Cap de Barcelona - Barcelona Heat (1992)
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Location: Paseo de Colon s / n - Metro Station: Barceloneta
(Make click on photo to enlarge) Roy Lichtenstein (U.S. 1923 -1997) is without doubt one of the best known artists in contemporary art . His fame came thanks to inspired work comic vignettes that have become over time powerful pop icons art to match other geniuses like Andy Warhol .
Lichtenstein collaborated in upgrading the image of Barcelona , was in sparkling year 92 in which the city became the center of the world, when s and inaugurated a large sculpture called his " Cap de Barcelona" Barcelona head. In front of the Post Office building, at the beginning of the Paseo de Colon, one of the areas that suffered more changes during the Olympics.
or Cap Heat (the name given in the very Lichtenstein Foundation ) simulates the head of a girl and measures 20 meters 6 wide and this check ceramic and brightly colored homigón even get to hold some mosaic trencadis "so typical of modernism from Barcelona.
This sculpture also served as a municipal campaign image called "Barcelona, \u200b\u200bposa't beautiful! " "Barcelona, \u200b\u200b pretty please!" since 1986 is responsible for subsidizing rehabilitation of buildings damaged .
Olympic fever When finished, also fell the popularity of this work , Which in truth, despite their prominence is not among the favorites of the citizens or visitors to the city, maybe more by ignorance than anything else. And its location - near a road junction and a section that is a passing-it is not ideal.
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