Beniamino Bufano on Public Art - Revision history

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	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

			[[Image:Ted-Kurihara-Benny-Bufano-March-24-1968 0205-b-024a-copy.jpg\|800px]]

			'''Benny Bufano in his workshop, March 24, 1968.'''

			''Photo: © [https://tedkuriharaphotography.com/ Ted Kurihara]''

			[[Image:Ted-Kurihara-Bufano 0205-b-003-copy.jpg\|310px\|left]] [[Image:Ted-Kurihara-Benny-Bufano-w-bear 0205-e-001-copy.jpg\|310px\|right]]

			''Photos: © [https://tedkuriharaphotography.com/ Ted Kurihara]''

	Bufano was a very strong voice for social change in America. He produced art that advocated resistance to oppression. "I sculptured 'Peace' in the form of a projectile, to express the idea that if peace is to be preserved today it must be enforced peace-enforced by the democracies against Fascist barbarism. Modern warfare, which involves the bombing of women and children, has no counterpart in a peace interpreted by the conventional motif of olive branches and doves." (O'Connor 1973)		Bufano was a very strong voice for social change in America. He produced art that advocated resistance to oppression. "I sculptured 'Peace' in the form of a projectile, to express the idea that if peace is to be preserved today it must be enforced peace-enforced by the democracies against Fascist barbarism. Modern warfare, which involves the bombing of women and children, has no counterpart in a peace interpreted by the conventional motif of olive branches and doves." (O'Connor 1973)
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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:Ted-Kurihara-Benny-Bufano-3-24-1968-0205-a-004-copy.jpg\|800px]]

			''Photo: © [https://tedkuriharaphotography.com/ Ted Kurihara]''

	[[Image:Bufano-Peace-statue-on-Brotherhood-Way-2014 2851.jpg]]		[[Image:Bufano-Peace-statue-on-Brotherhood-Way-2014 2851.jpg]]
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	'''Enjoy an [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lgLl5Rb8EqwUtdXROWzHBVWxsVpEzg4p&hl=en&ll=37.76264777129591%2C-122.38913931610405&z=12 evolving map of sculptures by Beniamino Bufano in San Francisco] created by Paul Hays'''		'''Enjoy an [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lgLl5Rb8EqwUtdXROWzHBVWxsVpEzg4p&hl=en&ll=37.76264777129591%2C-122.38913931610405&z=12 evolving map of sculptures by Beniamino Bufano in San Francisco] created by Paul Hays'''

	[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:OMI/Ingleside]] [[category:North Beach]] [[category:Marina]]		[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:OMI/Ingleside]] [[category:North Beach]] [[category:Marina]]

Ccarlsson at 22:28, 27 February 2023

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	[[Image:Bufpeac.jpg]]		[[Image:Bufpeac.jpg]]

	~~(right)~~ '''Statue of Peace'''		'''Statue of Peace in its original installation at SF Airport, c. 1960s.'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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	[[Image:Bufano-Peace-statue-on-Brotherhood-Way-2014 2851.jpg]]		[[Image:Bufano-Peace-statue-on-Brotherhood-Way-2014 2851.jpg]]

	'''The Peace statue was ~~a recurrent theme for Bufano, seen here on~~ Brotherhood Way near SF State in 2014.'''		'''The Peace statue was relocated to Brotherhood Way near SF State, seen here in 2014.'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

