The Audience
- Title
- The Audience
- LC Subject
- Sculpture Metal sculpture Aluminum Figure sculpture Sculpture, Abstract aluminum (metal)
- Creator
- Morandi, Thomas (Tom)
- Description
- A detail view of the side of a disconnected female aluminum figure. Her hips are non-existent, but her legs start protruding out with bended knees at the ends of her thighs. Her stomach and torso protrude out seemingly connect to her arms, which are leaning on a thin slice of aluminum. Her shoulders and back are missing as well. 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_a10
- Item Locator
- MOO:90-16
- Accession Number
- 1990_eou_loso-hall_18_a10
- 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- This award was originally made to enhance Loso Hall at the Eastern Oregon State College.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)
