as an independent organization. Renamed in 1980 as "Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts", the museum moved to downtown Roanoke's Center in the Square in 1983. In 1992, the Museum was renamed as the "Art Museum of Western Virginia".
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