25 unusual sculptures, which you may not have known
To paraphrase a German art theorist Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, one can say that the sculpture is music, frozen in stone. While millions of tourists are photographed against the backdrop of world-famous masterpieces by Bernini, Michelangelo and Rodin, we offer you a collection of 25 less known, but noteworthy stone, bronze and steel sculptures.
Funny and cute, sometimes strange and frightening, they cheer up passers-by and make the city, which are a little unusual.
Mustangs of Las COLINAS in Irving (Texas, USA)
Disclosure (Expansion), new York, USA
The monument to the unknown passer-by, Wroclaw, Poland
Salmon, Portland, USA
People on the river, Singapore
Shoes on the Danube Bank, Budapest, Hungary
The sculpture "No to violence" (also known as "the Knotted gun"), new York, USA
To break out of the shackles (Break through from your mold), Philadelphia, USA
Black Ghost (Juodasis Vaiduoklis), Klaipeda, Lithuania
The travelers (Les voyageurs), Marseille, France
The Memorial Of Nelson Mandela, South Africa
De Vaartkapoen, Brussels, Belgium
The cattle drive, Dallas, United States
Maman (giant spider), London, UK
Hippos, Taipei, Taiwan
The sinking of the building at State library, Melbourne, Australia
The iguana Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Observer, Bratislava, Slovakia
Mihai Eminescu, Onesti, Romania
Episode of the First world war with figures of soldiers in full growth, Eceabat, Turkey
Hanging man, Prague, Czech Republic
Kelpies, Grangemouth (Grangemouth), United Kingdom
Pigs in front of the shopping center Rundle Mall, Adelaide, Australia
The unknown official, Reykjavik, Iceland
Headington shark, Oxford, England
Keywords: Art | Unusual monuments | Sculptures