Thread....Do you have photos of STATUES??

quite like this one:

Mark A. wrote in post #19493963
Also in Dublin (and I hope that I did not post these before):

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2hDG​zu8 127_2730LR5 by Mark A. photo, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2hDF​AZo 127_2736LR5 by Mark A. photo, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2hDF​FQq 127_2742LR5 by Mark A. photo, on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2hDF​Jb2 127_2745LR5 by Mark A. photo, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2hDG​N5U127_2746LR5 by Mark A. photo, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2hDF​QEQ127_2749LR5 by Mark A. photo, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2hDH​3hG127_2756LR5 by Mark A. photo, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/2hDD​8Ck127_2752LR5 by Mark A. photo, on Flickr

God those are haunting, what's the subject, the Potato Famine?

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19565182
God those are haunting, what's the subject, the Potato Famine?

Yes. Starvation and immigration.

Lubos-PM wrote in post #19523889
Iron piano at the monastery in the North Bohemian town of Ostrov in memory of the Baroque composer Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, who worked at the local castle

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Nice, sure I have played a few smaller works by him.

Lubos-PM wrote in post #19540139
The Bird of Paradise sculpture, Open-air GASK exhibition in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

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The sculptor must have been having a bad trip. Any idea what the artistic impulse is?

Grade I listed 16th-century country house, one of two heraldic devices flanking the entrance.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2p6q​EKc

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19565187
The sculptor must have been having a bad trip. Any idea what the artistic impulse is?

On the internet I found out that the author is Lukáš Rittstein, born 1973.

From the very beginning, his spatial works, moving between classical sculpture and the conceptual site-specific object, are able to convincingly combine the restlessness of the post-industrial age almost "at the end of history" and the message of affirmative humanism. His poignantly ironic vision is thus intertwined (not polemically, but even sympathetically) with the free imaginative questioning with which a child, not yet encumbered by "social rules", perceives the world. In this way, Rittstein has adopted a very specific expressive position, moving between tender nostalgia and raw surrealism. Fundamental here is the moment of dynamic metamorphosis of the given object, thanks to which we, as viewers, switch in our imaginations between factual reality and transformed dreaminess. The laminate sculpture Bird of Paradise (2018) is a prime example of this characteristic position of the artist.

So I don't know if only the author of the statue was under the influence of some substance, or if the person who wrote the text was as well .

Thanks for that.

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19565189
Grade I listed 16th-century country house, one of two heraldic devices flanking the entrance.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2p6q​EKc arch Eagle Statue A01 _30-09-23 by Lester W, on Flickr

Nice! that reminds me of a shot I took in Melbourne nearly 20 years ago...

joeseph wrote in post #19565351
Nice! that reminds me of a shot I took in Melbourne nearly 20 years ago...

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Nice - it is very similar, .... Perhaps they are meant to be gryphons?

It's bath time. National Trust Property, England.

Spiro Brusina, Zadar, an expert in molluscs

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19565182
God those are haunting, what's the subject, the Potato Famine?

Lester, please see below:

Mark A. wrote in post #19494319
I was fighting with my computer yesterday when I posted those images.
(My computer was responding erratically to my mouse's commands)

This link was to appear in my post, just as it does under each of those images when they are viewed on Flickr:

https://nationalfamine​way.ie/

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19565189
Grade I listed 16th-century country house, one of two heraldic devices flanking the entrance.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2p6q​EKc arch Eagle Statue A01 _30-09-23 by Lester W, on Flickr

I'll take your 2 and plus 2 Lester

Jonzjob wrote in post #19566701
I'll take your 2 and plus 2 Lester

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Well, 6 really because there are 4 like that one at the Main entrance to Stourhead House, Wilts. The spread eagle is the family crest. Nice pub by that name in the gardens too

Yes a few years since I have been there.

https://flic.kr/p/2k7y​skC

https://flic.kr/p/2k7C​gwU