Title of Artwork: “The Bus Driver”
Artwork by George Segal
Year Created 1962
Summary of The Bus Driver
On a late-night bus ride from New York to New Jersey, Segal had the germ of an idea for The Bus Driver. “My God, dare I trust my life to this prig?” Segal mumbled to himself as he looked at the driver.
It wasn’t long after that he came across a bus in a junkyard and hacked out the driver’s platform. This metal armature is used in The Bus Driver to create a lifelike plaster cast. (The model was Segal’s sister-in-brother.) law’s
All About The Bus Driver
Puppies in public places were considered Pop art as soon as they first appeared in the 1960s, when Segal created his plaster figures in fragments of real-world settings.
Segal, on the other hand, was interested in people, their gestures, postures, stances, and also their inner, psychological or spiritual condition. The whiteness of his plaster moulds had “its special connotations of disembodied spirit, inseparable from the fleshy corporeal details of the figure.” as he put it, which he valued highly.
When Segal saw “the dignity of helplessness—a massive, strong man, surrounded by machinery, and yet basically a very unheroic man trapped by forces larger than himself that he couldn’t control and least of all understand.” he was reminded of Charon, the ferryman of Greek myth who guides dead souls to the underworld.
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