Sunday, March 11, 2007

Rotterdam's hideous statues

Redefining art as we know it.

Nick hangin out with hungry hippo

Puff the Magic Dragon (I think the designer of this statue knows this song all too well). Oh and the facial expressions of the people in the background perfectly capture the general response to this statue.

All hail hello kitty!

Rotterdam has a lot of strange art around. Actually, no, if it were just strange that would be cool.. but they are actually mostly really hideous. The one below is a perfect example. A large obelisk type statue with gold plastic looking thunderbolts poking out and a hello kitty sitting on the top. And that's not even where it finishes! Around the bottom there are 4 or 5 animals/made-up superhero's made of stone sitting on thrones. There was a hippo, a dragon, a strange spectacled superhero... and... that's all I remember. Anyway, it made for great entertainment value!!

0 comments: