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"Sitzende" from Wladimir & Natalia Rudolf; oak and oil color, 2012.
One of ten sculptures at the rivers Oertze and Wietze in Lower Saxony / Germany
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchi_Kailasanathar_Temple
The kanchi Kailasanathar temple is the oldest structure in Kanchipuram.[1] Located in Tamil Nadu, India, it is a Hindu temple in the Dravidian architectural style. It is dedicated to the Lord Shiva, and is known for its historical importance. The temple was built from 685-705AD by a Rajasimha (Narasimhavarman II) ruler of the Pallava Dynasty. The low-slung sandstone compound contains a large number of carvings, including many half-animal deities which were popular during the early Dravidian architectural period.[2] The structure contains 58 small shrines which are dedicated to various forms of Shiva. These are built into niches on the inner face of the high compound wall of the circumambulatory passage.[3] The temple is one of the most prominent tourist attractions of the city.[4]
The temple has retained the Pallava architecture in its original stylized form with influence of the later styles developed by the Chola Dynasty and Vijayanagara Emperors.[3] It is of stone built architecture unlike the rock cut architecture built into hallowed caves or carved into rock outcrops as in Mahabalipuram. The tall gopuram (tower) is to the left and the temple complex is to the right.[12] The temple's foundations are made of granite, which could withstand the weight of the temple, while the superstructure, including the carvings, are all made of sandstone. Initially, only the main sanctuary existed with pyramidal vimana and a detached mandapa (main hall)
The ling-term exhibition The City of K. Franz Kafka and Prague was opened in Prague in during the summer of 2005. Frantz Kafka was born in Prague on 3July 1883, died in a sanatorium at Kierling on 3June 1924,, and was buried in the New Jewisk Cemetery in Prague - Strašnice on 11 June. The exhibition opened in Barcelona in 1999, in 2002-2003 it transferred to the Jewish Museum in New York, and in 2005 it opened in Prague, in the unique Hergetova cihelna [Lesser Town] bank of the river Vltava [the Moldau] .
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The ling-term exhibition The City of K. Franz Kafka and Prague was opened in Prague in during the summer of 2005. Frantz Kafka was born in Prague on 3July 1883, died in a sanatorium at Kierling on 3June 1924,, and was buried in the New Jewisk Cemetery in Prague - Strašnice on 11 June. The exhibition opened in Barcelona in 1999, in 2002-2003 it transferred to the Jewish Museum in New York, and in 2005 it opened in Prague, in the unique Hergetova cihelna [Lesser Town] bank of the river Vltava [the Moldau] .
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Salute!!
.....living sand scuptures on Puerto Vallarta's Malecon, Promenade.
The one to the right shifted his eyes, looked at me and lifted his glass oh so slowly to toast me ((:
Amazing SAND CAKING in the large view, just click on the image!
Imagine to cover your face and hands with this (probably some white glue? and sand) every day, step into these stiff clothes and sit for hours at length, motionless in the hot sun..... to make your jiving, wow!!!! Must be pretty painful and certainly very bad for your health!!
Puerto Vallarta - Bahia de Banderas - Mexico
This scupture, carved in cedar then cast in bronze, is a tribute to the ancestral connection between this area's aboriginal and Portugese communities.
Portugese Joe Silvey was a resourceful pioneer who came to BC from Portugal's Azores Islands around 1860. Born in Musqueam, pqalten:at is of Musqueam and Squamish descent and was Silvey's first wife. She is shown wearing dentalium shell headdress and shawl, befitting a high born matriarch from the traditional territories of this area. pqalten:at died quite young from tuberculosis. Silvey then married Kwatleematt (Lucy), a Shisha71h (Sechelt) First Nation matriarch. Kwatleematt is depicted wearing a traditional woven cedar hat.
Both women hold fishing net needles for creating and mending nets and mat creasers used to create sharp edges on cattail and tule mats. The seine nets at Joe's feet and the whaling harpoon in his hand refer to how the Silvey family and local First Nations made their living. The 11 Pacific salmon represent the Silvey children.
The three figures stand beneath a 14-foot cod lure topped with a raptor hea representing both the eagle and the acor, an Azorean raptor. The three panels of the lure stand for the three local First Nations: the Musqueam, Squamis, and Tsleil-Waututh. The intricate mosaic tile base is made from stone imported from Portugal where it is used to create black and white patterns known as Calcada Portuguesa (Portuguese pavement). It was lade by Azorean master stonemason Carlos Menezes and designed by Luke Marston.
The Silvey family lived here, at Brockton Point in a community of First Nation, Portugese and Hawaiian people. Later the family moved to Reid Island.
This sculpture was created by the artist Luke Marston a great-great grandson of Portugese Joes Silvey and Kwatleematt (Lucy). He is one of thousands of descendants of the Coast Salish and Portugese communities whose strong contributions and lasting legacy have helped build the province of British Columbia.
some people believe that it is here that Great Rajendra Chola died and the present temple is pallipadai temple of Rajendra. But it is denied by historians. His wife Veerama Devi committed sati ( உடன்கட்டை) in this place. The sanctum walls have the Pallava and Chola period inscriptions. This beautiful temple is maintained by Archaeological Survey of India .
One must visit here to see the architectural beauty of thousand year old structure. Presiding deity is Chandramouliswarar.
