TOP 10. Best Monuments and Statues in Chicago - Travel Illinois
TOP 10. Best Monuments and Statues in Chicago - Travel Illinois: Cloud Gate, Picasso Statue, Flamingo Sculpture, Miro's Chicago, Elks Veterans Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Fountain, Monument with Standing Beast, Gen. John Logan Memorial, Heald Square Monument, Union Stockyard Gate
Alexander Calder's Statue Flamingo (1973) - 360°
Flamingo, created by noted American artist Alexander Calder, is a 53-foot (16 m) tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
It was commissioned by the United States General Services Administration and was unveiled in 1974, although Calder's signature on the sculpture indicates it was constructed in 1973.
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FLAMINGO
Flamingo, created by noted American artist Alexander Calder, is a 53 foot (16 m) tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois. It was commissioned by the United States General Services Administration and was unveiled in 1974, although Calder's signature on the sculpture indicates it was constructed in 1973.
Flamingo weighs 50 tons, is composed of steel, and is vermilion in color. Calder gave the stabile its color, which has come to be called Calder red, to offset it from the black and steel surroundings of nearby office buildings, including the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Kluczynski Federal Building. The stabile is an art form which Calder pioneered. It is an abstract structure that is completely stationary, as opposed to a mobile, which can move with air currents. Despite the large size of the sculpture, its design is such that viewers can walk underneath and around it, thus enabling one to perceive it in human scale. The shape of Flamingo alludes to the natural and
animal realm, which is a stark contrast to more literal interpretations in sculpture from previous decades.
Flamingo, then, serves as the inspiration for this chamber work, comprised of five micro-movements, each describing the sculpture from a different view. Structurally, movements I and III and movements II and IV are related. They share tempos, meters and some musical materials. Some of the phrases from movement IV, for example (The View from Below) are a mirror inversion of the same phrases from movement II (The View from Above). The final movement evokes the sculpture from the distant view of the Willis Tower Skydeck—through its own music and through phrases borrowed from the other movements. The work is intended, in six concise minutes, to provide a sonic portrait of the sublime and elegant stabile—a sculptural masterwork which captures both the natural world and the arching reach of a modern urban landscape.
-Geoffrey Gordon
I. The View from Dearborn Street
(Flute, Bb Clarinet, Cello and Piano)
II. The View from Above
(Flute, Bb Clarinet, Cello)
III. The View from Adams Street
(Flute, Bb Clarinet, Piano)
IV. The View from Below
(Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Cello)
V. The View from the Willis Tower Skydeck
(Piccolo, Bb Clarinet, Piano)
This is a performance by the Boston-based Xanthos Ensemble, for whom Geoffrey Gordon is composer in residence.
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Powered by - Chicago is famous for its outdoor public art with donors establishing funding for such art as far back as Benjamin Ferguson's 1905 trust. A number of Chicago's public art works are non-statuary and by famous artists. Among these are Chagall's Four Seasons; the Chicago Picasso; Miro's Chicago; Calder's Flamingo; Oldenburg's Batcolumn; Moore's Large Interior Form, 1953-54, Man Enters the Cosmos and Nuclear Energy; Dubuffet's Monument with Standing Beast, Abakanowicz's Agora; and, Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate which has become an icon of the city. Some events which shaped the city's history have also been memorialized by art works, including the Great Northern Migration (Saar) and the centennial of statehood for Illinois. Finally, two fountains near the Loop also function as monumental works of art: Plensa's Crown Fountain and Burnham and Bennett's Buckingham Fountain.
More representational (statuary) public art includes a number of works by Lorado Taft (Fountain of Time, The Crusader, Eternal Silence, and the Heald Square Monument completed by Crunelle), French's Statue of the Republic, Edward Kemys's Lions, Saint-Gaudens's Abraham Lincoln: The Man (aka Standing Lincoln) and Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State (aka Seated Lincoln), Brioschi's Christopher Columbus, Meštrović's The Bowman and The Spearman, Dallin's Signal of Peace, Fairbanks's The Chicago Lincoln, Boyle's The Alarm, Polasek's memorial to Masaryk, memorials along Solidarity Promenade to Kościuszko, Havliček and Copernicus by Chodzinski, Strachovský, and Thorvaldsen, a memorial to General Logan by Saint-Gaudens, and Kearney's Moose (W-02-03). A number of statues also honor recent local heroes such as Michael Jordan (by Amrany and Rotblatt-Amrany), Stan Mikita, and Bobby Hull outside of the United Center; Harry Caray (by Amrany and Cella) outside Wrigley field, Jack Brickhouse (by McKenna) next to the WGN studios, and Irv Kupcinet at the Wabash Avenue Bridge.
