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HUGH
08-06-2015, 04:26 AM
Many towns can claim to have sculptures, large and small. One artist in the nearest town, a small market town of about 30,000 inhabitants, has been making lightweight figures from glass-fibre mat and polyester resin for some time now and some of these are in public areas. One advantage, apart from cost, is that they can be attached to older, possibly fragile, buildings with little danger to the structure or the public.

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Very appropriate I think.

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Outside a small pub, most appropriate again.

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NQ6U
08-06-2015, 09:19 AM
Yeah, yeah, very cool and all, but I ask you: does your town have a giant stucco lemon??

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/giantlemon.jpg~original

HUGH
08-06-2015, 10:56 AM
Lemon Grove, what other theme could you portray?

WØTKX
08-06-2015, 10:56 AM
There is an artist group/co-op that puts up and changes sculptures here in Evergreen CO.

http://www.sculptureevergreen.org/

Here's one of the latest...

http://www.evergreencreativedistrict.com/Resources/Pictures/Creative%20Groups/Pokey_Toad.jpg

NQ6U
08-06-2015, 12:40 PM
Lemon Grove, what other theme could you portray?

Known locally simply as "The Big Lemon," it's rather absurd and misshapen but is, at least, a useful landmark: "You know the Big Lemon? Okay, turn left there and go three blocks. It'll be on your right."

KG4CGC
08-06-2015, 09:46 PM
In Downtown Greenville SC they have mouse sized bronze mice placed about the area and you're supposed to see how many you can find. Gotta find them all, eh?
At one time we had many non traditional modern sculptures but those are being replaced by bronze statues of old people. We have always been ahead of the curve when it comes to conservatism but the recent wave of uber conservatism brought about by the rise of the Tea Party is the cause, in my not so humble opinion, of why modern wonders are no longer standing.
Please note, this is not always the case. They did get one of those cool moving metal wind sculptures that looks like it's changing shape. Yeah, one of the round ones.

n2ize
08-08-2015, 04:51 PM
In Downtown Greenville SC they have mouse sized bronze mice placed about the area and you're supposed to see how many you can find. Gotta find them all, eh?
At one time we had many non traditional modern sculptures but those are being replaced by bronze statues of old people. We have always been ahead of the curve when it comes to conservatism but the recent wave of uber conservatism brought about by the rise of the Tea Party is the cause, in my not so humble opinion, of why modern wonders are no longer standing.
Please note, this is not always the case. They did get one of those cool moving metal wind sculptures that looks like it's changing shape. Yeah, one of the round ones.

Teabaggers generally hate art. To them ART = SOCIALISM = COMMUNISM = LIBERALISM (GASP !!!)

KG4CGC
08-08-2015, 08:06 PM
Teabaggers generally hate art. To them ART = SOCIALISM = COMMUNISM = LIBERALISM (GASP !!!)

Art don't help you track a deer or run a trout line.

WV6Z
08-09-2015, 07:15 AM
A good beer can make anything look like art though, when compounded by the induction of copious quantities.

KG4NEL
08-09-2015, 12:28 PM
Lemon Grove, what other theme could you portray?

Lemon party?

W3WN
08-10-2015, 01:22 PM
Sculptures? We can do better than that...

Pittsburgh has Dinosaurs!
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http://www.pbase.com/ralf/dinodays&page=all

WØTKX
08-13-2015, 12:06 AM
There is a Demon Horse near the Denver International Airport.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pYCSqoR2bI8/UxBQBsZ5u-I/AAAAAAAATMk/Src0oEFgePI/s1600/q.jpg