And, in the 90s, they became the inspiration for a popular piece of pop art by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, a giant safety pin also known as Corridor Pin, Blue.
Corridor Pin, Blue AKA the giant safety pin is a foot tall sculpture made of stainless steel and aluminum with blue acrylic polyurethane enamel. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created many giant versions of everyday things while they were married sadly van Bruggen passed away in It was installed there in , but there are several other copies in existence. This section contains affiliate links from which we might make a commission from your purchases, at no cost to you.
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Val is the founder and head road tripper at Silly America. Its enamel finish gives it the effect of a sharp blinn texture and adds to its hyperrealistic effect. Its presentation is also reminiscent of a computer model, balancing the pin at a physically impossible angle.
The presentation forces the viewer to look a the piece from an unusual perspective, looking up at an object roughly 15 feet taller than yourself also adds to the grandiose effect. Semiotics is relatively unprepared to deal with a work of this nature.
It simplicity leaves no obvious meaning behind the work. This work, and the work of other pop artists attempts to remove any of the deeper meanings that semiotics seeks to unveil. However not all meanings have been removed. A giant safety pin might be interpreted as a signifier for corporate dominance, or democracy within our culture.
In addition to analyzing the piece itself the experience of viewing such a work could yield some meaning. The viewer of the piece becomes dwarfed by the pin, which can be read as having cultural implications. It might be commenting upon the weight and value we place on objects in our consumer society. This oversized safety pin carries the same sense of levity that his earlier more famous soft sculptures held. His work address the idea of scale not in the indirect way that many artists, such as Magritte, have done using depth cues, figure ground relationships, and other visual cues to create disparities in scale.
The piece itself is gorgeous, its simple aesthetic appeal and towering size make it a wonder to view. The beauty that the sculpture brings to such a common object through a use of scale makes the piece all the more enchanting. Week 9. Week 10 -- McFadden House -- Week 11 -- Reggie Bush Stadium. Week 11 -- Enrique Alferez -- City Park. Week 11 -- Enrique Alferez -- Fountain of the Winds. Week 12 -- Enrique Alferez -- Shushan Airport. Week 12 -- Enrique Alferez - marble chip and granite cast -- Molly Marine.
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