Word: ironworks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four people were injured in a crash last night when a car struck a stone and ironwork fence in front of Kirkland House...
...collision toppled 25 feet of historic ironwork fence and stone pylons...
Much of the ornate ironwork that was added during the early part of the century was removed and melted in the 1940s for use in the war effort. The fire did even greater damage, though everything but the clock and tower were eventually repaired...
...fitted perfectly into the general move among artists at the end of the 19th century to refresh art from hitherto unused sources. One of the first artists to imagine a link between iron forging and formal sculpture was a minor Spanish painter, Santiago Rusinyol, an impassioned collector of the ironwork in which the smiths of his native Barcelona had always excelled. "I think of those forges of old Barcelona," he wrote in 1893, "where instinct was set free. There, in the darkness . . . I think I see springing from the fire an art without aesthetic rules or absurd restrictions...