Add us to the list of dorks using nudity to get you to read stuff about art -- the Seattle Times (also on your dork list) reports that the Olympic Sculpture Park will have a nude tenant thanks to artist Louise Bourgeois.-snip-
In Bourgeois' proposal for the sculpture, the life-sized figures face each other but are obscured from each other by a cloak of falling water that, at hourly intervals, will shift to reveal first one figure, then the other, at the ringing of a bell.
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This all flows from the legacy of a man who left $1 million to the city to build a public fountain -- with his own special twist: the work had to incorporate at least one realistic nude male figure.
Now, relayed in our dorky, shorthand fashion, the requirement seems a little salacious and even, gasp, dirty. But we're guessing old Stu Smailes wasn't just getting his jollies and that his interests were genuinely artistic. We plunk down lots of money for our jollies but we'd never mess around with a cold hard $1M. Can't wait for the park to open. In the meantime, here's a virtual tour of other Bourgeois works.
-- j
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