Ccarlsson at 22:25, 27 February 2023

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	Unlike [[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu\|Sargent Johnson]], who is reported to have shrewdly studied the tastes of patrons by working in an art gallery in order to meet them, Bufano maintained an anti-patron stance. He quoted the "whining complaint and recrimination" in a letter he received from an ex-patron to illustrate the need for artists to be less dependent on patrons to survive. The patron was incensed at Bufano for proposing a monumental St. Francis made of stainless steel and copper overlooking the bay, insisting instead that Bufano's best work was represented by his little statues of children, rabbits, deer, and puppies. Bufano then asked, "How can such a man understand the Sun Yat-sen or the Statue of Peace?" "How can a cultural pattern be developed for America if art and the artists are subjugated to the whims and idiosyncrasies of a few overfed decadent merchant princes, carryovers from the days of feudalism?" (O'Connor 1973)		Unlike [[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu\|Sargent Johnson]], who is reported to have shrewdly studied the tastes of patrons by working in an art gallery in order to meet them, Bufano maintained an anti-patron stance. He quoted the "whining complaint and recrimination" in a letter he received from an ex-patron to illustrate the need for artists to be less dependent on patrons to survive. The patron was incensed at Bufano for proposing a monumental St. Francis made of stainless steel and copper overlooking the bay, insisting instead that Bufano's best work was represented by his little statues of children, rabbits, deer, and puppies. Bufano then asked, "How can such a man understand the Sun Yat-sen or the Statue of Peace?" "How can a cultural pattern be developed for America if art and the artists are subjugated to the whims and idiosyncrasies of a few overfed decadent merchant princes, carryovers from the days of feudalism?" (O'Connor 1973)

	[[Image:Bufanoseal.jpg~~\|left~~]]		[[Image:Bufanoseal.jpg]]

	'''Seal at Maritime Museum'''		'''Seal at Maritime Museum'''

	~~''Photo: Chris Carlsson''~~

	~~[[Image:Bufpeac.jpg\|300px\|right]]~~

	~~(right) '''Statue of Peace'''~~

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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	'''Penguin's Prayer at Lake Merced, 2014.'''		'''Penguin's Prayer at Lake Merced, 2014.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:Bufpeac.jpg]]

			(right) '''Statue of Peace'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:Bufano-Peace-statue-on-Brotherhood-Way-2014 2851.jpg]]

			'''The Peace statue was a recurrent theme for Bufano, seen here on Brotherhood Way near SF State in 2014.'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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	'''Enjoy an [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lgLl5Rb8EqwUtdXROWzHBVWxsVpEzg4p&hl=en&ll=37.76264777129591%2C-122.38913931610405&z=12 evolving map of sculptures by Beniamino Bufano in San Francisco] created by Paul Hays'''		'''Enjoy an [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lgLl5Rb8EqwUtdXROWzHBVWxsVpEzg4p&hl=en&ll=37.76264777129591%2C-122.38913931610405&z=12 evolving map of sculptures by Beniamino Bufano in San Francisco] created by Paul Hays'''

	[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]]		[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:OMI/Ingleside]] [[category:North Beach]] [[category:Marina]]

Ccarlsson at 22:22, 27 February 2023

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	Unlike [[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu\|Sargent Johnson]], who is reported to have shrewdly studied the tastes of patrons by working in an art gallery in order to meet them, Bufano maintained an anti-patron stance. He quoted the "whining complaint and recrimination" in a letter he received from an ex-patron to illustrate the need for artists to be less dependent on patrons to survive. The patron was incensed at Bufano for proposing a monumental St. Francis made of stainless steel and copper overlooking the bay, insisting instead that Bufano's best work was represented by his little statues of children, rabbits, deer, and puppies. Bufano then asked, "How can such a man understand the Sun Yat-sen or the Statue of Peace?" "How can a cultural pattern be developed for America if art and the artists are subjugated to the whims and idiosyncrasies of a few overfed decadent merchant princes, carryovers from the days of feudalism?" (O'Connor 1973)		Unlike [[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu\|Sargent Johnson]], who is reported to have shrewdly studied the tastes of patrons by working in an art gallery in order to meet them, Bufano maintained an anti-patron stance. He quoted the "whining complaint and recrimination" in a letter he received from an ex-patron to illustrate the need for artists to be less dependent on patrons to survive. The patron was incensed at Bufano for proposing a monumental St. Francis made of stainless steel and copper overlooking the bay, insisting instead that Bufano's best work was represented by his little statues of children, rabbits, deer, and puppies. Bufano then asked, "How can such a man understand the Sun Yat-sen or the Statue of Peace?" "How can a cultural pattern be developed for America if art and the artists are subjugated to the whims and idiosyncrasies of a few overfed decadent merchant princes, carryovers from the days of feudalism?" (O'Connor 1973)

	[[Image:Bufanoseal.jpg]]		[[Image:Bufanoseal.jpg\|left]]

	'''Seal at Maritime Museum'''		'''Seal at Maritime Museum'''
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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

			[[Image:Penguins-prayer-Bufano-at-Lake-Merced-2014 2856.jpg]]

			'''Penguin's Prayer at Lake Merced, 2014.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''



	[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]		[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]

Ccarlsson: added photo

2021-09-29T04:57:59Z

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	'''St. Francis on horse.'''		'''St. Francis on horse.'''

