Tag: sculpture

Cephalopods

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On my recent bike trip I came across a so-called “Skulpturenpark” in Bad König im Odenwald.

It’s an untidy plot of land next to an industrial site in the back of the local spa garden. There are quite a lot of sculptures scattered over the plot, most of them are quite whimsical, in three or four distinctive styles and by as many artists, I think.

to be or not art is the answer

Photographing Public Art Challenge #10

It Must Be All the Wine

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The people living in the Rheinland, the area on both sides of the middle section of the river Rhine, are said to be jolly, fun-loving, and generally full of joie de vivre. In Koblenz they have a sculpture of two people illustrating a well-known verse of a regional writer who wrote hunourous poems.

  • a market-woman
  • a policeman
Can you imagine a more jocular pair?

The verse is written on a plaque on the ground:
The market-woman to the officer:
"Believe me I'm patient but
My husband has been peed on
by our neighbour's mutt."

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Jocularity.

Gold and Silver Sculptures

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The epitome of a bright and shiny sculpture: The guilded statue of Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch by William Bloye, in Birmingham.

Not so much golden but still bright – a garden decoration, an abstract sculpture in front of the station in Bad Soden am Taunus, a single foot next to Schloss Fürstenau in Steinbach, and another abstract in Weinheim.

The twentysixth #BrightSquare

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Wood Withers, Metal Rusts

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This sculpture by Uli Lamp, called Golem, stands in Hemsbach, a town in the northern part of the state Baden-Württemberg, between the church and the synagogue. The mythical creature is normally made of clay but wood and metal works as well, I think.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rusty or decayed