Matinee Idol (detail)
- Title
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Matinee Idol (detail)
- LC Subject
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Sculpture
Public sculpture
Public art
Metal sculpture
Bronze sculpture
sculpture (visual work)
public sculpture
bronze (metal)
- Creator
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Morandi, Thomas (Tom)
- Description
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An abstracted bronze sculpture with the base being a large 'x' with five red squares surrounding the right leg of the 'x'. Above that are more bronze shapes and plates with a yellow and purple object in the middle. It is as if this bronze sculpture is holding this yellow and purple object, maybe as a shield.
Untitled; [no.] 4; 3/4 front
Tom Morandi received his B.S. in Art Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Ohio University in 1971.He has been a Professor of Art at Oregon State University since 1989.
tmorandi@comcast.net; tmorandi@oregonstate.edu
The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
- View
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detail
- Location
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The Valley Library >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
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121 The Valley Library, Corvallis Oregon
- Date
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1975/2012
- Identifier
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1995_osu_valley-library_43_a03
- Accession Number
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1995_osu_valley-library_43_a03
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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Morandi, Thomas (Tom)
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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19 x 14 x 11 inches
- Material
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Sculpture;
- Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
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1995 - 1997 Biiennium Valley Library Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon
1995_osu_valley-library
- Has Version
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slide; color
- Institution
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Oregon Arts Commission
University of Oregon
- Note
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To view a map of the artwork location in context to Oregon State University, see http://oregonstate.edu/cw_tools/campusmap/locations.php
- Color Space
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RGB
- Biographical Information
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While it's apparent that I've employed the kind of banal imagery that defines the pedestrian notion of Western culture, it is, I hope, also evident that the work is saturated with whimsey and parody. It is aggressively frontal. The paper thin bronze shell appears to be cut or torn from a larger form. The gestural lines and geometric shapes that have been added emphasize the lack of volume and mass. This sculpture is a facade; a formal tribute to superficiality. And yet, sometime during the process of making this piece it asserted itself. It grew beyond the idea that engendered it. It has a presence that exceeds my intent. (Morandi, 1995)