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24-457: The park is named for John Pappajohn , a local venture capitalist, and his wife Mary Louise Pappajohn (1933-2022), who gifted the initial 24 sculptures, with a valuation of about $ 40 million USD, to the city of Des Moines. The couple are recognized art collectors, appearing in the ARTnews list of top 200 art collectors from 1998 to 2014. The first sculptures donated for the park were originally part of

48-609: A brief biography focused on the type of art that they collect (contemporary, post war, modern, etc.) and includes their city or cities of residence, a photo, their source of wealth and the years they have been on the Top 200 list, as many collectors are on it for multiple years. The list released in September 2018 includes Leonard Lauder , Edythe and Eli Broad , Rebecca and Warren Eisenberg, Alison and Peter Klein, Marsha and Jeffrey Perelman , Tatsumi Sako, Sheri and Howard Schultz . The full list

72-461: A business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). Artiste (French) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. The use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews; " author " is generally used instead. The Oxford English Dictionary defines

96-517: A pottery manufacturer will employ craft artists, and book publishers will hire illustrators. In the US, fine artists have a median income of approximately US$ 50,000 per year, and craft artists have a median income of approximately US$ 33,000 per year. This compares to US$ 61,000 for all art-related fields, including related jobs such as graphic designers , multimedia artists , animators , and fashion designers . Many artists work part-time as artists and hold

120-419: Is announced in both the print and online versions of the magazine. Artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art , practicing the arts , or demonstrating an art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business , especially in

144-435: Is long-term repetition and practice. Many fine artists have studied their art form at university, and some have a master's degree in fine arts. Artists may also study on their own or receive on-the-job training from an experienced artist. The number of available jobs as an artist is increasing more slowly than in other fields. About half of US artists are self-employed. Others work in a variety of industries. For example,

168-458: Is released annually and contains the top individual art collectors from around the world based on interviews with collectors, curators, dealers, auction houses, and museums. Those on the list are also surveyed, and their responses are used to inform trends and provide data, such as a breakdown of where the most top art collectors live (the United States). Collectors on the list are profiled with

192-502: The Pappajohns' private collection, and located in their yard. Before they were moved to Western Gateway Park, people used to drive by their home to look at the art. Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas , two New York based architects, designed the landscape with grassy mounds and parabolic-shaped cutaways. These cutouts create walled-in spaces used to display the sculptures in groups of related artistic styles. The Pappajohn sculpture park

216-535: The addition of the sculpture park enhanced the real estate value and drove new investments to the area. At its inauguration in 2009, the sculpture park was an optimistic counterpoint to the Great Recession , and to the destruction across Iowa caused by floods and tornadoes the previous year. In 2011, White ghost by Yoshitomo Nara was installed in the park, after being exhibited in New York, as public art placed near

240-491: The city of Antibes Juan-les-Pins ordered a similar work by Plensa to be installed there permanently. The sculpture is a 6-short-ton (5.4 t), 27-foot-tall (8.2 m) crouching human shape made of a lattice of white painted steel letters. The sculpture is hollow and visitors can walk inside to look through the spaces between the letters. This work exemplifies Plensa's exploration of communication issues between individuals or cultures, as well as his interest in literature and

264-676: The entrances to the Asia Society and the Park Avenue Armory . The Des Moines Art Center was the 2017 recipient of the Art Conservation Project grant from Bank of America , given for the restoration of Keith Haring 's Untitled (Three Dancing Figures, version C) . The sculpture was structurally sound, but the paint coating had deteriorated from years of outdoor public display. In 2018, Pumpkin Large by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama

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288-455: The human body. The letters do not form meaningful words, but rather express the symbolic essence of language. In a Des Moines Register poll about 75 percent of the people surveyed chose Nomade as the piece they most connected with. ARTnews ARTnews is an American art magazine , based in New York City . It covers visual arts from ancient to contemporary times. It is

