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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.
As a photographer Sculpture by the Lakes in Dorset England is a fantastic place to visit. The sculptures are always moving to different locations enabling you to find new and fresh ways of photographing the stunning scuptures which are mianly by Somin Gudgeon, the owner of the lake and others. www.sculpturebythelakes.co.uk/
décidément Biot réserve beaucoup de surprises à ses visiteurs comme ici ces sculptures très colorées...
Sculpture by Swedish artist Maria Miesenberger, born 1965.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Miesenberger (website in Swedish)
Contemporary sculptures in a pre-historic landscape. Exhibition in 2021, Pilane, Sweden. When the British newspaper The Guardian appointed "10 of the best scupture parks in Europe", Pilane was one of them.
pilane.org (website also in English)
Durga and Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini) one of the great masterpieces of Early Chalukya Art. This cut out Scupture depicts eight-armed Durga savagley thrusting her trident and sword into Mahisha, who recoils backwards in shock.
Virupaksha Temple:
The Virupaksha temple, located to the immediate south of the Mallikarjuna temple, is the largest and most sophisticated of the monuments at Pattadakal.In inscriptions, it is referred to as "Shri Lokeshvara Mahasila Prasada", after its sponsor Queen Lokmahadevi, and is dated to about 740 CE. The temple is notable for its range, and quality, of construction exemplifying a well developed Dravidian architectural style, as well as the inscribed names of the artists beneath the panels they worked on.
As is common with other temples at Pattadakal, the Virupaksha temple was built facing east centred around a square garbha griya (sanctum), with a Shiva Linga, surrounded by a covered circumabulatory path (pradakshina patha). In front of the sanctum is an antarala with two small shrines within which are facing images of Ganesha and Parvati, in her Durga aspect as Mahishasuramardini killing the buffalo demon. The external Nandi pavilion is aligned on an east-west axis, as are the mandapa and antechamber.The temple site forms a rectangle consisting of fused squares bounded by walls, which are decorated with carvings.Within the compound are smaller shrines, of which there were once 32, based on the foundation footprint layout, but most have since been lost. The entrance leads to a mandapa with 18 columns (4-5-aisle-5-4, with a 4x4 set forming the inner mandapa and two leading to the darshana space).
A relief at Virupaksha temple
The tower above the sanctum is a three-storey pyramidal structure, with each storey bearing motifs that reflect those in the sanctum below. However, for clarity of composition, the artisans had simplified the themes in the pilastered projections and intricate carvings.[51] The third storey is the simplest, having only parapet kutas, a kuta roof with each face decorated with kudus – a structure common in later Dravidian architecture Hindu temples. A kalasha-like pot, found in festivals, social ceremonies and personal rituals such as weddings, crowns the temple. The top of this pot is 17.5 metres (57 ft) above the temple pavement, the highest for any pre-9th century South Indian temple. The sukanasa on the tower is large, exceeding half the height of the superstructure, to aid visibility from a distance.
The sanctum walls, and also those of the nearby mandapa space, are decorated with intricately detailed carvings. These carvings depict images of Shaivism, Vaishnavism, and Shaktism deities, and themes, such as Narasimha and Varaha (Vaishaivism), Bhairava and Nataraja (Shaivism), Harihara (half Shiva-half Vishnu), Lakulisa (Shaivism), Brahma, Durga, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and others. According to George Michell, the carvings on the walls and porch of the Virupaksha temple exterior are "vehicles for diverse sculptural compositions, by far the most numerous found on any Early Chalukya monument". Other than Hindu gods and goddesses, numerous panels show depict people either as couples, in courtship and mithuna, or as individuals wearing jewellery or carrying work implements.
A Virupaksha frieze showing two Panchatantra fables.
The temple has numerous friezes spanning a variety of topics such as, for example, two men wrestling, rishi with Vishnu, rishi with Shiva, Vishnu rescuing Gajendra elephant trapped by a crocodile in a lotus pond, scenes of hermitages, and sadhus seated in meditative yoga posture. Vedic deities such as Surya riding the chariot with Aruna, Indra on elephant and others are carved in stone.[57] A few depict scenes from the Ramayana such as those involving golden deer, Hanuman, Sugriva, Vali, Ravana and Jatayu bird, Sita being abducted, the struggles of Rama and Lakshmana. Other friezes show scenes from the Mahabharata, Krishna's playful life story in the Bhagavata Purana and the Harivamsa as well as fables from the Panchatantra and other Hindu texts.
The temple contains historically significant inscriptions that provide hints about the society and culture of 8th-century India. For example, one inscription mentions a grant to the "musicians of the temple" by the queen.
The famous Kailasha temple at Ellora Caves was modeled after this temple, although the Virupaksha temple was itself modeled after the Kailasanatha temple at Kanchipuram.
"Grandfather Cuts Loose The Ponies"
While driving around the Columbia Gorge, I climbed up a very steep and high hill to get a better view of the Wild Horses Monument in Vantage WA. Its a remarkable steel sculpture and the view from up there is breathtaking.
And here's another view:
For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2018/08/26/snaps-in-the-museum/
ராஜராஜனின் மகன் ராஜேந்திர சோழனின் பள்ளிப்படைக் கோவில் காஞ்சீபுரத்துக்கு அருகில் பிரமதேசம் என்ற இடத்தில் இருப்பதாகக் கருதுவர். பிரமதேசம் கோவிலில் உள்ள கல்வெட்டொன்று ராஜேந்திர சோழனின் மனைவி வீரமாதேவி என்பவர் தனது கணவர் ராஜேந்திர சோழன் இறந்தபின் அவர் இறந்த இடத்தில் நெருப்பை மூட்டி தீப்பாய்ந்து உயிர் விடுகிறாள். அரசி வீரமாதேவியின் மனம் சாந்தியடைய அவரது அண்ணன் இக்கோவில் பகுதியில் தண்ணீர் பந்தல் ஒன்றை வைக்கிறார். எனவே ராஜேந்திர சோழனின் பள்ளிப்படை காஞ்சீபுரத்திற்கு அருகில் இருந்துள்ளது. இக்கல்வெட்டு உள்ள பிரமதேசம் கோவில் பல்லவர் காலத்தில் அமைக்கப்பட்டதைக் கல்வெட்டு உறுதி செய்வதால் இக்கோவில் ராஜேந்திர சோழனின் பள்ளிப்படையாகக் கருத இயலாது.
Netherlands, Den Haag, De Monchyplein, Akbar, Dirk Bus ornaments.
Shot during a hghly enjoyable walk/talk with Akbar and Hndrk .
As I explained with this post , De Monchy urbanization was controversial. To appease the people in the neighbourhood the Dirk Bus created ornaments of the old City Hall were returned to the square, this time as scuptures in their own right.
Think "Chez Le Pere Lathuile" by Edouard Manet.
This scupture is by John Seward Johnson II (born 1930) is an American artist known for his trompe l'oeil painted bronze statues.
He is best known for his life-size bronze statues, which actually are castings of living people of all ages depicting them engaged in day-to-day activities. A large staff of technicians perform the fabrication.
This is part of one of the temple areas in Hampi. The golden period of the city, and empire, was the 14:th and 15:th centuries A.D.
Such a fantastic concern for sculptures, ornamentation and architecture!
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)