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Park
In Barcelona in pain, there's a
big sculptu re by a Spanish artist
called Joan Mira. The sculpture
is in a park, and it's called
Woman and Bird. Joan Mira
started with the idea of a woman
and a bird, then he played with
different shapes and colors. He
loved bright, sunny colors, like
red and yellow. He used them
in many of his paintings and
sculptures. For Woman and Bird,
he used thousands of bright,
colored tiles.
Joan Mira was 89 years old when
he made this sculpture. He's very
famous in Spain. His art is in
museums all around the world.
A Par ?
In 1995 two artists wrapped a building! Christo
and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the parliament building
in Berlin, the capital of Germany. They used more
than 100,000 square meters of fabric, and more
than 15 kilometers of rope. The building looked like
a big parcel.
The wrapping only stayed on the building for about
two weeks. In that time, thousands of people came
to see the building and took photos. They knew the
building well, but they saw it in a new way.
Art shows our world in a diffe rent way. W hen we look
at our world in art, we can learn something new.
Go to pages 50- 51 for activities.