Anish Kapoor

My new favorite artist. Holy cow. I am going to be making a trip to Chicago just to see this sculpture - Cloud Gate at the Millenium Park.

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I was reading Bright Earth by Philip Ball, about the technology behind color (pigments, painting, reproducing colors digitally, and so forth). And in the beautiful art plates, he had a picture of "As If To Celebrate I Discovered a Mountain Blooming with Red Flowers":










And, much later in the book, a picture of A Wing at the Heart of Things (this image is from a collection of photos):








I thought, "These look like they're by the same person." Which was easy enough to check. And then, "I've seen something like this before." Fifteen years ago, at one of the Smithsonian galleries, I saw Mother as a Void:













I had tried to take a picture of it, but it had just come out as a black space in a yellow room, because the color was so intense. I had saved the photo, even though it was so terrible, because I just loved the sculpture so much. Even this picture doesn't do it justice, though you can get something of the flavor.

So, what can I say, I love these works. I've always had a thing for spheres. I don't have a favorite color, but I definitely have a favorite shape. And I can't wait to see more of Anish Kapoor's art and learn more about it.

Anish Kapoor