Sunbather - Museum Gardens - Orlando, Florida.
N 28° 34.187 W 081° 21.987
17R E 464160 N 3160377
'Sunbather' a silhouette-style sculpture by Paul Marco, located in the Mennello Museum Grounds - Loch Haven Park - Orlando, Florida.
Waymark Code: WMEE00
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 05/14/2012
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The Park gardens surrounding The Mennello Museum of American Art, showcases unique and interesting sculptures at every turn. Many of the small welded silhouette-style sculptures, are by Paul Marco.
Sunbather is a small but interesting, sculpture approx 4 feet long, featuring a prone figure, painted black on the back and white on the front, the figure laying on a concrete plinth. The plaque names the sculpture, 'Sunbather'
The museum web site shows a photo of this sculpture and names the sculpture 'Sunbather' but the figure is painted pink in the web site photo.
"Czechoslovakian artist Paul Marco’s sculptures exhibit a variety of influences. The unique, rustic forms of his works recall the primitive setting of his home in Maine, while the animals forms and mask-like faces of his figures reflect the artist’s interest in and study of African sculpture and masks. Marco claimed that his art was “rich with association,” as he believed discarded pieces of early American farm equipment he used to create his works were fraught with latent meaning of the contemporary viewer. His works seem to emanate a type of exuberance and joy that comes from a respect for the past cooperating with an eye for creation.
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