Cadillac ranch

Cadillac Ranch - Mixed media collage on paper, made with photos taken at Cadillac Ranch (Potter County, TX) and around Munster, TX, hand-painted and... more

by Elena Nosyreva

Title

Cadillac ranch

Artist

Elena Nosyreva

Medium

Mixed Media

Description

Cadillac Ranch - Mixed media collage on paper, made with photos taken at Cadillac Ranch (Potter County, TX) and around Munster, TX, hand-painted and found papers, acrylics, water-soluble crayons.

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were (when originally installed during 1974) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line (most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of mid twentieth century Cadillacs; the tail fin) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
Cadillac Ranch is visible from the highway, and though it is located on private land, visiting it is tacitly encouraged. In addition, writing graffiti on or otherwise spray-painting the vehicles is also encouraged, and the vehicles, which have long since lost their original colors, are wildly decorated.

(c) All copyrights reserved by Elena Nosyreva.

Uploaded

September 15th, 2014