Farrah in fine arts. (The Roving Eye).MILLIONS know Farrah Fawcett Farrah Fawcett (born February 2 1947) is an American actress. She became a noted pop culture figure and sex symbol of the 1970s and into the 1980s, shaping the landscape of fashion and pop culture. as an actress and sex symbol. Now, she's getting recognition as a fine artist. The exhibit "Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett 2000" is set to open at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. next month. The show will feature six sculptures, along with several photographs and drawings, created by sculptor Keith Edmier and Fawcett. The centerpiece, after which the exhibit is named, is a sculpture containing a marble figure of Fawcett created by Edmier and Fawcett's portrait of Edmier cast in bronze Cast in Bronze is a traveling carillon, consisting of 35 cast bronze bells, played by Frank DellaPenna with fists and feet. The total weight of the instrument is 4 tons. . Fawcett didn't want to simply pose for Edmier, said Lynn Zelevansky, LACMA's curator and head of the museum's Modern and Contemporary Art Department. "It's like the muse looking back" at the artist, she said. "Keith is interested in celebrity but he's not interested in the way that Andy Warhol Noun 1. Andy Warhol - United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) Warhol or a Jeff Koons Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955), is an American artist. He is noted for his use of kitsch imagery using painting, sculpture and other forms, often in large scale. Life and art Early life and work is interested in celebrity," Zelevansky explained. "Keith is interested in the way celebrity impacts the individual." The exhibit is the seventh in the "Contemporary Projects" series at the museum and runs through Feb. 17. Zelevansky's concedes some might not take the show seriously because it features the work of a celebrity. "That's going to be a very tough aspect of the show. It's going to be seen as not serious," she said. "But I think that there'll be people who will get it, for whom it will mean something." |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion