Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty in New York City was completed and dedicated on October 28th, 1886, ten years later than the original plan called for. So as of 2010, it is 124 years old.
The Staute of Liberty in the United States is 124 years old.
Originally, the Statue of Liberty was conceived as a gift from France to the United States for its 100th Anniversary (July 4, 1876), but troubles with financing as well as political issues delayed it by 10 years.

The first presentation of the design of the Statue of Liberty was made in France in 1870. Because of repeated delays, construction was not begun on the full scale statue until 1878.

Meanwhile, the United States began its own project to select the site and construct the pedestal on what is now known as Liberty Island.

The statue was completed in France in July, 1884, and arrived at New York Harbor on June 17, 1885.

Assembly of the statue at its final location was completed April 22, 1886 and dedicated on October 28, 1886.

So, presently, the statue is 123 years old.
124 years old.
over 100 years old

1.look at a picture of a statue

2. get a pencil

3. DRAW IT!

Answer:

There are several approaches to drawing anything:

• The iterative approach: Make any kind of rough drawing of the object. Examine each part of it and determine how you could make it look better, then change that area. Do this over and over again revisiting each section and improving it over and over again until you are happy with the result.
• The expanding view. Choose an part of the object, a leaf, a fingernail and draw it as well as you can. The add an adjacent part drawing it as well as you can until you have addd all parts of the entire subject. The go back to the iterative method to improve it.
• The Zen approach. Imagine the whole drawing on the paper in front of you, concentrate on it. When you can see the finished product in its entirety (every line and shading) simply trace around the drawing that you can "see"

For sculpture the steps are similar except there is a fourth method.

• Release the imprisoned work. Take your block of stone or wood and remove all the bits that don't look like the finished product. Michelangelo used this as his description of stone carving - "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free" .

There are two tablets on the Statue of Liberty to which you could be referring. The one inside the pedestal contains the famous sonnet, The New Colossus, written by Emma Lazarus:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The other one, held in Liberty's hand, contains the date of American independence in Roman numerals:

JULY

IV

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