The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The museum was inaugurated on October 18, 1997, by former King Juan Carlos I of Spain. The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980.
Puppy is a sculpture realized by the American artist Jeff Koons in 1992. It represents a canine puppy of the race West Highland White Terrier and consists of a structure of steel covered with flowers. It is located opposite to the Museum Guggenheim of the city of Bilbao, Spain. The dog is made with 38000 flowers more or less and those flowers are changed each season and in special cases.
Maman is a bronze, stainless steel and marble sculpture by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide. It includes a sac containing 26 marble eggs and its abdomen and thorax are made of ribbed bronze. The title is the familiar French word for Mother. The sculpture was created in 1999 by Bourgeois as a part of her inaugural commission of The Unilever Series.
A song piece of composition is called bertso, the person who sings it is called bertsolari and the art of composing bertsoak is called bertsolaritza in Basque.
For many years only men sang, but today, more and more women are bertsolariak.
BERTSOLARIAK
“Bertsolariak”are popular poets who compose, sing and improvise verses in Basque, 'bertsoak', following rules of specific rhyme and metric, and a preset theme.
Bertsoak can be composed at a variety of occasions but are performed generally by one or various bertsolariak onstage in an event arranged for the purpose or as a sideshow, in homage ceremonies, in benefit meals, with friends or at a competition.
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BASQUE CULTURE AND ARQUITECTURE