May Day Theme: The Creative Artisan

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The Cloisters. NYC

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Nov 16, 2012

This week's challenge:
'Constructed'.

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Inspiration

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration.

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Figure in the Garden

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Figure in the Garden

May 20, 2011–Ongoing

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, exterior, first floor

Sculpture Garden installation brings together figurative works from the late 19th century to the present day. Making its debut in the Sculpture Garden is Figurengruppe/Group of Figures, by contemporary German artist Katharina Fritsch (b. 1956). Conceived in 2006–08, the work features nine life-size sculptures of, among other figures, St. Michael, a Madonna, a giant, and a snake, all rendered in precise detail and finished in bold colors. Religious symbolism and references to mythology abound, yet any fixed meaning remains open and elusive. Group of Figures is joined by earlier works such as Auguste Rodin’s heroic St. John the Baptist Preaching (1878–80) and Aristide Maillol’s pensive Mediterranean (1902–05). Striking a casual pose in his derby hat is Elie Nadelman’s Man in the Open Air (c. 1915), and perched atop a tall pedestal is Gaston Lachaise’s open-armed, voluptuous Floating Figure (1927). Perennial favorites like Picasso’s She-Goat (1950) and Miró’s Moonbird (1966) are on view as well, in addition to works by Renée Sintenis, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, and Tom Otterness.

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The Moment of Creation

From Carlos Castaneda's Journey to Ixtlan

People tell us from the time we are born that the world is such and such

and so and so, and naturally we have no choice but to see the world

the way people have been telling us it is.

Seeing happens only when one sneaks between the worlds;

The world of ordinary people and the world of sorcerers.

The real thing is when the body realizes that it can see.

Only then is one capable of knowing that the world we look at every day

Is only a description.

My intent has been to show you that.

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge,

Because the art of a warrior

Is to balance, the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

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