We just learned about the sculpture of Students Aspire by Elizabeth Catlett.
Another famous American sculpture is Bearing Witness by Martin Puryear made in 1998 in Washington D.C.
This sulpture is 40 feet tall and weighs 20,000 pounds.
It is made out of sheets of bronze metal, wrapped on a steel sculpture underneath to hold it up.
Puryear was famous for sculpting abstract art.
He liked to use big shapes and simple things like metal to make sculptures taht could really stand out.
He grew up in Washington D.C, went to college for art, and then went into the peace Corps and traveled to Sierra Leone and Sweden where he learned some other kinds of art.
(from: wikipedia - martin puryear)
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