There are preliminary plans to erect a 1:1‑scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau statue of Frédéric Chopin found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's birth.
Source: wikipedia.org
Agora in Grant Park Chicago
Agora is a art piece crafted by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. The work comprises 106 headless and armless cast iron figures. Each is over 9 feet tall and weighs nearly eleven hundred pounds. The figures sit at the south end of Grant Park, near the corner of Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue. They remind me of the bottoms of the Easter Island figures. The sculpture is among a number of public art pieces by major 20th Century artist that adorn downtown Chicago. How appropriate for a place known as the city of builders.
Michigan Ave. in Chicago
Walking around Michigan Ave. allows you to see some amazing sites including Grant Wood's American Gothic, the Chicago Times building, the Moose sculpture by John Kearney, legendary Chicago commentator Jack Brickhouse's monument as well as many others not seen in this video.
* I originally uploaded this video with U2's City Of Blinding Lights as background music which really works well with the video, but unfortunitely Youtube deemed the usage unallowable and stripped the video all all audio in true youtube fashion. I'll work on finding a solution to this problem, but in the meantime...ENJOY CHICAGO!!!!
Chicago Walk: The Loop and Grant Park
A walk through Chicago's Loop and Grant Park view views of some of the city's iconic landmarks
Progress Illinois: Federal Employees Protest Government Shutdown At Chicago's Federal Plaza
Chicago federal employees took their fight against a government shutdown to Federal Plaza Monday afternoon.
Chicago - Walking Along Lake Shore Drive (May 7, 2016)
Produced and directed by Chris Krzentz on May 7, 2016
We saw SO many animals! | Brookfield Zoo Vlog
We saw SO many animals! | Brookfield Zoo Vlog
Welcome to my very first vlog(can you tell?)! This was the first time Mickala and myself have been to Brookfield Zoo in over a decade! We had so much fun and cannot wait to get back out to the zoo as soon as we can!
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Brookfield Zoo, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park,[2][3] is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois. It houses around 450 species of animals in an area of 216 acres (87 ha). It opened on July 1, 1934,[4] and quickly gained international recognition for using moats and ditches instead of cages to separate animals from visitors and from other animals. The zoo was also the first in America to exhibit giant pandas, one of which (Su Lin[5]) has been taxidermied and put on display in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. In 1960, Brookfield Zoo built the nation's first fully indoor dolphin exhibit, and in the 1980s, the zoo introduced Tropic World, the first fully indoor rain forest simulation and the then-largest indoor zoo exhibit in the world.
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CHICAGO GUIDE. THE WINDY CITY | TOP 30 #mustdo #mustsee | WORK&TRAVEL VLOG 2018 GOPRO
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Chicago is probably a top 3 favourite cities when it comes to my taste. The architecture of this city is incredible, that’s why the best thing you can do here is to take the architecture cruise tour along the Chicago river and learn about these impressive buildings or about the history of Chicago and the fire that took place in 1871. Also you have to save a few hours and just walk along the Chicago riverwalk, as it is so impressive and relaxing, you have to stop at some point and just enjoy a cup of coffee here.
Also the observatories in Chicago are some of the most spectacular in the whole world, you have to try the Chicago skydeck and also the Tilt experience.
Giordano’s pizza is probably the best I ever had, two slices is enough for a good meal.
Grant or Millennium park are also a beautiful way to spend your day.
The financial district makes you feel like you’re in one of those Spiderman movies.
The Navy pier is a entertainment area so you can find a lot of things to do there.
At the intersection of Adams & Wabash streets you can see where it used to be the famous Route 66’s starting point.
You can do a lot of shopping and feel the vibe of this amazing city on the Michigan and on the Magnificent mile streets.
All in all Chicago is a great destination, and it’s a #mustdo when it comes to #bucketlists.