இந்திய தொல்லியல் ஆய்வுத் துறையின் பாதுகாப்பில் உள்ள சந்திரமவுலீஸ்வரர் கோயிலில் 92 கல்வெட்டுகள் உள்ளன. இவற்றில் காலத்தால் முற்பட்டது பல்லவ மன்னன் கம்பவர்மனின் கி.பி.866-ம் ஆண்டைச் சேர்ந்த கல்வெட்டு.
I know it's different from me... and I hope it will always be different... never standing still, creating and seeking new ways of expressing myself...
TIO...
This is a metal horse scupture that is in Ojai's Rotary Park. The park once was home to a historic railroad station. I couldn't get a good photo from this side last time due to the lighting in the morning, so we came back in the afternoon to take this one.
1. For Dali, the egg is precisely The Christian symbol of the resurrection of Christ and the emblem of purity and perfection. The appearance and minerality of the egg evokes a symbolism dear to Dalí and his colleagues, that of previous life, intrauterine and re-birth.
2. Considered and reconsidered by artists and writers alike, the lobster has been a surrealist mascot, a fashion accessory, and is now entering a new phase as an emblem of right wing ideology. An enduring but mutable symbol, it has stood for extravagance, maritime nostalgia and sexual innuendo. There is, however, an unavoidable violence to the lobster: “He is the old hunting dog of the sea”, writes Anne Sexton in her poem Lobster. Hefty claws and an armoured body hint at the creature’s aggressive tendencies, but, of course, violence is folded into how we cook them, too. Sexton observes that we “take his perfect green body / and paint it red”, a reminder that the scarlet shell we so often see in the visual arts is the result of violent human intervention: it’s only after boiling (them alive) that a lobster changes colour.
Tarrawarra Estate is a winery in the Yarra Valley. Comprising cellar door, restaurant and Art Gallery it also has exquisite gardens.
For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/a-quick-sculpture-idea/
elle sculpte avec le bois , elle sculpte avec ...le temps /
Sculpture of "nature*" :
she sculptures with the wood, she sculptures with... time
My hubby and I went to Minneapolis last weekend to go for a walk along the lakes like we used to do when we lived there in Uptown, and as we were approaching the city a BIG storm was about to unfold and I asked him to pull into the Walker Art Center's Scupture garden so I could take some pics. Just as we got there the sky was a vibrant red and the clouds were increasing in their darkness. I got one shot in and then the heavens opened up and it began to pour.
We never got our full walk around the lake like we wanted, but we did drive around and spent a lovely time just being with each other.....and I got this photo out of it.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
From the Denver Botanic Gardens. The scupture is "Sacred Rain Arrow" by Allan Houser.
After my wide and I went to the Denver Botanic Gardens during the day, I went back that night with this shot in mind. As it did each night we were there, the sky cooperated.
The gardens were very cool, but the scultpures from the Allan Houser collection stole the show.
A greek scupture, art from the past and the city of Athens, both living in and out of the new Museum of the Acropolis in Greece....watching economy crisis (and not only) , people and lives.
Bramadesam is a temple of Chola period.
One must visit here to see the architectural beauty of thousand year old structure. Presiding deity is Chandramouliswarar.
Few believe Bramadesam temple is pallipadai temple pf Great Rajendra Chola. But historians refute this claim.
The State Museum of Visual Arts in Shushi, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, displays paintings and hosts cultural events. A sculpture garden is behind the museum.
The temple is on the outskirts of the city of Chidambaram. Legend says that the goddess Kali (a form of Parvati) moved here after losing to the god Shiva in the celestial dance contest.
It was an argument that who is superior, either Shiva or his wife Parvati. In order to resolve thus, they performed a dance program at Chidambaram in front of Vishnu, Brahma and other deities. While they were playing dance, Shiva was about to be defeated.[1]
Shiva performed the Urdhva Tandava posture, i.e. raising one leg above his head and challenged Parvati to replicate it. Due to her modesty and shyness, Parvati refused and agreed her defeat.
Parvati in anger assumed her ferocious form Kali and left Chidambaram (Thillai) and settled outside the town borders. Thus, she is worshipped as Thillai Kali here. Her anger was pacified by Brahma by chanting the Veda and praising her.
Kali was pleased and assumed a benign form with four heads similar to Brahma and known as Thillai Amman (Mother of Thillai) or Brahma Chamundeeswari.
Please look at minute details of scuptures in the gopuram. Simply marvelous.
Chemistry teaching and Research Building at Monash University. Architect: Lyons 2015
Scupture - Built Unbuilt Unbuildable : James Angus. Commissioned by the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Built Unbuilt Unbuildable was conceived by celebrated Australian artist James Angus. The structure of the work riffs off the cage-life fused-ring structure of the Buckminsterfullerene C60 carbon molecule, known colloquially as a ‘bucky ball’. Resembling a soccer ball, ‘bucky balls’ are considered one of the most stable of molecules because of their beautiful and intricate symmetry. In Angus’ artwork, the 'bucky ball' form has been appropriated and corrupted—instead of a shell like shape, the spherical structure is constructed from a series of steel pipe cones protruding from a centre.
Inspired by its proximity to the Faculty of Science on Clayton campus, Built Unbuilt Unbuildable borrows from the architecture of the new Green Chemical Futures facility, and is intended to be a celebration of engineering, a discipline devoted to the invention of structures, systems, materials and processes.