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The Stravinsky Fountain (La Fontaine Stravinsky) is a whimsical public fountain ornamented with sixteen works of sculpture, moving and spraying water, representing the works of composer Igor Stravinsky. It was created in 1983 by sculptors Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, and is located on Place Stravinsky, next to the Centre Pompidou, in Paris. The Stravinsky Fountain is a shallow basin of 580 square meters located in Place Stravinsky, between the Centre Pompidou and the Church of Saint-Merri. Within the basin are sixteen works of sculpture inspired by Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, and his other major works. The black mechanical pieces of sculpture are by Jean Tinguely, the colored works by Niki de Saint Phalle. The sculptures in the fountain represent: L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird) La Clef de Sol (the Musical Key of G) La Spirale (The Spiral) L'Elephant (The Elephant) Le Renard (The Fox) Le Serpent (The Serpent) La Grenouille (The Frog) La Diagonale (The Diagonal) La Mort (Death) La Sirène (The Mermaid) Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) L'Amour (Love) La Vie (Life) Le Cœur (The Heart) Le Chapeau de Clown (The Clown's Hat) Ragtime (Ragtime) The basin covers some of the rooms and offices of IRCAM, the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique, an organization devoted to promoting modern music and musicology, connected with the Pompidou Center. The founder of the IRCAM, composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, suggested the work of Stravinsky as a theme for the fountain. Because of the offices and rooms below, the fountain was designed to be as light as possible, with very shallow water, a bottom of stainless steel, and sculptures composed of plastics and other light materials [Wikipedia.org] |
| Date | Taken on 9 December 2014, 21:42 |
| Source | Place Stravinsky and La Fontaine Stravinsky |
| Author | Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia |
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