15 MOST CREATIVE AND AMUSING SCULPTURES IN THE WORLD

1. Running horses - Texas

The name of the statue - Running Horses

Constructed In 1984

Situated - Texas 

Artist - Robert Glen

Mustangs at Las Colinas is a breathtakingly realistic bronze sculpture by Robert Glen, that decorates Williams Square in Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. It is said to be the largest equestrian sculpture in the world. The mustangs were shipped by air from England to Irving, Texas, and after the intricate procedure of mounting the figures, the Mustangs of Las Colinas sculpture was dedicated on September 25, 1984.

2. Freedom - Philadelphia

The name of the statue - Freedom 

Constructed In 2001 

Situated -  Philadelphia 

Artist - Zeno Frudakis (U.S.)

“Freedom” is a public sculpture created by Philadelphia-based artist, Zeno Frudakis, who wanted to create something that regardless to background, everyone could relate to the idea of struggling to break through.

3. Hippos - Taipie - Taiwan

Not quite the Ashboro Zoo as far as the animals captivity, but very nice in cleanliness and presentation. Wrangling the hippo's! Giddy up HIPPO!

4. Jumping Kids - Singapore

Artist - Chong Fah Cheong

5. Maman (Spider)

Construted in - 1999
Situated - London
Artist - Lousie Bourgeois

Maman is a monumental steel spider, so large that it can only be installed out of doors, or inside a building of industrial scale. Supported on eight slender, knobbly legs, its body is suspended high above the ground, allowing the viewer to walk around and underneath it. Each ribbed leg ending in a sharp-tipped point is made of two pieces of steel, and attached to a collar above which an irregularly ribbed spiralling body rises, balanced by a similar sized egg sac below.

6. Transcendence”, a fish flying through a building - Portland -Oregon

Situated - Portland - Oregon

Artist - Keith Jellum

This 11 foot (3.3m) long sculpture made of hand forged and welded bronze is located in Portland Oregon (Stumptown). There is much in the way of art there and one cannot get a bad coffee, beer or glass of wine there.

7. Man At Work - Bratislava - Slovakia

If there is something famous about Bratislava it is its statues. If you have visited the city, or even more if you live here, you definitely must have a picture with these icons. These strange sculptures were created to give some flair to the town and an added touristic attractive to visitors.The most famous is Man At Work.There are different opinions about what he is doing there: cleaning the sewer, trying to look up girls’ skirts, just resting… Due to distracted drivers, this poor working man has lost his head twice. That’s why a road signal was placed next to him so it wouldn't happen again.

8. Anonymous Passer - Poland

A sculpture in Wroclaw, Poland designed by Jerzy Kalin to commemorate victims of the Communist regime.

"At the junction of Piłsudskiego and Świdnicka Streets, we come across a group of fourteen life-sized fossilized forms. It is a monument of anonymous passers-by, whose author is Polish artist Jerzy Kalin. Among them, we find people similar to ourselves. There is a man in a hat, a mother pushing a stroller, a man carrying a bicycle inner tube, a woman with an umbrella, an old lady with a bag full of shopping. The cast bronze figures seem to descend below the surface of the sidewalk separating the busy streets and come up on the other side. Seven people stand on one side of the road descending into the sidewalk and seven people ascend from the other side. The people closest to the curb are submerged in the sidewalk to the waist with only their heads and torsos exposed. Other figures are immersed only to the knees, while still others wade only their feet in the concrete slabs.

9. Carlos Drummond de Andrade - Rio De Janeiro - Brasil

10. Man In the Water - Stockholm - Sweden

One peculiar statue is one located in the water in front of the Parliament House. It is two pieces of floating statue really with on being the top of a man’s face protruding out of the water and the other being, what else, the man’s finger pointing out of the water. It was very strange. We walked to the National Museum from here and were going to enter but like the Royal Palace decided to pass since we've seen so many museums and palaces now they all start to blend together. Our plan was to go to the Vasa Museum, which was three stops away from the Royal Palace stop on the boat shuttle service ferry.

11. Man Stuck In The Wall - Paris - France

While wandering around Montmartre, you might be lucky enough to bump into this great statue/sculpture, Le Passe-Muraille (the Passer-Through-Walls). Le Passe-Muraille is the title of a story by Marcel Aymé about a man named Dutilleul who discovers that he can (you guessed it) walk through walls. The statue is situated in a place named after Marcel Aymé in beautiful Montmartre.

12. De Vaartkapoen - Brussels - Belgium

A statue by Tom Frantzen. A vaartkapoen is apparently someone born in Molenbeek (one of the municipalities of Brussels); that'd be the chap with his head sticking out of the manhole, not the policeman.

13. The Awakening - Washington dc

“The Awakening,” J. Seward Johnson Jr.’s 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth, is soon to leave a site near the National Mall that millions of tourists have visited since the work’s installation in 1980.

Although it stood for 27 years on public parkland at Hains Point in the southwest section of the city, “The Awakening” did not belong to the National Park Service. It was the property of the Sculpture Foundation, a group that promotes public art.

14. Die Badende - Hamburg

15. God father on the arch of heaven - Stockholm - Sweden 

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