Miró's Chicago (The Sun, The Moon, and One Star)

A fifty-foot-tall skeleton of steel and bronze rises from the pavement, its dark, abstract curves twisted into a human shape. Joan Miró designed this sculpture in nineteen sixty-seven, but he never saw it installed. When the piece arrived in nineteen eighty-one, workers bolted it to the plaza floor, finishing a project that had begun with a sketch on a small piece of paper. The artist intended the sculpture to bridge the gap between his surrealist vision and the rigid lines of the city.