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The tree is a spectacular creation because each part of the tree is necessary to its life. It is the perfect sculpture (Giuseppe Penone)
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René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Branche de pommier diadème ca. 1901 – 1902 The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Landscapehaircomb. c. 1899-1900 The CalousteGulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Haircomb - Le soleil levant – The Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Pendentif femmes entourees de branches de pin The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Pendant, La Princesse Lointaine
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Pendentif Nymphe dans un arbre
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Pendant with branches bearing pine cones Pendantif ‘Foret ’ 1901
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) ‘Winter enchantment’ Pendant, 1901 Winter Scene Pendant, 1901
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Plaque de cou ‘Aigles dans des branches de pin’
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Wooded Landscape Choker Plaque pour collier de chien The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Wooded Landscape Choker Plaque pour collier de chien The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) Plaque pour collier de chien “Branche de noisetier”
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) The kiss (le baisaer)
René Lalique (French, 1860-1945) The kiss (gold, enamels and ivory), 1900-02
Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian, 1846 - 1920) Bay Tree Egg
The Bay Tree egg (also known as the Orange Tree egg) is a jewelled nephrite and enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1911, for Nicholas II of Russia who presented the egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, on 12 April 1911 Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian, 1846 - 1920) Bay Tree Egg
Turning a tiny lever disguised as a fruit, hidden among the leaves of the bay tree, activates the hinged circular top of the tree and a feathered songbird rises and flaps its wings, turns its head, opens its beak and sings Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian, 1846 - 1920) Bay Tree Egg
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, 1958) exhibition of large-scale 3-D animations of natural phenomena
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, 1958) has transformed the landscape of contemporary art with her profoundly beautiful light-based installations that celebrate the ebb and flow of the natural world.
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, 1958) Blind Eye 1 (2018) at “Among the Trees” Hayward Gallery 2020
Shimmering Tree blossoms at Tacoma Art Museum Jennifer Steinkamp (American, 1958) Blind Eye 2 (2018)
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, 1958) In 2007, Steinkamp embarked on an extended series of flowering trees titled Mike Kelley, in tribute to the artist who was among her chief mentors during her years at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, 1958) Digital art, The Seasons
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, 1958) Digital art Judy Crook 1, 2012
Jennifer Steinkamp (American, 1958) Digital art Judy Crook 13, 2019 video installation
These projections enter into an eloquent dialogue as they surround the viewer. Each tree passes through seasonal cycles, going from bare to tender green; to autumnal incandescence; and back to the barren boughs of winter. At the same time, the boughs gyrate in a sinuous ballet, implying the larger earth cycles of wind, storm, and change. Jennifer Steinkamp’s digital projection Mike Kelley 1 is the most popular work at the Cleveland Clinic
Jill Berelowitz (British, 1955) Anima Mundi - Awakening the soul of the world Commissioned for The Faberge Big Egg Hunt, Anima Mundi was displayed outside Bank in the City of London (2012)
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955, Jill Berelowitz studied sculpture, first under Karen Jarozynska and then at the Johannesburg School of Art. Jill moved from her native South Africa to London 26 years ago and is one of the capital’s most innovative sculptors, known for her bronze, steel and optical resin works. Anima Mundi represents her philosophy of eternal life-cycles
Jill Berelowitz (British, 1955) DNA Tree of Life
Jill Berelowitz (British, 1955) The tree of life
Jill Berelowitz (British, 1955) Tree of Dreams
Jill Berelowitz (British, 1955) The Mind’s Eye Tree, Shakespeare’s New Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Shakespeare’s New Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon
‘His Mind’s Eye’ is the focal point of Shakespeare’s New Place. Jill Berelowitz has brought an evocative story of Shakespeare’s creative genius to life through an astonishing combination of elements. An almost bare bronze tree stands nearly fives metres high and six metres across in canopy. The structure is partly made of sections of a specially selected hawthorn tree from Box Hill, a National Trust property in Surrey. Its branches are swept to the side with the force of Shakespeare’s genius - more on that tomorrow.Under the tree sits a sphere, massive and elemental. One half shines miraculously bright, reflecting Shakespeare’s lambent vision, while the other remains in shadow, still rough and pitted like an asteroid
Jaakko Pernu (Finnish) Ground beneath, Oulu 1996-1999 Finnish Artist Jaakko Pernu uses tree branches to make huge public sculptures
Jaakko Pernu (Finnish) Kidnapping Nature 2006 Belgia
At almost five metres tall, the design of The UK Memorial at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park takes the form of two of the United Kingdom and New Zealand’s most iconic trees. The trunks of a Royal Oak and a Pōhutakawa intertwine to form one single leafy canopy, where leaves from both trees merge to create sense of shelter - giving the memorial its name: Whakaruruhau, meaning to protect The UK Memorial at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park
The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire, England. Completed in 2006, it is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project created by the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN). The project was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area
Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, the Singing Ringing Tree is a 3-metre (10 ft) tall construction comprising pipes of galvanised steel which harness the energy of the wind to produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves. Some of the pipes are primarily structural and visual elements, while others have been cut across their width enabling the sound. The harmonic and singing qualities of the tree were produced by tuning the pipes according to their length by adding holes to the underside of each
The Singing Ringing Tree In 2007, the sculpture won the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for architectural excellence
In March 2017, a second Singing Ringing Tree was set on the outskirts of Austin, Texas in the United States in the rural area of a small town called Manor