			[[Image:Bufano-Madonna-at-Ft-Mason-2010 6698.jpg]]

			'''Bufano Madonna overlooking the Great Meadow at Fort Mason, 2010.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]		[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]

Lisaruth at 02:18, 25 July 2020

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	[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]		[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]

	'''Enjoy ~~this~~ [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lgLl5Rb8EqwUtdXROWzHBVWxsVpEzg4p&hl=en&ll=37.76264777129591%2C-122.38913931610405&z=12 evolving map of sculptures by Beniamino Bufano in San Francisco] created by Paul Hays'''		'''Enjoy an [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lgLl5Rb8EqwUtdXROWzHBVWxsVpEzg4p&hl=en&ll=37.76264777129591%2C-122.38913931610405&z=12 evolving map of sculptures by Beniamino Bufano in San Francisco] created by Paul Hays'''

	[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]]		[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]]

Lisaruth: added link to google map of Bufano sculptures

2020-07-25T02:18:12Z

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	[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]		[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]

			'''Enjoy this [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lgLl5Rb8EqwUtdXROWzHBVWxsVpEzg4p&hl=en&ll=37.76264777129591%2C-122.38913931610405&z=12 evolving map of sculptures by Beniamino Bufano in San Francisco] created by Paul Hays'''

	[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]]		[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]]

Ccarlsson at 00:15, 24 July 2018

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	[[Image:Benny-Bufano 1963 AAC-9211.jpg\|left]]		[[Image:Benny-Bufano 1963 AAC-9211.jpg\|left]]

	'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Bufano Benny Bufano]'''		'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Bufano Benny Bufano], 1963'''

	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

Ccarlsson: swapped photo at top

2018-07-24T00:15:25Z

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	''by Tommy L. Lott, Excerpted from "Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson," in'' Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture, ''1998.''		''by Tommy L. Lott, Excerpted from "Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson," in'' Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture, ''1998.''

	[[Image:~~art1$bufano~~-~~and~~-~~faces~~.jpg\|left~~\|220px~~]]		[[Image:Benny-Bufano 1963 AAC-9211.jpg\|left]]

	'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Bufano Benny Bufano]'''		'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Bufano Benny Bufano]'''

			''Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library''

	In his essay on public art, Bufano presents a philosophy of contemporary art that is thoroughly political (O'Connor 1973). Bufano maintained that art must become democratic by being "big enough to belong to everybody, too big for anyone to put in his pocket and call his own." Rather than produce art to fit over some patron's fireplace, he invoked a notion of public art that is created for the benefit of the masses. He maintained that the function of art is to create a universal culture that will guide the future course of world destiny to a better way of living. When Bufano spoke of guiding the future course of world destiny he assigned a political role to artists in combating the rise of fascism and modern warfare.		In his essay on public art, Bufano presents a philosophy of contemporary art that is thoroughly political (O'Connor 1973). Bufano maintained that art must become democratic by being "big enough to belong to everybody, too big for anyone to put in his pocket and call his own." Rather than produce art to fit over some patron's fireplace, he invoked a notion of public art that is created for the benefit of the masses. He maintained that the function of art is to create a universal culture that will guide the future course of world destiny to a better way of living. When Bufano spoke of guiding the future course of world destiny he assigned a political role to artists in combating the rise of fascism and modern warfare.

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	''by Tommy L. Lott, Excerpted from "Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson," in'' Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture, ''1998.''		''by Tommy L. Lott, Excerpted from "Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson," in'' Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture, ''1998.''

