Today’s Photo Friday theme is The Face, so here’s an extreme closeup of one of Antonio López García’s larger-than-life bronze baby heads, more formally known as “Day and Night.” Beside this sculpture’s angelic sleeping expression, I love the tints of green reflecting from the surrounding lawn: a tinge of summer adding color to a bronze baby’s brow.
I first blogged these paired heads in May of 2008, when they were installed outside the Huntington Avenue entrance to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts; they’ve since moved to the museum’s Fenway entrance, on the opposite side of the building. In either location, these big babies are attention-grabbing and seem both playful and a bit ominous. Given how enormous the job of parenthood already is, can you image trying to raise a pair of kids with heads this huge?
Click here for more pictures of Antonio López García’s “Day and Night,” or click here for images from the sculpture’s previous installation site. Enjoy!
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Sep 25, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I love this extreme closeup — and your take on what it’s like to parent kids with huge heads!
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Sep 25, 2009 at 3:02 pm
That’s a great photo.
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Sep 25, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Oh, I’m glad they’re still there! I thought they were gone when they were no longer in front of the Huntington St entrance. I love that close-up!
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Sep 26, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Yes, I think I like them better on the Fenway side: it’s quieter, so they seem even more odd. They also don’t have to compete with the equestrian statue along Huntington Street, so they have the Fenway entrance pretty much to themselves.
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Sep 29, 2009 at 9:35 am
Fascinating photography, Lorianne. I read somewhere recently an interview with an artist whose name escapes me at the moment about photos of people with closed eyes. He said he felt it showed a piece of their inner selves.
T.
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