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Arturo Di Modica (January 26, 1941 – February 19, 2021) was an Italian sculptor, widely known for his Charging Bull sculpture. English sculptor Henry Moore nicknamed Di Modica “the young Michelangelo ” [ 1 ] after they met in Italy in the 1960s.
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The sculpture was created by Italian artist Arturo Di Modica in the wake of the 1987 Black Monday stock market crash. Late in the evening of Thursday, December 14, 1989, Di Modica arrived on Wall Street with Charging Bull on the back of a truck and illegally dropped the sculpture outside of the New York Stock Exchange Building .
At 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) tall, 3.3 metres (11 ft) long and 2.5 tonnes (2.7 tons), it is the same size as the Wall Street version, but "redder, younger and stronger" Di Modica said. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The work was supposed to have been completed before the Chinese year of the Ox ended in February 2010. [ 1 ]
Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in California (2 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Outdoor sculptures in California" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
Charging Bull was originally placed illicitly by sculptor Arturo Di Modica on Broad Street, opposite the New York Stock Exchange, in 1989. The city moved the statue to the Bowling Green , where it has remained on an expired temporary permit.
Magic Carpet Ride is the official name of a 6-foot (1.8 m) high bronze sculpture (2007) of a surfer by Matthew Antichevich, an artist and sculpture instructor at Mt. San Jacinto College. [1] The sculpture is mounted on a 6-foot high granite base with poetry inscription by Robert Nanninga, [ 2 ] and is in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Encinitas ...