LOCATIONS & LINKS:
1. Willis tower, Skydeck Chicago.
LINK: theskydeck.com
#mustdo
#mustsee
2. Chicago riverwalk.
LINK: chicagoriverwalk.us
#mustdo
#mustsee
3. Dusable bridge.
#mustsee
4. Trump tower.
LINK: trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/chicago,il/trump-tower/
#mustsee
5. Cloud gate “the bean monument”. Millennium park.
LINK: millenniumparkfoundation.org/places/cloud-gate/
#mustdo
#mustsee
6. Grant park.
LINK: hicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/grant-park
#mustdo
#mustsee
7. Cancer survivor’s garden.
LINK: maggiedaleypark.com/things-to-do-see/cancer-survivors-garden/
#mustsee
8. Buckingham fountain.
#mustsee
9. The loop. Financial district.
LINK: cpgchicago.com/the-loop
#mustdo
#mustsee
10. Chicago theater.
LINK: chicago-theater.com
#mustdo
#mustsee
11. Aqua building.
LINK: rentaqua.com
#mustsee
12. New East Side neighborhood.
#mustsee
13. Dusable harbor.
LINK: chicagoharbors.info/harbors/dusable/
#mustsee
14. Navy pier.
LINK: navypier.org
#mustdo
#mustsee
15. Lakefront trail.
#mustdo
#mustsee
16. Giordano’s pizzeria.
LINK: giordanos.com
#mustdo
17. United center.
LINK: unitedcenter.com
#mustsee
18. Federal plaza. Flamingo sculpture.
LINK: loopchicago.com/go/federal-plaza
#mustsee
19. Wrigley building & Tribune tower.
LINK: thewrigleybuilding.com
#mustsee
20. The loop (CTA) elevated railroad.
LINK: transitchicago.com/maps/
#mustdo
#mustsee
21. Adams & Wabash, route 66 starting point.
#mustsee
22. N state street./ Marina towers.
LINK: marinacity.org
#mustsee
23. Bataan-Corregidor memorial bridge.
LINK: historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=truss/statest/
#mustsee
24. Michigan avenue.
#mustdo
#mustsee
25. The tilt experience. 360 Chicago observatory.
LINK: 360chicago.com/tilt/
#mustdo
#mustsee
26. Harold Washington library.
LINK: chipublib.org
#mustsee
27. Chicago river architecture cruise.
LINK: shorelinesightseeing.com
#mustdo
#mustsee
28. Wacker drive.
#mustsee
29. Lake point tower. Cite restaurant.
LINK: lakepointtower.org/home.asp
citechicago.com
#mustdo
#mustsee
30. The magnificent mile.
LINK: themagnificentmile.com
#mustdo
#mustsee
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25 best places to visit in the usa | USA travel | 25 Beautiful Places In The United States
25 best places to visit in the usa | USA travel | 25 Beautiful Places In The United States
In this video I'm telling you 25 best Places to visit in the usa. With the Statue of Liberty as a national icon, the United States is widely known as the Land of Liberty. For the past few centuries, people from all over the world have come to the US, drawn by the nation’s prosperity and democracy, seeking a better way of life. As a result, this vast nation is also a land of diversity from its landscapes to its culture, cuisine, politics and religion. An overview of the best places to visit in the USA
1.Denver
2.Atlanta
3.Houston
4.Portland
5.San Antonio
6.Savannah
7.Philadelphia
8.Sedona
9.San Diego
10.Denali National Park
11.New Orleans
12.Niagara Falls
13.Boston
14.Miami
15.Seattle
16.Honolulu
17.Orlando
18.Washington DC
19.Los Angeles
20.Chicago
21.Yellowstone
22.Las Vegas
23.San Francisco
24.Grand Canyon
25.New York City
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Design Toscano's Komodo Dragon Statue at the Brookfield Zoo!!
Design Toscano's Komodo Dragon Statue (and more) Now Showing at the Dinos & Dragons exhibit ???? Visit Brookfield Zoo Now through September 17th!!
