According to the artist, Applause represents the three performing arts: drama, music and dance. The columns represent giant arms with hands cupped in a gesture of clapping and the pink linear details near the top suggest echoes of applause escaping into space.

David Davis was born in Rumania in 1920. He migrated to the U.S. at the age of 14. His sculptures are based on three basic shapes - the rectangle, the triangle and the circle. All the shapes he uses in one sculpture have similar proportions. Davis uses only geometric shapes in his compositions.

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