{"id":4505,"date":"2017-05-11T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T09:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/?p=4505\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T21:06:51","slug":"franklin-d-murphy-sculpture-garden-ucla-university-of-california-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/franklin-d-murphy-sculpture-garden-ucla-university-of-california-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden \u2014 UCLA, University of California, Los&nbsp;Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Matisse\u2019s four backs! Who knew they could be found elsewhere than at the Museum of Modern Art in New York? Yet, here they are, next to one of Serra\u2019s <i>Ellipses<\/i>, at the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, a free public garden located on the campus of UCLA, in California. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I knew about the park, but I had no idea of how rich and diverse it was. More than seventy sculptures, most of them donations from former students, artists or foundations, occupy about 5 acres of landscaped gardens, tucked between buildings of UCLA, where students work, chat, or sunbathe on the surrounding lawns and benches. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Created in 1967 by Franklin D. Murphy, UCLA\u2019s third president, and focused primarily on 20th century art, this sculpture park includes works by some of the greatest artists of modern and contemporary art of the western world \u2013 Rodin, Bourdelle,\u00a0Maillol but also Jean Arp, Henri Laurens, Joan Mir\u00f3, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipschitz, David Smith, George Rickey, Anthony Caro, Alexander Calder, and many more. The collection never ceases to amaze, up to Alberto Burri\u2019s sublime and monumental black ceramic bas-relief, and what\u2019s more, a gift from the artist! What could be more beautiful than what looks like a negative model of the <i>Grande Cretto<\/i>, a piece created by Burri in 1979 in Gibelina (Sicily) to commemorate the 1968 earthquake. This gigantic wall, 50 feet long and 16 feet wide, was assembled on site and is made of 700 elements of fired ceramic from Citt\u00e0 Di Castello (Umbria, Italy), the artist\u2019s native town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/92313882\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Between MacGowan Hall and Bunche Hall, north of the UCLA campus.<br \/>\nOpen daily. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matisse\u2019s four backs! Who knew they could be found elsewhere than at the Museum of Modern Art in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[530,348,251,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4506,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}