Video: The Miracle Tree: Vibrant Urban Sculpture by Jean Wells
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“Like a miracle tree grows at our gates,” wrote Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky almost 90 years ago. On the urban sculpture Jean Wells grows, however, not "stockings and shoes" - the dream of post-war children, but soda, sweets and fast food - the dreams of modern schoolchildren. Mosaic food products grew on the branches of the City Fruit Tree, which stands at the entrance to the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles.
Californian sculptor Jean Wells loves bright colors, shiny surfaces and quality materials. With their help, the author creates the embodiment of mass culture - products of famous brands (mainly fast food and sweets, performed in a sugary manner). The large sizes of pop bottles, ice cream and marshmallows hint that the value of these delicacies is too exaggerated.
If you take a closer look, it turns out that the funny and ironic sculptures by Jean Wells are mosaic art, works of stained glass. The future craftswoman began to master the art of assembling pieces of smalt in childhood.
Jean Wells was born on the Pacific coast to the family of a mosaic artist. Her father at the time was commissioning the Greek Catholic Church in Seattle, and young Jean also began to master the art of mosaic. Having worked with ceramics for several years and tried her hand at painting, Jean Wells recently remembered her old hobby and returned to glass art. But the craftswoman prefers to create not flat images, but a three-dimensional mosaic sculpture. Moreover, she loves to do everything herself, without assistants, whom she also has enough in the studio.
Jean Wells' urban sculpture is amusing both in itself and as the embodiment of mankind's eternal dream of a sweet life and the myth of the cornucopia. The modern tree of knowledge of cola and burgers created by the craftswoman turned out to be quite impressive. The dimensions of Jean Wells' mosaic creation are 5 × 3.5 meters.
The bright tree with mosaic fruits received positive reviews from critics, and the audience liked it. Therefore, it will be "cut down" only in a week.
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