Who Is Lorado Taft´s Great American Lakes?

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Great American Lakes is created by an American sculptor, writer and educator, Lorado Taft. Taft is quite well-known through his writings than his sculptures; however, Taft hoped that the Great American Lakes would mark a new era of visual improvements. This sculpture is made through the process of casting the material: bronze into a special designed cast. In like matters, the sculpture presents the visual elements of Line, Shape, Light, and Color. The design principles in this sculpture seems demonstrates Variety, Emphasis & Subordination, Scale & Proportion, and Unity.

Correspondingly, I like this sculpture because in a way it resembles Mother Nature whereas each woman give an expression of responsibilities for the living beings in the

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