Comments on: Experience The Thinker

By: albert J. Wilson

albert J. Wilson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:36:12 +0000

The viewer must slowly move the eye upward and feel the intensity of this work of art fiercely emenating from its core.

By: Brian H.

Brian H. — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:42:51 +0000

This sculpture reminds me of my wife, all those many years ago before we were married. She told me the sculpture reminded her of me because I was always thinking.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:07:44 +0000

The Thinker will be on view for 2 years. He’s already in place and ready to see visitors for our Grand Opening!

By: david

david — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:49:40 +0000

when is the thinker going to be on display? what are the dates and times?

By: Glenda

Glenda — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:39:59 +0000

“visceral, grounded and heavy” –
nice to match the physicality with Pinsky’s quote about the difference between inner work and performance.

By: Not yet open, but close!

Not yet open, but close! — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:07:36 +0000

[...] of info about the guy here: http://ncartmuseum.org/untitled/2010/03/experience-the-thinker/ [...]

By: annette gilson

annette gilson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:06:04 +0000

What a wonderful meditation! I want to move to NC and live in the museum! (Anyone remember *From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler*? A love-song sung to museums everywhere. Oh, we love you, museums.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:47:00 +0000

Fascinating and well-written. A fresh perspective that makes us look anew at a sculpture that could be invisible in its familiarity. Thank you!

By: blair

blair — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:14:02 +0000

I think it is very interesting how the name changed from a do-er to a think-er. From one who acts on a thought instead of one who mealy thinks it.
I wonder what the impact of the work is on people seeing this piece as one inspired yet not acting on this impulse. It seems to me, at least, that the change from do-er to think-er has effected the way the work is received. When it was a poet taking action on the inspiration given to him by a muse, it was doing, showing, impacting. Where as when it is only thinking the entire posses is internal.
Just something to think about =]

By: anne th

anne th — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:25:50 +0000

Fascinating. Thank you for inspiring a fresh look at a work so archetypal, so much a part of our cultural consciousness, that its literary origins have been obscured or overlooked not only by the commercialized absurdities to which you so wittily refer; the timeless and universal nature of the work as celebrating the cerebral, as offering a manifestation of man’s internal landscape, renders it subject to highly personal, even intimate interpretation. The original title, and the back-story accompanying it, puts this piece in context and helps ground the that ethereal romanticism of the notion of the Artist in the reality of its gritty, tough, toe-gripping core. Kudos to you for the wonderful and enlightening Pinsky quote.