Sculptures Around Town

[HUGH]

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]

Yeah, yeah, very cool and all, but I ask you: does your town have a giant stucco lemon??

[HUGH]

Lemon Grove, what other theme could you portray?

[WØTKX]

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...

[NQ6U]

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]

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]

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]

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]

A good beer can make anything look like art though, when compounded by the induction of copious quantities.

[KG4NEL]

Lemon Grove, what other theme could you portray?

Lemon party?