Ideals (sculpture)

Ideals

The sculpture in 2015
Ideals
Location in Portland, Oregon
Artist Muriel Castanis
Year 1992 (1992)
Type Sculpture
Medium Bronze with green petina
Dimensions 1.8 m × 0.84 m × 1.1 m (6 ft × 2.75 ft × 3.5 ft); 1.8 m diameter (6 ft)
Condition "Well maintained" (1993)
Location Portland, Oregon, United States
Coordinates 45°31′40″N 122°39′30″W / 45.527831°N 122.65838°W / 45.527831; -122.65838Coordinates: 45°31′40″N 122°39′30″W / 45.527831°N 122.65838°W / 45.527831; -122.65838

Ideals is an outdoor 1992 bronze sculpture by Muriel Castanis, located outside the Portland State Office Building in northeast Portland, Oregon.

Description and history

Plaque for the sculpture

Ideals was commissioned in 1991 as part of the One Percent for Art in State Buildings Collection. It was completed by Castanis in February 1992 and installed at the northwest exterior corner of the Portland State Office Building (800 Northeast Oregon Street) in the Lloyd District. The bronze with green patina sculpture measures approximately 6 feet (1.8 m) x 2.75 feet (0.84 m) x 3.5 feet (1.1 m). It rests on an aggregate base which has a diameter of approximately 6 feet (1.8 m) and weighs 850 lbs. The Smithsonian Institution categorizes the work as abstract and allegorical ("hope") and describes it as a "standing female-like figure in the form of a hooded drapery garment with no visible figure inside".[1] The Public Art Archives describes the sculpture as an "illusion of a human female form, defined by the draping and gathering of cloth rather than the positive space of the form herself".[2] The figure is illuminated by four footlights in the base and its proper left arm is raised. The piece was surveyed and considered "well maintained" by Smithsonian's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993. Ideals is administered by the State of Oregon's Arts Commission.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Ideals, (sculpture).". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Ideals". Public Art Archive. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
External image
Ideals, University of Oregon Libraries
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