312-454: The magazine was published as American Art News . From February 1923 to the present, the magazine has been published as The Art News then ARTnews . The magazine's art critics and correspondents include Arthur Danto , Linda Yablonsky, Barbara Pollock, Margarett Loke, Hilarie Sheets, Yale School of Art dean Robert Storr , Doug McClemont and Museum of Modern Art director Glenn D. Lowry . In April 2014, Milton and Judith Esterow,

336-585: The magazine's owners since 1972, sold the publication to Skate Capital Corp., a private asset-management firm owned by Sergey Skaterschikov. It was later revealed that Skate Capital was acting on behalf of the Polish company Abbey House, which renamed itself ARTNEWS SA. Following this change in ownership the magazine merged with Art in America in June 2015, owned by Brant Publication's BMP Media Holdings, LLC. In October 2015

360-428: The meaning was something resembling craftsman , while the word artisan was still unknown. An artist was someone able to do a work better than others, so the skilled excellency was underlined, rather than the activity field. In this period, some "artisanal" products (such as textiles ) were much more precious and expensive than paintings or sculptures. The first division into major and minor arts dates back at least to

384-401: The older, broader meanings of the word "artist": The Greek word techně , often translated as "art", implies mastery of any sort of craft. The adjectival Latin form of the word, technicus , became the source of the English words technique , technology, and technical . In Greek culture, each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation: No muse was identified with

408-479: The oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. ARTnews has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors. The magazine was founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as Hydes Weekly Art News and was originally published eleven times a year. From vol. 3, no. 52 (November 5, 1904) to vol. 21, no. 18 (February 10, 1923),

432-751: The publishing cadence of ARTnews was reduced to quarterly. In 2016, Brant Publications took full control of BMP. In 2018, Penske Media Corporation , the parent company of Variety Magazine, acquired ARTnews and Art in America . The magazine has won the George Polk Award , the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the National Headliner Award and the National Arts Club Distinguished Citation for Merit. The ARTnews Top 200 list

456-577: The same way, the features constituting beauty and the beautiful cannot be standardized easily without moving into kitsch . The US Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies many visual artists as either craft artists or fine artists . A craft artist makes handmade functional works of art, such as pottery or clothing . A fine artist makes paintings, illustrations (such as book illustrations or medical illustrations ), sculptures, or similar artistic works primarily for their aesthetic value. The main source of skill for both craft artists and fine artists

480-565: The visual arts of painting and sculpture . In ancient Greece, sculptors and painters were held in low regard, the work often performed by slaves and mostly regarded as mere manual labour. The word art derives from the Latin " ars " (stem art- ), which, although literally defined means "skill method" or "technique", also conveys a connotation of beauty. During the Middle Ages the word artist already existed in some countries such as Italy, but

504-562: The works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): De re aedificatoria , De statua , De pictura , which focused on the importance of the intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills (even if in other forms of art there was a project behind). With the academies in Europe (second half of 16th century) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set. Many contemporary definitions of "artist" and "art" are highly contingent on culture, resisting aesthetic prescription; in

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528-480: Was installed in the park. The bronze pumpkin is about 8 feet high, including a 3-foot pedestal. The surface has a pattern of recessed dots of different sizes, going all the way up to the stem. According to Jeff Fleming, director of the Des Moines Art Center, the piece is a “definitive work by one of the most important contemporary artists working today”. A version of Robert Indiana 's iconic LOVE sculpture

552-612: Was placed in the park in 2019. Currently there are 28 sculptures in the park: One of the most arresting and iconic pieces in the Pappajohn Sculpture Park is Nomade by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, which dominates the landscape over Locust Street. The sculpture was originally exhibited in 2007, in the then newly restored Saint-Jaume bastion, in Antibes . Subsequently, the sculpture was acquired by Mary and John Pappajohn in Miami, while

576-478: Was the capstone of the broad redevelopment project that revitalized downtown Des Moines . In the early 2000s, the west end of downtown Des Moines was in a dilapidated state, with auto repair shops, seedy businesses, and worn out and vacant buildings. The city decided to remediate the situation and created Western Gateway park from 10th to 15th street, demolishing derelict buildings and moving a historic apartment complex to another site. Development of Western Gateway and

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