25 unique sculptures/statures from around the world

[LibraryLady]

I need to look up the back story on a couple of these.

http://www.boredpanda.com/worlds-most-creative-statues-sculptures/

[Allen]

Those are pretty good, except for the shoes. Thanks for posting.

[FlashM]

Did you read LL's explanation of the shoes on Facebook, Allen? Very meaningful, when you know the backstory.

[LibraryLady]

Backstory on some of the sculptures:

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director Can Togay, it was created by him and the sculptor Gyula Pauer on the bank of the Danube River. It honors the Jews who were killed by fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest during World War II. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank.

The sculpture showing people going into the river in Singapore is actually named The First Generation .


De Vaartkapoen by Tom Franzen stands outside the Communaute Francaise in Molenbeek. It is an irreverent tribute to the anarchaic side of the Bruxeloise. The title is a slang term for people born in Molenbeek; "de vaart" means "the canal" and "kapoen" means cheeky. It shows a young rebel, the Vaartkapoen, reminiscent of a jack-in-the-box, toppling over a policeman, thus overthrowing his authority.

The one in Wroclaw Poland is actually a series of similar statues..coming up from the ground at different parts of the city.

[Bob Of Burleson]

This is Alexander Calder's "Eagle," located in Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park. It used to sit about a block from where I worked in good old Foat Wuth, Texas.