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Cyclus. Yellow shirt
Vasko Lipovac1994
The Olympic Museum
Lausanne, Switzerland
Sculpture of a road racer with the yellow shirt, constructed out of two circles and two triangles.
This sculpture is part of a series of 66 similar sculptures which could strike us as a boring series of identical figures were it not for the fine psychological differentiation between them. The slight alteration in body sculpture and painted facial expressions (especially the stress on the eyes) reflects a variety of moods and character traits. The central theme is here expressed by colour, rather than form: colour defines all the characters.
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- Title: Cyclus. Yellow shirt
- Creator Lifespan: 14 June 1931 - 4 July 2006
- Creator Nationality: Croatian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Split, Croatia
- Creator Birth Place: Kotor, Montenegro
- Date Created: 1994
- Location Created: Croatia
- Sculptor and painter: Vasko Lipovac
- Physical Dimensions: w1060 x h1355 x d410 cm (Complete)
- Collection information: This “Yellow Shirt” sculpture was part of a series of 66 road racers entitled Cyclus (1994-1995) which were presented at the Pavilion of Arts in Zagreb in 1996 and exhibited at The Olympic Museum in the “Le Tour de France, le plus grand stade du monde” exhibition in 2000.
- Artistic school or movement: At the end of high school in Kotor, he settled down in Zagreb, Croatia, and entered the Academy of Applied Arts in 1950. He took sculpture courses with Kosta Angeli Radovani and graduated in painting with Željko Hegedušic in 1955. He then worked in the studio of Krsto Hegedušic, where he found the opportunity to explore his own artistic world within the contemporary movements of European and world art, which were very extensive and fruitful in the 1950s. In a period of such creative force, Vasko Lipovac created his own world in the rich diversity of geometrical and anthropological humanistic reciprocity, nurturing a structural visual plausibility in sculpture and painting. After 1967, Lipovac worked and lived in Split in Croatia, where he produced numerous works such as cycles of paintings, graphics, watercolours, sculptures and painted sculptures. Lipovac won the art contest organised by the IOC to honour basketball player Drazen Petrovic in 1995.
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: International Olympic Committee, 2003, ©IOC/G.Peter
- Medium: Sculpture made of wood and polyurethane
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