This summer the UCLA Hammer Museum courtyard is showing
Greg Lynn's Fountain, molded from kids' shark and whale toys. It's So. Cal.'s latest translation of Bernini's
Trevi Fountain into a lowbrow idiom. Compare Hollywood's
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and the
Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters' Trevi Fountain.
L.A. might also be implicated in the Orlando Disneyworld/Epcot's
Neptune Fountain (bottom), generally understood to be a cost-saving abbreviation of the Trevi. It places a version of Bernini's central figure among dolphins rather than sea horses. In another departure from the source, the architecture is painted
Golden Girls peach.
This summer the UCLA Hammer Museum courtyard is showing Greg Lynn's Fountain, molded from kids' shark and whale toys. It's So. Cal.'s latest translation of Bernini's Trevi Fountain into a lowbrow idiom. Compare Hollywood's Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and the Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters' Trevi Fountain.
L.A. might also be implicated in the Orlando Disneyworld/Epcot's Neptune Fountain (bottom), generally understood to be a cost-saving abbreviation of the Trevi. It places a version of Bernini's central figure among dolphins rather than sea horses. In another departure from the source, the architecture is painted Golden Girls peach.
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