888 246 red handmade poppies
is the best and most touching monumental and
memorial work I have ever known. Each of the 888 246 ceramic poppies glazed in
red, made and symbolically planted, the last one on 11th November
2014 is a tribute to every life lost by the British or colonial forces in the
First World War and has been created to mark 100 years since the day Britain
went to war with Germany in 1914.
The artistic minds behind this installation commemorating 100
years since the start of World War I are ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage
designer Tom Piper. Cummins specializes in ceramic flowers, which he makes by shaping on a wheel and then carving by hand. The
installation's name, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, also comes from Cummins. He, in turn, borrowed
it from will of an anonymous man who died in Flanders. 'The blood-swept lands and seas
of red, where angels fear to tread.'
Contribution: The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and Prince Harry officially unveil Paul Cummins' Blood Swept Lands
And Seas Of Red, and planted their own poppies
Tribute to the brave dead: The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and Prince Harry wander through the wonderful ceramic poppy field
planted at the Tower of London
I have
heard that the specialty Monumental Arts
at the Academy is closed and the professional experience acquired for thousands
of years is not taught any more. I am not willing to verify that - as far as I am
watching the new monuments and monumental works for the last years ….it should
be true. Not to mention then the contemporary reading of open-air sculpture and
plastics arts…
Do not
worry – the train has not stopped.
It is just
that some have simply remained on a faraway station.
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