![]() He heard something in the living room and went to investigate. Susan understands that the “eyes have been a point of focus.” She remembers a time Luis was home alone at night. “I didn’t want to go for that art process.” which has a number of his works including a cowboy riding a blue bucking horse. “I was trying to keep the process I used as close to the industrial process as possible because I felt it was, for lack of a better term, maybe a blue-collar process,” he said in a video for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in D.C. But working with his hands remained a huge part of his process, even as he began experimenting with fiberglass in the 60s. He spent time honing his skills in Mexico City and New York. Luis Jiménez studied architecture and, then, fine art at the University of Texas. “So he grew up with this strong tradition of working with his hands.” Stephanie Wolf/CPR News Susan Jimenez, Luis Jimenez’s widow, at the home she shared with the artist in Hondo, New Mexico on Oct. His father would say “This is how he learns,” Susan said. His widow, Susan Jiménez, said he often told stories about working alongside his dad, how he would come home, his hands marred by the work. As a young child, he apprenticed at his father’s neon-sign shop. Jiménez was born in El Paso, Texas in 1940. Those red eyes though, that people point to as evidence of Mustang’s demonic nature, are actually a tribute to the artist’s father. In the last seven years, the airport’s electrical team has only changed them just twice, Donohoe and her colleagues explained. No, they aren’t portals to perdition or even laser emitters. Horst wasn’t the only one with a question about “Mustang.” Michael “Gunner” Gunstanson, of Lakewood, wondered “who changes the light bulbs in the eyes of the big blue horse.” “The mustang is very Colorado,” he said, “and then it takes a hard left turn with the red eyes and the blue.” Courtesy Denver International Airport “Mustang” being installed at DIA in 2008. Well, in addition to the horse, there is a mural and gargoyle that might lend credence to that last one.Īdam Horst, of Aurora, thinks the sculpture is a fun, weird welcome to the state. Even if you look past the serious issues they’ve had lately with the reconstruction of the Great Hall, there’s a litany of conspiracy theories that say the outpost is home to Freemasons or a UFO hangar or that the terminal is a pictographic guide to the apocalypse. The airport is thick with intrigue and rumor. “We have this fierce blue mustang that we look at as kind of a protector of travelers, guarding this airport,” said Stacey Stegman, DIA’s senior vice president of communications, marketing and customer service. Officially, the artwork’s name is “ Mustang,” and the piece is a point of pride for the airport. The 32-foot-tall fiberglass sculpture towers over Peña Boulevard, its eyes glowing red at the cars whizzing by.ĭenverites colloquially know this mighty equine as “Blucifer.” Some love it, some hate it, some love to hate it and many more are curious about it. View the full definition in the Macmillan Dictionary.It’s hard to ignore the big blue horse that rears in a display of power and rebellion at Denver International Airport. “Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport – not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. There are two different bronco events in today’s rodeos: saddle bronc, in which riders use a specially-made saddle, and bareback, where no saddle is used. ![]() ![]() Points are awarded to both the rider and the bronco if they complete an eight-second ride. The rider must try to stay on the bronco for eight seconds without falling off or touching the horse with his or her free hand. When the rider is ready, the chute is opened and the horse bursts into the arena, bucking and kicking in an attempt to throw the rider off its back. In these events, participants climb onto the back of a bronco inside a metal or wood enclosure called a ‘chute’. In the sport of rodeo, bronco riding events are quite popular. Modern broncos are not wild, but are bred specifically for their strength, speed and bucking ability for use in rodeos. Wild broncos were allowed to roam on the open range until they reached maturity, then ranchers would round them up and attempt to tame them for use as riding or working horses. The first broncos were wild horses kept by cattle ranchers in the American West during the middle to late 1800s. Bronco commonly refers to a wild or untrained horse that behaves unpredictably, usually by kicking or bucking. ![]()
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