A landmark era of stainless steel was the 1970s, after the 1970s, artists began to use stainless steel as a medium in their works, and sculptors around the world began to use stainless steel to make iconic artworks.
Balloon Dog
Balloon Dog is a series of five works by American modernist artist Jeff Koons (blue, magenta, orange, yellow, red) produced between 1994 and 2000.
In April 2008, A yellow balloon dog was on display on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, owned by the hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, and a magenta balloon dog was on display at the Palace of Versailles in Paris. In November 2013, an orange balloon dog sold at Rockefeller Center for $58.4 million, the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist at the time.
Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate (commonly known as "the Bean" because of its appearance) is a public art sculpture designed by the British artist Anish Kapoor, located in the AT&T Plaza of Millennium Park in the Loop district of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Between the Chase Promenade and the McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink, it was constructed between June 2004 and May 2006. The work is 20 meters long, 13 meters wide, 10 meters high, the highest point of the arch is about 4 meters from the ground, and weighs 100 tons. Although the cloud gate is made of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its surface is so smooth that visitors can see the reflected and distorted outline of the city on it, but the seam is completely invisible. In addition, the base of the statue is a concave space that distorts and overlaps the image, called the omphalos (Greek for "center").
The Cloud Gate, which Kapoor said was inspired by liquid mercury, was selected in a design competition, but there were many technical problems with its construction, assembly and maintenance, and some even thought it would be impossible to build. Although a solution was finally proposed after expert consultation, the statue was not completed in the expected time, so it was shown to the public in an unfinished form at the opening of Millennium Park in 2004, and the completed work is now very well-known in the United States and internationally.
Gateway Arch
The Grand Arch is a 630-foot tall (192 m) monument located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Made of stainless steel and built in the form of a load-bearing catenary arch, it is the tallest arch in the world and the tallest accessible building in Missouri. Some sources consider it to be the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States and officially dedicated to "the American people," the Arch, often referred to as the "Gateway to the West," is a national Historic landmark within the Grand Arches National Park that has become an internationally recognized icon of St. Louis, as well as a popular tourist destination.
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