Tag: Jean Dubuffet
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Embarcadero Center – La Chiffonniere
Embarcadero Center * Jean Dubuffet – La Chiffonniere With “La Chiffonniere,” French artist Jean Dubuffet conveyed a woman dressed in rags by utilizing petal-like layers of curved stainless steel edged in epoxy Dubuffet (1901-1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called “low art” and eschewed traditional standards…
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Embarcadero Center –
More on the Embarcadero Center, San Francisco. Walk inside the Hyatt Regency adjacent to Embarcadero Center One, ride the escalator up and, behold, Charles O. Perry’s “Eclipse”, a 40-foot high geodesic sphere consisting of 1,400 pieces of curved metal tubing joined together in pentagons and supported by three massive steel legs. Continue out onto Justin Herman…