Isamu Noguchi Red Cube In Nyc Photograph by John Telfer

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Isamu Noguchi Red Cube In Nyc

by John Telfer

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Title

Isamu Noguchi Red Cube In Nyc

Artist

John Telfer

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

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As a native Long Islander who has been traveling into NYC for 34 years for work and just to go out with friends in the city, there was always so many things I saw and said I wish I had my camera so I could capture that view or that image. So since I was off from work after Christmas a friend and I did the NYC tourist thing and went around to various iconic places that I had been wanting to photograph for a while. I started out downtown at Ground Zero and photographed Freedom Tower, next I began to head towards the New York Stock Exchange but while crossing Broadway I saw this famous architectural piece by the famous American artist Isamu Noguchi, the giant Red Cube, which sits on an angle with a silver hole in the middle of the bright red cube. I stopped and took several photos of it and even played around doing the tourist thing and had someone take my photo of me holding up the cube. When you are up close to this piece of art it truly is an amazing piece to view and look at. It was put up in front of the now Brown Brothers Harriman Building in 1968. For more information on Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube in New York City please read below;
Red Cube, 1968
Artist Isamu Noguchi
Location
The sculpture is located in front of 140 Broadway, between Liberty and Cedar Streets.
Description
The bright red painted steel of Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube stands out in strong contrast to the blacks, browns, and whites of the buildings and sidewalks around the sculpture. Located to one side of a small plaza in front of the HSBC (previously the Marine Midland Bank) building on Broadway, Red Cube is surrounded on three sides by skyscrapers, the height of which draw a viewer's eye upwards. The sculpture itself adds to this upward pull, as it balances on one corner, the opposite corner reaching towards the sky. Despite its title, the sculpture is not actually a cube, but instead seems as though it has been stretched along its vertical axis.

Aside from it's striking color, Red Cube also stands out from the surrounding architecture in that all of its lines are diagonals, whereas the buildings are made up of horizontal and vertical lines. Additionally, the sculpture is balanced somewhat precariously on one corner, while the buildings, by contrast, and solidly placed.

Through the center of the cube there is a cylindrical hole, revealing an inner surface of gray with evenly-spaced lines moving from one opening of the hole to the other. Looking through this hole, the viewer's gaze is directed towards the building behind, tying the sculpture and the architecture together.
Red Cube, 1968
Artist
Isamu Noguchi

Location
The sculpture is located in front of 140 Broadway, between Liberty and Cedar Streets.

Description
The bright red painted steel of Isamu Noguchi's Red Cube stands out in strong contrast to the blacks, browns, and whites of the buildings and sidewalks around the sculpture. Located to one side of a small plaza in front of the HSBC (previously the Marine Midland Bank) building on Broadway, Red Cube is surrounded on three sides by skyscrapers, the height of which draw a viewer's eye upwards. The sculpture itself adds to this upward pull, as it balances on one corner, the opposite corner reaching towards the sky. Despite its title, the sculpture is not actually a cube, but instead seems as though it has been stretched along its vertical axis.
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