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The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago is world renowned for its collection of paintings and sculptures. Although there is a fee to enter, there is a whole lot of art in the outskirts with free access to anyone.

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The Art Institute of Chicago

 

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AIC Gardens

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Architecture & Friezes on the façade

The Art Institute of Chicago, is a Beaux-Arts structure, built in 1893, as part of World’s Columbian Exposition. It was the only building at the Exposition outside of the fairgrounds. Like many museums of the day, and many structures designed for the World’s Columbian Exposition, the Art Institute was traditional in character, inspired by the architectural conventions of the Renaissance, as taught in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris..

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Bucrania

These are called Bucranium, pural is bucrania..which is Greek for “the skull of an ox”.

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The Art Institute of Chicago

The Lions – by Edward Kemeys click here..

Fountain of the Great Lakes – by Lorado Taft.. click here..

Large Interior Form – by Henry Moore.. click here..

Cubi VII – by David Smith.. click here..

Flying Dragon – by Alexander Calder.. click here..

Untitled – by Ulrich Ruckriem click here..

White Curve – by Ellsworth Kelly.. click here..

Noguchi Fountain – by Isamu Noguchi.. click here..

Fountain of the Tritons – by Carl Milles.. click here..

The Nichols Bridgeway – by Renzo Piano.. click here..

Modern Wing – by Renzo Piano.. click here..

Swami Vivekanand Way .. click here..

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South Garden – by Landscape Architect Dan Kiley.. click here..

North Garden – by Laurie Olin.. click here..

Margot and Thomas Pritzker Garden.. click here..

McKinlock Court – click here..

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Original Chicago Stock Exchange entrance arch – by Louis Sullivan.. click here..

Original Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room .. click here..

Architecture & Friezes on the façade .. click here..
Planters with Bucrania .. click here..

 

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RELATED LINKS

Chicago Downtown and Loop have very high concentration of Public Art.
As such I am dividing the coverage under various posts:

The Loop

Millennium Park.. click here..

Grant Park.. click here..

Art Institute of Chicago.. click here..

Museum Campus & Soldier Field.. click here..

Chicago River: South Bank.. click here..

Chicago River: North Bank.. click here..

Pioneer Court..click here..

River North and Streeterville.. click here..

Public Art by Location.. click here..

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