Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other American sculptors, like Richard Serra: neither earthwork nor freestanding construction, but midway between the two-steel plates embedded into planes and strips of earth. The first of these immense environmental pieces was her 280-ft. Land Canal and Hillside built in Dallas in 1971: a string of triangular steel forms down the dividing strip of a highway, rising and falling and tilting, meant to be seen as a changing sculpture from the windows of swiftly passing cars. The largest-not yet built-is a 1½ acre project for Bedminster, N.J.: a low, subtly broken plane cutting across...
Pepper's sculpture, though abstract, is not radically so. The strongest influence on her work has been the late David Smith. Just as Smith's work tended to keep the imprint of the human figure, vertical and gesturing, so the triangular shapes to which Pepper obsessively returns allude to architecture: pyramids and tents. The very shape of a pyramid comes drenched in an imagery of age, endurance, "primitive" solemnity. Being historical animals, we can no more see a pyramid as a perfectly abstract form than we can look at a cross without thinking of crucifixions...
...ribbed and sharply folding tentlike shapes of orange steel, is arguably one of the most successful pieces of monumental sculpture produced by an American in the past decade. No photograph can convey the peculiar intricacy of space that it develops from what seems a simple formula of two skewed triangular prisms, one inside the other...
...name suggests, the look is fashioned around the triangle, with its base at the shoulders and its apex at the waist. The triangular theme is emphasized by the skillful use of angular seams-accented in some models by piping and also reflected in the lapels and jacket points, even in the buttons. The trousers, in contrasting or complementary colors if the customer wishes, can be flared at the cuff. The double-or single-vented jacket, with its absence of external pockets and flaps, gives the wearer a slim, dashing look that would certainly be approved by Bond but never...
Radcliffe's young track team finished its first season of competition on a promising note this weekend, placing third behind two powerful squads from Cortland State and Springfield College in a triangular meet at Springfield...