{"id":559,"date":"2017-02-09T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/?p=559"},"modified":"2017-04-06T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:15:53","slug":"muam-sculpture-park-welcomes-hatched-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/art-museum\/2017\/02\/muam-sculpture-park-welcomes-hatched-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"MUAM Sculpture Park Welcomes “Hatched Baby” on Temporary Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bridget Garnai,\u00a0Arts Management Intern<\/em><\/p>\n

In January 2017, the much-anticipated <\/span>Hatched Baby <\/span><\/i>by Wolfgang Auer was installed in the Miami University Art Museum (MUAM) Sculpture Park. The fiberglass and resin sculpture is on temporary loan from German artist Auer and recently spent a year on display at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts <\/a>in Hamilton, Ohio. Now the \u201cBlue Baby,\u201d as it became known in Hamilton, has come to college!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wolfgang Auer’s “Hatched Baby” in place at the Miami University Art Museum. Photo by Scott Kissell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yves Klein
Blue Monochrome
1961
Dry pigment in synthetic polymer medium on cotton over plywood
The Museum of Modern Art 618.1967<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To find out more about Auer\u2019s art, visit his website<\/a> and read our first blog post<\/a> about <\/span>Hatched Baby. <\/span><\/i>In addition to the size and monumentality of the piece, which was inspired by the anxieties of becoming a new parent, the color blue has some interesting connections with art history. Blue can have connotations of both serenity and sadness and artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso to Yves Klein have used the color in unique ways. Throughout history, the Virgin Mary in Christian art has often been depicted in blue robes. Picasso had his famous \u201cBlue Period\u201d as he worked through the death of his friend. Yves Klein developed a highly pigmented blue paint for his monochrome paintings known as \u201cInternational Klein Blue\u201d<\/a>. Whatever Auer\u2019s motivation might be for using this striking color, it is undeniably eye-catching and invites the viewer to think about some of the other associations that Auer\u2019s work inspires.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stop by the Miami University Art Museum to see this exciting piece of sculpture! If you take a picture be sure to share it with #BlueBabyMiamiOH. A special thanks to <\/span>the <\/span>Fitton Center for Creative Arts<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park<\/span><\/a>, and the <\/span>City of Sculpture <\/span><\/a>project for collaborating on the transfer of Wolfgang Auer\u2019s piece to our museum! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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