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I paid a visit to the Umlauf Sculpture Garden in Austin, TX, yesterday.About sixty works are on display in a pleasant garden setting. I enjoyed strolling around looking at the works, even though most of Charles Umlauf's sculpture is not to taste. No doubt he was a master of his craft, but for the most part his visual imagination strikes me as having been overly prone to sentimentality and conservative allegory, of the type seen in "Family" and "Torchbearers", shown on the page linked below.
The same page does show works that do appeal to me more, such as the classically inspired "Muses" and two works where the influence of modernism is more apparent, "Supplication" and "Madonna and Child".
https://www.umlaufsculpture.org/1960-1969
What came as a surprise on my visit was an exhibition devoted to....
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Farrah Fawcett’s art roots unveiled in exhibition at UMLAUF Sculpture Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1304496/farrah-fawcetts-art-roots-unveiled-in-exhibition-at-umlauf-sculpture-garden/ #art #austin #BronzeSculptures #CharlesUmlauf #exhibition #FarrahFawcett #garden #texas #UmlaufSculptureGarden