Christmas 2012, my mother and I visited family in Chicago and during our trip, we took a day to see the sites of the city. There were many sculptures to see, but the one that particularly caught my attention was located in Millennium Park, known as “The Bean” or Cloud Gate. This famous sculpture was created by Anish Kapoor, born in India. Kapoor was born on March 12, 1954 in Mumbai, India, to Punjabi and Iraqi Jewish parents. (6) He moved to London in 1973 to study at Hornsey College until 1977, where he attended the Chelsea School of Art for a year. In the 1980s Kapoor began to become known for his sculptures and installations while he began to use materials such as stone, aluminum and resin. Kapoor was awarded the Turner Prize for contemporary art in 1990 after being represented by Britain at the Venice Biennale. (6) The 21st century was the beginning of Kapoor's large-scale career and his unique use of form, space and materials. 2004 marked the year Chicago got a new work of art that changed people's view of the city and was Kapoor's first public work in the United States. Kapoor designed and created the sculpture called Cloud Gate or its adopted name of "The Bean". The price of the sculpture amounted to 23 million dollars and was made in California, disassembled and then shipped to Chicago in July 2004. (1) Description: (Artistic Process) The Cloud Gate was initially rejected by the city of Chicago but is now loved by tourists and the city. It is made up of 168 stainless steel plates, its dimensions are 33 feet X 66 feet X 42 feet and it weighs 110 tons. (4) Kapoor teamed up with British engineering firm Atelier One, Performance Structure Inc., and a freelancer named Chris Jones to build “The… Middle of Paper… Textbook and I immediately got excited because I went to a very well known place and it is a highlight of Chicago. I honestly didn't even know that Cloud Gate was the formal name of the sculpture until I started this article Anish Kapoor is an artist who makes sculptures that viewers have to look at from different angles to fully understand his intentions. Many of Kapoor's artworks are extreme in scale with a wow factor. Kapoor really wanted the viewer to reflect on both the relationship between space and time while walking beneath the navel of the art. The use of stainless steel plates creates the reflection of what the viewer's eyes perceive in the intake. Instead of using different colors, patterns or shapes, Kapoor used the smooth surface of the Cloud Gate to distort the viewer's perception into a way that every time you watch “The Bean,” it's never the same again..