Museum of Outdoor Arts
Greenwood Village, Colorado
MOA is an outdoor museum. It has an outdoor art collection of nearly 100 pieces of art, ranging from sculpture to murals. We also host a variety of art events.
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Artist: Magdalena Abakanowicz (Polish, 1930-2017)
Revered by artists and art critics for her uncompromising, individualistic vision, Abakanowicz's sculpture is known and loved around the world. Born in 1930 to and aristocratic Polish family, she experienced firsthand the repressive Communist regime in power for most of her adult life. From the horrors of the Warsaw uprising in 1944 to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, she witnessed the worst of humanity's instinct for destruction and created art that unflinchingly portrays the human condition. Always alert to using familiar materials in unforeseen ways, her art developed from early room-filling fiber creations called Abakans to burlap and resin groupings evoking provocative cultural and political associations to her later monolithic sculptures in bronze, stone, wood , and iron. Winner of many international honors and awards, she created her powerful sculptures as unique pieces, rarely repeated.
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