Plastic Lawn Flamingo
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His next project would prove to be his most famous. He couldn't get his hands on real flamingos, so he used photographs from a National Geographic in its place. He sculpted the original out of clay, which was then used to make a plaster cast. The plaster cast, in turn, was used to form the molds for the plastic. The original design called for detailed wooden legs, but they proved to be too costly and were replaced by the metal ones still seen today. While the exact date was never recorded, the first pink flamingo was born some time during 1957. | His next project would prove to be his most famous. He couldn't get his hands on real flamingos, so he used photographs from a National Geographic in its place. He sculpted the original out of clay, which was then used to make a plaster cast. The plaster cast, in turn, was used to form the molds for the plastic. The original design called for detailed wooden legs, but they proved to be too costly and were replaced by the metal ones still seen today. While the exact date was never recorded, the first pink flamingo was born some time during 1957. | ||
| - | Since then it has become an icon of pop culture, and won Don Featherstone | + | Since then it has become an icon of pop culture, and won Don Featherstone an ig Nobel Prize for Art in 1996. |
After the release of John Waters's 1972 movie “Pink Flamingos”, plastic flamingos came to be the stereotypical example of lawn kitsch. | After the release of John Waters's 1972 movie “Pink Flamingos”, plastic flamingos came to be the stereotypical example of lawn kitsch. | ||
