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2007 -
EINSTEIN (Wickham Style) |
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Our school is located in Cunningham,
TN. It is a small community adjacent to Palmyra. It is impossible to be
from this area and not have at one time or another been influenced by the
great work of E.T. Wickham. He is truly a legend in folk art and our project
this year was a dedication to him. During the 1950s and throughout the
sixties, he built life-size statues of animals,
relatives, religious figures, prominent Tennesseans and other
famous Americans. He was a self-taught artist who made them out of
concrete using pipes and wire as reinforcement. He used stove pipes as
molds for making the pillars to the monuments. He inscribed captions at
the base of his monuments. Most of the statues were placed in a row in
clear view of people passing by on Buck Smith road. Countless people saw
these statues and were awed by them. To honor him we constructed an
Einstein statue in Wickham style under the direction of our amazing art
teacher Mike Andrews. For more
on the work of E.T. Wickham you really must visit this link. Your really
missing out if you do not. Ours plans are to construct Newton next year so
they can discuss gravity forever on the E=MC2 playground. |
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The Class With The Dream |
E=MC2 |
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The Finished Project |
The Artist |
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