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Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor

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Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi’s living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Mueck’s one of the leading contemporary artists of today.

The fountains and art of Isamu Noguchi

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Isamu Noguchi (1904 - 1988) was a prominent Japanese-American artist and architect, whose career spanned from the 1920s until his death six decades later. Known widely for his sculptures and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets and also various lamps and furniture pieces. Noguchi took this water tap illusion one step further and developed nine "floating" fountains for the World Expo in Osaka, Japan. The effect is stunning and surreal, and appears as if the boxes are seemingly held in the air by the force of the water. It also reminds me vaguely of the floating boxes in Super Mario Brothers.

That's a bus stop?

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What an interesting design for a bus stop! This fully functioning bus stop is in Ventura, California, and looks like a mutant snake house. The face of the house vaguely reminds me of the strange house in Beetlejuice. The designer of the bus stop is Dennis Oppenheim, a pioneering artist in conceptualism, land art, body art, video, and sculpture since the 1960s. In 1997, he created the sculpture shown below called "Device to Root out Evil," which is now located in Harbour Green Park, the longest continuous waterfront park in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.

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