Monument With Standing Beast

Monument With Standing Beast

Sculpture


title = Monument With Standing Beast
artist = Jean Dubuffet
year = 1984
type = Fiberglass
height =
inch =
city = Chicago, IL
museum = James R. Thompson Center (outdoor)
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"Monument with Standing Beast" is a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the Helmut Jahn designed James R. Thompson Center in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Its location is across the street from Chicago City Hall to the South and diagonal across the street from the Daley Center to the southeast. It is at Ft to m|29 white fiberglass work of art.cite web|url=http://www.merchandisemart.com/artropolis/citywide_events/public_art/index.html|accessdate=2007-05-30|date=2007|publisher=Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.|title=Artropolis] The piece is a 10 ton or convert|20000|lb|kg|lk=on work.cite web|url=http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/dubuffet.html|accessdate=2007-06-06|year=1996|month=August|publisher=Chicago Public Library|title=Dubuffet: Monument with Standing Beast] It was unveiled on November 28 1984.

This is one of Dubuffet's three monumental sculpture commissions in the United States. Dubuffet uses his urban style combining graffiti, caricature and street language to juxtappose four elements that are said to represent a standing animal, a tree, a portal and an architectural form. The sculpture is based on Dubuffet's 1960 painting series "Hourioupe".cite web|url=http://www.state.il.us/cms/jrtc/beast.htm|accessdate=2007-06-06|title=Monument with Standing Beast] The sculpture and the series of figural and landscape designs it is a part of reflects his thoughts of earliest monumental commission, for the One Chase Manhattan Plaza.

The sculpture is one of 19 commissioned artworks funded under the State of Illinois Art-in-Architecture Program throughout the building. This was commissioned by the Illinois Capital Development Board.

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