	[[Image:art1$bufano-and-faces.jpg]]		[[Image:art1$bufano-and-faces.jpg\|left\|220px]]

	'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Bufano Benny Bufano]'''		'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Bufano Benny Bufano]'''

	In his essay on public art, Bufano presents a philosophy of contemporary art that is thoroughly political (O'Connor 1973). Bufano maintained that art must become democratic by being "big enough to belong to everybody, too big for anyone to put in his pocket and call his own." Rather than produce art to fit over some patron's fireplace, he invoked a notion of public art that is created for the benefit of the masses. He maintained that the function of art is to create a universal culture that will guide the future course of world destiny to a better way of living. When Bufano spoke of guiding the future course of world destiny he assigned a political role to artists in combating the rise of fascism and modern warfare.		In his essay on public art, Bufano presents a philosophy of contemporary art that is thoroughly political (O'Connor 1973). Bufano maintained that art must become democratic by being "big enough to belong to everybody, too big for anyone to put in his pocket and call his own." Rather than produce art to fit over some patron's fireplace, he invoked a notion of public art that is created for the benefit of the masses. He maintained that the function of art is to create a universal culture that will guide the future course of world destiny to a better way of living. When Bufano spoke of guiding the future course of world destiny he assigned a political role to artists in combating the rise of fascism and modern warfare.

			Unlike [[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu\|Sargent Johnson]], who is reported to have shrewdly studied the tastes of patrons by working in an art gallery in order to meet them, Bufano maintained an anti-patron stance. He quoted the "whining complaint and recrimination" in a letter he received from an ex-patron to illustrate the need for artists to be less dependent on patrons to survive. The patron was incensed at Bufano for proposing a monumental St. Francis made of stainless steel and copper overlooking the bay, insisting instead that Bufano's best work was represented by his little statues of children, rabbits, deer, and puppies. Bufano then asked, "How can such a man understand the Sun Yat-sen or the Statue of Peace?" "How can a cultural pattern be developed for America if art and the artists are subjugated to the whims and idiosyncrasies of a few overfed decadent merchant princes, carryovers from the days of feudalism?" (O'Connor 1973)

	[[Image:Bufanoseal.jpg]]		[[Image:Bufanoseal.jpg]]

	'''Seal at Maritime Museum'~~''<br>''Photo: Chris Carlsson~~''		'''Seal at Maritime Museum'''

	Unlike [[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu\|Sargent Johnson]], who is reported to have shrewdly studied the tastes of patrons by working in an art gallery in order to meet them, Bufano maintained an anti-patron stance. He quoted the "whining complaint and recrimination" in a letter he received from an ex-patron to illustrate the need for artists to be less dependent on patrons to survive. The patron was incensed at Bufano for proposing a monumental St. Francis made of stainless steel and copper overlooking the bay, insisting instead that Bufano's best work was represented by his little statues of children, rabbits, deer, and puppies. Bufano then asked, "How can such a man understand the Sun Yat-sen or the Statue of Peace?" "How can a cultural pattern be developed for America if art and the artists are subjugated to the whims and idiosyncrasies of a few overfed decadent merchant princes, carryovers from the days of feudalism?" (O'~~Connor 1973)~~		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	[[Image:Bufpeac.jpg]]		[[Image:Bufpeac.jpg\|300px\|right]]

	'''Statue of Peace'''		(right) '''Statue of Peace'''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''
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	Bufano was a very strong voice for social change in America. He produced art that advocated resistance to oppression. "I sculptured 'Peace' in the form of a projectile, to express the idea that if peace is to be preserved today it must be enforced peace-enforced by the democracies against Fascist barbarism. Modern warfare, which involves the bombing of women and children, has no counterpart in a peace interpreted by the conventional motif of olive branches and doves." (O'Connor 1973)		Bufano was a very strong voice for social change in America. He produced art that advocated resistance to oppression. "I sculptured 'Peace' in the form of a projectile, to express the idea that if peace is to be preserved today it must be enforced peace-enforced by the democracies against Fascist barbarism. Modern warfare, which involves the bombing of women and children, has no counterpart in a peace interpreted by the conventional motif of olive branches and doves." (O'Connor 1973)

			[[Image:Buf-stfrancis-on-horse.jpg]]

			'''St. Francis on horse.'''

	[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]		[[Sargent Johnson and His Milieu \| Prev. Document]] [[Public Arts Programs in the 1930s \| Next Document]]

	[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]]		[[category:Public Art]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:1970s]]