{"id":993,"date":"2024-12-31T09:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T09:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jvh.42web.io\/?p=993"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:51:42","slug":"common-market-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Common Market, 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>for the 20th <\/strong>anniversary<strong> of the signing of the Treaty of Rome<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Commission of the European Communities Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1977-MEC-Treaty-of-Rome_3-JVH-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1977-MEC-Treaty-of-Rome_3-JVH-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1977-MEC-Treaty-of-Rome_3-JVH-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1977-MEC-Treaty-of-Rome_3-JVH-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1977-MEC-Treaty-of-Rome_3-JVH-1536x1013.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1977-MEC-Treaty-of-Rome_3-JVH-2048x1350.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Commission was especially touched by such a gesture of sympathy coming as it does from and American artist working in the very city in which the Treaty was signed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A bronze sculpture for Europe\u2019s integration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Notwithstanding the difficult theme and communication mean, sculptor John Vassar House managed to express all the ideals and the \u201cphilosophy\u201d of the European Community creating a structural form with rapid circulatory movement, where the Common European Market (MEC) partners connect as essential and converging components, with a common, already intuitive, centrifugal strength, indicated and auspicated goal for the economic, political and social integration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terra e Vita il raccolto 22-28 March 1980 by N.F. translation by MH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">According to sculptor John Vassar House, the wedges represent the MEC partner countries as part of circuit with an upgrading insertion movement of the new coming European partners into a larger picture. The texture of the wedges represents the cultural characterization of each partner country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"795\" data-id=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-378-strasbourg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-378-strasbourg-1.jpg 591w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-378-strasbourg-1-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"588\" data-id=\"998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-453-1979-EP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-453-1979-EP.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-453-1979-EP-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"837\" data-id=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-441-1979-EP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-441-1979-EP.jpg 591w, https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SK-441-1979-EP-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sculptor John Vassar House preliminary sketches for the European Common Market sculpture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome Commission of the European Communities Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,73,104,113,61,123,144,66,116,56,93,147,109],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-additive","category-bronze","category-casting-hollow-lost-wax","category-circuit-letters-and-numbers","category-commemorative-sculpture","category-diagonal","category-europe","category-event-driven","category-freestanding-on-base","category-governmental-acquisition-and-other","category-large-size-sculptures","category-rome-italy","category-sculpture-in-the-round-3d","tag-cantilever-and-circuit-1972-1979"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnvassarhousesculptor.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}