'Castle of the Eye II' by Minoru Nitzuma - New Orleans, LA
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'Castle of the Eye II' is a abstract marble sculpture by artist Minoru Nitzuma located at the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden within New Orleans City Park, Louisiana.
Waymark Code: WM12841
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/25/2020
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The patterns found in Castle of the Eye II demonstrate artist Minoru Niizuma’s awareness of his contemporaries, notably the “optical” painting movement that blossomed in the1960s, often referred to as Op Art. Niizuma’s carved lines and contrasting surfaces achieve a distinct play of light and shadow. Although the lines within each cube appear straight from a distance, small undulations along the marble edges create the appearance of vibration.
Niizuma was born in Tokyo in 1930 and graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1955. He moved to New York in 1959 and taught at both the Brooklyn Museum Art School and Columbia University. He encouraged a spiritual connection to the creative process urging students to find balance between the stone’s raw character and the message that the artists hopes to convey. Niizuma worked intuitively, responding to the natural texture and veins of each piece of stone and integrating contrasting elements such as smoothness and roughness, and strength and tenderness.
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