{"id":85,"date":"2006-09-12T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/2006\/09\/12\/picasso-sculpture\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T02:04:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T06:04:27","slug":"picasso-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/2006\/09\/12\/picasso-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/2006\/09\/12\/picasso-sculpture\/238262930_ff4d248d50_b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1287\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/238262930_ff4d248d50_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Picasso Sculpture\" width=\"680\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/238262930_ff4d248d50_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/238262930_ff4d248d50_b-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a sculpture that Pablo Picasso created for the city of Chicago. This statue has no name. It can be found in Chicago&#8217;s Daley Plaza.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/2006\/09\/12\/picasso-sculpture\/238262300_5b66e31957_b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2657\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/238262300_5b66e31957_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chicago Picasso Sculpture\" width=\"680\" height=\"513\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2657\" \/><\/a><\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>The Chicago Picasso, an unpainted, three-dimensional, cubist sculpture standing 50 feet tall and weighing 162 tons, is made of Corrosive Tensile (&#8220;Cor-Ten&#8221;) steel, the same material used to build the Daley Center. Originally rust colored, the sculpture now has a darkish gray patina that nicely matches the one on the Daley Center building behind it.No doubt the most famous of Chicago&#8217;s many outdoor sculptures, the Chicago Picasso was unveiled in the Civic Center Plaza (as the Daley Plaza was then known), on August 15, 1967.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>Greeted at first with much scorn and ridicule, the Chicago Picasso nonetheless marked the beginning of Chicago&#8217;s love affair with contemporary art, a love affair that would help turn downtown Chicago into a veritable open-air sculpture gallery, with some one hundred artworks spread all around the Loop for Chicagoans (and tourists) to enjoy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"1aeb297f1c3f3c86425d785a1988474d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<br\/>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* BreathofLife_300x250_underpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7952806381\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br\/>\r\n<br\/>\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\nch_fluidH = 1;\r\nch_nump = \"4\";\r\nch_client = \"dragonden\";\r\nch_width = 550;\r\nch_height = \"auto\";\r\nch_type = \"mpu\";\r\nch_sid = \"photo_betweenposts2\";\r\nch_color_site_link = \"ff7256\";\r\nch_color_title = \"ff7256\";\r\nch_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\nch_color_text = \"333333\";\r\nch_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"http:\/\/scripts.chitika.net\/eminimalls\/amm.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<br\/>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chicago Picasso\" alt=\"Chicago Picasso\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/79\/238262930_ff4d248d50_s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1631,233,194,234,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-85","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-chicago","7":"tag-chicago","8":"tag-daley-plaza","9":"tag-downtown","10":"tag-picasso","11":"tag-unnamed","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}