Chicago Food Truck Festival | Wikipedia audio article
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Chicago Food Truck Festival
00:03:54 1 Etymology and nicknames
00:05:01 2 History
00:05:10 2.1 Beginnings
00:06:19 2.2 Founding and 19th century
00:13:47 2.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:13:57 2.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:17:45 2.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:21:18 2.3.3 1980 to present
00:23:05 3 Geography
00:23:14 3.1 Topography
00:26:22 3.2 Communities
00:27:16 3.3 Streetscape
00:28:55 3.4 Architecture
00:31:25 3.5 Monuments and public art
00:33:53 3.6 Climate
00:36:27 4 Demographics
00:42:24 4.1 Religion
00:43:20 5 Economy
00:49:24 6 Culture and contemporary life
00:53:46 6.1 Entertainment and the arts
00:58:02 6.2 Festivals
00:59:02 6.3 Tourism
01:03:40 6.4 Cuisine
01:05:53 6.5 Literature
01:08:12 7 Sports
01:13:39 8 Parks and greenspace
01:16:11 9 Law and government
01:16:20 9.1 Government
01:17:33 9.2 Politics
01:20:30 9.3 Crime
01:25:21 9.4 Employee pensions
01:26:07 10 Education
01:26:16 10.1 Schools and libraries
01:29:35 10.2 Colleges and universities
01:31:29 11 Media
01:31:38 11.1 Television
01:33:14 11.2 Newspapers
01:34:09 11.3 Movies and Filming
01:35:32 11.4 Radio
01:36:15 11.5 Video Games
01:36:43 12 Infrastructure
01:36:52 12.1 Transportation
01:37:40 12.1.1 Expressways
01:38:28 12.1.2 Transit systems
01:40:15 12.1.3 Passenger rail
01:41:01 12.1.4 Bicycle-sharing system
01:41:44 12.1.5 Freight rail
01:42:41 12.1.6 Airports
01:43:43 12.1.7 Port authority
01:45:07 12.2 Utilities
01:46:26 12.3 Health systems
01:48:29 13 Sister cities
01:49:29 14 See also
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Chicago ( (listen), locally also ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as Chicagoland. The Chicago metropolitan area has nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was one of the five largest cities in the world. During this period, Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.Chicago is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It was the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is the one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. Chicago has the fourth-largest gross metropolitan product in the world—generating about $670.5 billion according to September 2017 estimates—ranking it after the metropolitan areas of Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, and ranking ahead of number five London and number six ...
Beginner Oil Painting Art Supplies LIVE: What Art Supplies You Need to Begin Painting in Oil Colors
Thinking about trying oil painting? Not sure what art supplies you will need? Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio! Dena shows you examples of the different products available for oil painting and what art supplies you will need to get started painting in oil.
Topics include paint: water mincible/water mixable vs traditional, and what 5 colors you must have to paint, brushes: bristle vs synthetic, rounds, flats, liners, and filberts. Palette knives. Canvas: cotton canvas vs linen canvas, gesso, panels, rolls, and prestretched canvas. Retouch varnish, final coat varnish, linseed oil, walnut oil, and oil mediums for glazing. How to mix colors and how to hang wire for framing are discussed. This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
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Here is the link to the Painting Stoof mentioned in the video, she did a great tutorial on how to stretch a canvas
My technique can be done in either oil paint and acrylic paint.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
Chicago - Oak Street Beach (May 30, 2016)
Filmed in Chicago by Chris Krzentz on May 30, 2016. If you like the videos, feel free to subscribe to the Chris Krzentz global youtube channel.
Chicago | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:54 1 Etymology and nicknames
00:05:01 2 History
00:05:10 2.1 Beginnings
00:06:19 2.2 Founding and 19th century
00:13:47 2.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:13:57 2.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:17:45 2.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:21:18 2.3.3 1980 to present
00:23:05 3 Geography
00:23:14 3.1 Topography
00:26:22 3.2 Communities
00:27:16 3.3 Streetscape
00:28:56 3.4 Architecture
00:31:25 3.5 Monuments and public art
00:33:53 3.6 Climate
00:36:29 4 Demographics
00:42:26 4.1 Religion
00:43:22 5 Economy
00:49:26 6 Culture and contemporary life
00:53:48 6.1 Entertainment and the arts
00:58:04 6.2 Festivals
00:59:05 6.3 Tourism
01:03:42 6.4 Cuisine
01:05:55 6.5 Literature
01:08:14 7 Sports
01:13:41 8 Parks and greenspace
01:16:13 9 Law and government
01:16:22 9.1 Government
01:17:35 9.2 Politics
01:20:32 9.3 Crime
01:25:23 9.4 Employee pensions
01:26:09 10 Education
01:26:18 10.1 Schools and libraries
01:29:37 10.2 Colleges and universities
01:31:31 11 Media
01:31:40 11.1 Television
01:33:16 11.2 Newspapers
01:34:11 11.3 Movies and Filming
01:35:34 11.4 Radio
01:36:17 11.5 Video Games
01:36:45 12 Infrastructure
01:36:54 12.1 Transportation
01:37:42 12.1.1 Expressways
01:38:31 12.1.2 Transit systems
01:40:17 12.1.3 Passenger rail
01:41:03 12.1.4 Bicycle-sharing system
01:41:46 12.1.5 Freight rail
01:42:43 12.1.6 Airports
01:43:45 12.1.7 Port authority
01:45:09 12.2 Utilities
01:46:28 12.3 Health systems
01:48:31 13 Sister cities
01:49:31 14 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Chicago ( (listen), locally also ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as Chicagoland. The Chicago metropolitan area has nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was one of the five largest cities in the world. During this period, Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.Chicago is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It was the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is the one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. Chicago has the fourth-largest gross metropolitan product in the world—generating about $670.5 billion according to September 2017 estimates—ranking it after the metropo ...
