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ART IN PUBLIC PLACES APPLICATION <br /> Artistic Goals,Themes,and Aesthetics Questionnaire and Guidelines <br /> Au.ust 13,2019 <br /> 4#4 ` .,;Seaegj.?Mzi5'.. <br /> • <br /> - corporate-owned art in recent years, and postmodernist trends have turned the <br /> message into the medium, to.art's detriment. <br /> One of the aims of this art installation is to probe these accepted boundaries on <br /> publicly displayed art on the one hand, and content-centered trends on the other, in <br /> the spirit of a city which has been at the forefront of publicly installed art to highlight <br /> an often-ignored dimension of public art, and the capacity of works of different <br /> traditions and styles to create aesthetic currents between them. <br /> 3) Explain how the design of the artwork is visionary and creative? <br /> How does it engage the community and invite interest? <br /> What about it is thought-provoking, entertaining, whimsical, original and/or <br /> representative of high artistic excellence in urban design and public art? <br /> Describe how it has emotional, inspirational, educational or intellectual impact? <br /> Overall, does it uniquely enhance community identity and generally enhance the <br /> public realm? <br /> Response: <br /> The most important goal is to enable the community and visitors to revel in the <br /> distinctive beauty which sculpture, and only sculpture,can embody and convey. <br /> No other art form has the physical presence and immediacy of sculpture, its brute <br /> and often enigmatic density, the fact that its substance beckoned to a creative mind <br /> from the entrails of the world-whatever the nature of its medium or the manner of its <br /> execution. <br /> Sculpture is also intimately bound to the life of any city. Beyond sculpture's role in <br /> ritual and commemoration, cities themselves have a sculptural identity that links the <br /> modern skyline to the primal structures that broke the savage plain and the held <br /> perpetual bank. Rising from the first order of plowed fields, promising language, law, <br /> • <br /> • and skill:the hulks of cities'would indebt us to forms in which we sought shelter, <br /> storage, and transcendence. "And so, sculpture - now the vessel of reflections on • <br /> ideas and emotions - is anchored to the birth of our sense of ourselves as dwellers -• <br /> • - instability, a grounding that may have even greater meaning for a city like ours. • <br /> Page 10 of 15 <br />