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Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park, Chicago.
The sculpture is shaped like an ellipse, and its legume-like appearance
has caused it to be nicknamed “The Bean”. It is made of 168 highly
polished stainless steel plates, and stands at 33 feet high, 66 feet
long, and 42 feet wide, weighing 110 tons.
From
a distance it could be mistaken for a huge drop of mercury, while up
close its highly reflective surface captures and transforms the skyline,
the downtown cityscape and even the passers-by into a wonderfully
warped new vista. The artist, Anish Kapoor, has referred to the sculpture as “a gate to Chicago, a poetic idea about the city it reflects.” The 12-foot underbelly is called the “omphalos” or navel and multiplies reflections in a vortex.
So New York City has the Statue of Liberty, San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge, but what does Chicago have as it’s most well known and loved landmark? The Bean!
Even
as I was walking around Chicago as a tourist myself, people would often
come up to me and ask me directions to “The Bean”. I had no idea where it was at the time! I had to pull out my map and work it out with them together.
“The Bean”, or more formally known as Cloud Gate is a public sculpture created by a British artist, Anish Kapoor.
Here’s some fast facts about this crazy sculpture: it weighs in at over
110-tons, and is 66 feet long and 33 feet high and first unveiled on
July 16, 2004.
The Bean” is so unique because it has the appearance of a giant drop of liquid mercury, and the mirrored surface offers such an amazingcity’s skyline. It’s absolutely breathtaking on a bright, clear day as the day I was lucky enough to visit.
To get this seamless smooth shiny surface, “The Bean” was created using
a huge number of individual stainless steel plates and many hours of
polishing reflection of the
The great
thing about “The Bean” is that you can get a different shot of it from
every angle. You can wander around and spend hours here trying to get
every shot! I did that for a very long time until I realised that you can even go underneath the bean and it was a whole another world!
I was absolutely stunned by what I saw underneath the bean. Because it was concave under, the reflections was incredible! If you were under the mission of taking every shot at every angle before.. try taking every shot at every angle now!
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