“Bartholomew’s Sky” Part 2 of 2 LIVE Painting Demonstration in Acrylic with Dena Tollefson
Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio as she paints Bartholomew's Sky in acrylic on canvas. This fun, relaxing painting demonstration video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Be sure to watch Part 1 of Bartholomew's Sky as Dena takes a smoothly painted underpainting and begins to transform it with thick daubs of acrylic paint, palette knives and spoons. Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
My technique can be done in either oil paint and acrylic paint.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden Full Tour - Columbia, SC - Part 1
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden Full Tour - Columbia, SC - Part 1
The Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is a 170-acre (69 ha) zoo, aquarium, and botanical garden located along the Saluda River in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. A small portion of the zoo extends into the nearby city of West Columbia. It is operated by the Rich-Lex Riverbanks Park Special Purpose District, a partnership of the city of Columbia and Richland and Lexington counties. It is overseen by the Riverbanks Park Commission, comprising two members each from the three governments and one at-large member.
Animals and Exhibits:
The zoo is home to over 2,000 animals, with collections of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish. In 2002, additions included exhibits for African elephants, gorillas, and koalas. The Birdhouse at Riverbanks (opened 2001) was given a Significant Achievement Award by the AZA as one of the best new zoo exhibits in the United States, and features a display of king, rockhopper, and gentoo penguins. The Zoo 2002 plan cost $15 million.
African Plains is a 2-acre (0.81 ha) exhibit featuring giraffe, Grant's zebra, and ostrich.[3] In the 90s, the zoo had a hippo and rhinos.
The Aquarium Reptile Complex (opened in 1989 as part of the Zoo II plan) is a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) building with a 50,000-U.S.-gallon (190,000 L) tank for Pacific coral reef species, as well as exhibits for Galapagos tortoises, false gharials, Komodo dragons, and other reptiles. There is a Galapagos tortoise sculpture next to it.
Opened in 2002,[5] Ndoki Forest houses two of the larger African species, the African elephant and western lowland gorilla, as well as de Brazza's monkey, slender-tailed meerkat, and various birds. The elephants live in a 1⁄2-acre (0.20 ha) yard with a 250,000-U.S.-gallon (950,000 L) pool.
Riverbanks Farm (opened in 1988) contains domestic animals and allows guests to feed the zoo's goats and llamas. Lemur Island is an exhibit including ring-tailed lemurs and red ruffed lemurs. Conservation Outpost has threatened species such as howler monkeys, fishing cats, and tree kangaroos. In 1983, the Education Center opened for Zoo Camp.
Kangaroo Walkabout is another recent addition. It has a path leading into the exhibit where visitors can view wallabies and red kangaroos without a barrier between them. However, visitors cannot stray from the path.
The Riverbanks Zoo has added a Malayan tapir on January 18, 2013, and a breeding pair of babirusas in 2012. The babirusas have successfully been bred and can be found in the previous warthog exhibit.
In June 2016 a new Sea lion exhibit was opened, which is modeled after San Francisco's Pier 39. Around that time the newly renovated Entrance, renovated otter exhibit, and renovated grizzly bear exhibit also opened. This was all part of the zoo's $36 million Destination Riverbanks plan.
Separate exhibits include hamadryas baboons, lions, Siberian tigers, meerkats, alligators, and siamangs.
The last original animal who had been there since the zoo's opening, a female Caribbean flamingo, died in March 2014.
The Birmingham Zoo's western lowland gorilla, Cenzoo was sent to this zoo in late February 2015 to breed with a female gorilla from North Carolina Zoo and two more female gorillas from Zoo Atlanta as part of the recommendation of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Species Survival Plan.
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