# @ucsdadmissions on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkV6XSjVBe
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/14834990-ucsdadmissions-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-09-25T17:26:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UC San Diego Admissions (@UCSDAdmissions) — https://gondola.cc/UCSDAdmissions

## Caption

Happy Friday Tritons and #FutureTritons! ⁠
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Today we recognize, the notable #SunGod ☀️⁠
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The artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is best known for her oversized figures that embrace contradictory qualities such as good and evil, modern and primitive, sacred and profane, play and terror. ⁠
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De Saint Phalle's Sun God was the first work commissioned by the Stuart Collection and was her first outdoor commission in America. The exuberantly colored, fourteen-foot bird is placed atop a fifteen-foot concrete arch and sited on a grassy area between the Faculty Club and Mandeville Auditorium.⁠
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The students started the Sun God Festival in 1984. It has become one of the largest annual campus events.⁠
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Click link in bio to learn more about the unique selection of campus art pieces in the Stuart Collection.

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