Watts Towers
by Joseph Hollingsworth
Title
Watts Towers
Artist
Joseph Hollingsworth
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Located in south central Los Angeles California.
The towers were designed and built by Italian immigrant construction worker and tile mason Sabato ("Simon") Rodia (1879-1965), over a period of 33 years, from 1921 to 1954. The work is an example of outsider art, vernacular architecture and Italian-American naïve art. The sculptures' armatures are constructed from steel rebar and his own concoction of a type of concrete, wrapped with wire mesh. The main supports are embedded with pieces of porcelain, tile, and glass. They are decorated with found objects, including bottles, ceramic tiles, sea shells, figurines, mirrors, and much, much more.
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November 14th, 2014
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