The Audience
- Title
- The Audience
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Metal sculpture Aluminum Figure sculpture Sculpture, Abstract aluminum (metal)
- Creator
- Morandi, Thomas (Tom)
- Description
- An aluminum female figure set against a wall and surrounded by geometical aluminum shapes. Her legs protrude out from the wall and appear to rest upon another aluminum structure. The rest of her legs disappear after the thigh into the wall. Her hips are non-existant and her torso is hidden behind another aluminum shape. The hair or headdressing of the figure is abstract, with pieces of aluminum protruding in all different directions. EOSC detail; 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_a08
- Item Locator
- MOO:90-16
- Accession Number
- 1990_eou_loso-hall_18_a08
- 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- This award was originally made to enhance Loso Hall at the Eastern Oregon State College.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)
