The Audience
- Title
- The Audience
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Metal sculpture Aluminum Figure sculpture Sculpture, Abstract aluminum (metal)
- Creator
- Morandi, Thomas (Tom)
- Description
- A close-up view of three figures hanging on a wall surrounded by thin geometrical sheets of aluminum. Two of the figures are connected by the same aluminum rectangle. The top one is a woman figure, in a relaxed pose, with her legs crossed on top of a thin sheet of aluminum. The man below her has his left arm held in front of his face. He is missing his right arm and left lower part of his leg. EOSC detail; (LOSO Hall); Morandi 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: Eastern Oregon Regional Arts. You may view their website at http://www.artseast.org/
- View
- detail
- Location
- Loso Hall, Eastern Oregon University >> Union County >> Oregon >> United States Union County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- One University Boulevard, La Grande Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1990_eou_loso-hall_18_a03
- Item Locator
- MOO:90-16
- Accession Number
- 1990_eou_loso-hall_18_a03
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Morandi, Thomas (Tom)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 8 x 30 x 3 feet
- Material
- Sculpture; Metalwork; cast aluminum
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1990 Eastern Oregon University Loso Hall 1990_eou_loso-hall
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- This award was originally made to enhance Loso Hall at the Eastern Oregon State College. In 1997 Eastern Oregon State College became Eastern Oregon University. For a campus map, detailing the location of Loso Hall, see http://www.eou.edu/visitor/map/
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- This sculpture is a play between illusion and reality; the viewer and the viewed. The figures are, in essence, body masks. They are intended to reflect the postures and attitudes of a typical audience. However, a number of the figured pay whimsical homage to some well known images in Western art. God giving life to Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; Cherubs; Jesters; etc. The sculpture is aggressively frontal. As the viewer shifts perspective the hollowness and two-dimensionality of the figure is evident, just as the reality of a play dissolves when one walks behind the set. (Morandi, 1990)
