artist gets killed by his art |
artist gets killed by his art |
Jun 27 2006, 10:39 PM
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what do you think it says....if so obvious. Group: Member Posts: 1,838 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 52,420 |
QUOTE Sculptor Luis Jimenez dies in accident at 65 By David A. Belcher New York Times News Service Luis Jimenez, a sculptor whose color-splashed images of swirling dancers, roughneck cowboys in motion and the working class made him a controversial and easily recognized international figure in the art world, died Tuesday at his studio in rural Hondo, N.M. He was 65. Rudy Gutierrez, Associated PressLuis Jimenez The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office in Carrizozo, N.M., said he died in an industrial accident. Jimenez was pronounced dead at the Lincoln County Medical Center in southern New Mexico, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said. He sustained injuries when one of three pieces from a 32-foot-high sculpture being moved from his studio came loose and pinned him against a steel support. The piece, commissioned by Denver International Airport, depicted a giant mustang horse and had been in development for nearly a decade, according to Jim Moore, former director of the Albuquerque Museum. Jimenez's massive fiberglass objects, depicting Hispanic and Native American dancers, cowboys and barrio workers with contorted faces and neon-colored, spray-painted clothing, are displayed prominently in public places and museums across the Southwest and the country. His work has been featured at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., honored Jimenez's sculpture "Man on Fire" in 1979, when it became part of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art. The work, perhaps his best known, depicts a man in flames, and is based on the Aztec emperor Cuauhtimoc, who was burned alive by Spanish conquistadores. A casting of another of his sculptures, "Vaquero," which shows a bronco rider atop a shimmering, metallic-blue horse, sits outside the museum. Jimenez was born in El Paso in 1940. His father owned an electric sign shop, which exposed Luis to spray painting and welding. He moved to New York in 1966, returned to New Mexico in the early 1970s and found success — and controversy — as a sculptor of outdoor objects, which are featured prominently around Albuquerque, including at the University of New Mexico, in the neighborhood Martineztown and in the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Jimenez drew major attention, positive and negative, in 1983, when neighbors in the Old Town district in Albuquerque objected to a sculpture depicting a Native American caressing a dying woman, saying that it resembled a rape. More recently, Jimenez completed a sculpture of firefighters for the city of Cleveland and was putting the finishing touches on the Denver International Airport piece, Moore said. "At the height of Minimalism in the 1960s, he chose to do something out of fashion," Moore said. "His work contributed to the rise of Pop Art, but it was more a willingness to do something so overtly meaningful at first glance." New Mexico's governor, Bill Richardson, ordered flags around the state to be flown at half-staff today and Friday. Rudolfo Anaya, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, said of Jimenez: "The kind of medium he used shocked the art world at first. It was first called outlandish and garish, but it spoke not only to Hispanics but to the world. In the coming years there will be a school of Luis Jimenez art." That Sucks . |
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Jun 27 2006, 10:41 PM
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=] Group: Member Posts: 1,910 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 156,614 |
I can't believe he got killed by his own art.
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Jun 27 2006, 10:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,025 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,051 |
I've seen some of his work before, it's beautiful
That's really sad. |
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Jun 27 2006, 10:42 PM
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J0@nna<3 Group: Member Posts: 203 Joined: Feb 2006 Member No: 378,818 |
Im not guna read that any more. too long.
Poor guy. |
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*Blow_Don't_SUCK* |
Jun 28 2006, 02:03 AM
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Man that's horrible... RIP
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Jun 28 2006, 02:07 AM
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What the fack. Group: Official Member Posts: 6,164 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,519 |
Wow..that's sad.
I wonder if his death will gain his work more attention.. |
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Jun 28 2006, 02:53 PM
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your signal fades away, and all I'm left with is noise. Group: Member Posts: 2,099 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 14,110 |
That's really sad.
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Jun 28 2006, 02:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 246 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 420,832 |
Moment of silence.
Thats sad. |
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Jun 29 2006, 08:34 AM
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i'm susan Group: Official Member Posts: 13,875 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,029 |
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wtf? -_-;; 340-90-dwsdokasopdkapsd)@(#_)@(!_@!@$@. that's.... sad. -_-;;; i didnt know you can die by your own art. my gosh =O goodness gracious -_- |
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*My Cinderella.* |
Jun 29 2006, 11:21 AM
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That's terrible. Rest in peace.
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*ECD & C0* |
Jun 29 2006, 11:23 AM
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QUOTE I can't believe he got killed by his own art. me either its sad RIP |
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*Kathleen* |
Jul 5 2006, 02:59 AM
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Oh the irony.
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Aug 13 2006, 01:37 AM
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Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
i never thought of something like that. it's quite sad.
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Aug 14 2006, 09:21 PM
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All The Girlies Say I'm Pretty Fly For A White Guy Group: Member Posts: 1,944 Joined: May 2006 Member No: 400,858 |
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Aug 15 2006, 04:26 AM
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(′ ・ω・`) Group: Official Designer Posts: 6,179 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 72,477 |
He is so devoted to art he would give up his life for art
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Aug 16 2006, 01:47 AM
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baby, you wouldnt last<3 Group: Member Posts: 948 Joined: May 2006 Member No: 413,445 |
that sucks major!
thats really sad though. RIP |
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Aug 16 2006, 12:27 PM
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define our lives for us. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 11,656 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 43,293 |
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*Kathleen* |
Aug 18 2006, 02:05 PM
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Actually, this kind of reminds me of Dorian Grey. Except.. not.
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