cool new sculpture in Budapest

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2815475/Don-t-step-grass-Budapest-unveils-bizarre-oversized-sculpture-man-emerging-ground-historic-square.html

[pinboy3niner]

1. Cool! reminds me of J. Seward Johnson Jr.'s 'The Awakening'...

The Awakening

The Awakening sculpture is a five piece cast iron sculpture depicting the arousing of a bearded giant with a head, hand, outstretched arm, bent knee and foot arranged to suggest that the giant is breaking free from the earth. The sculpture was designed by J. Seward Johnson Jr. and was originally part of a city-wide public art exhibition in 1980 in Washington DC. Since it’s original installation at Hains Point, near the Jefferson Memorial, the sculpture had been on loan to the National Park Service.

The developer of National Harbor, the Peterson Companies, purchased the sculpture and moved it to National Harbor on February 20, 2008, to serve as the center piece of the new property that opened later that year. Today, the Awakening beckons thousands of visitors to his beach front home along the Potomac River to enjoy fun in the sand soaking up the sun on a relaxing day at the harbor.

http://nationalharbor.com/things-to-do-in-dc/the-awakening-sculpture/

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. love it

[NightWatcher]

6. Saw that in DC back in 94(?) near Jefferson Memorial and thought it was cool

I would not want to stumble upon it drunk or high however.

[LiberalEsto]

8. Oops, I posted mine before seeing your post

But the picture you posted is far better.

Great minds...

[Special Prosciuto]

3. It looks to me too much like

J. Edgar Hoover -- one of the last people I'd want to see emerging from the ground.

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[pinboy3niner]

4. That's going in your dossier, you know

[Special Prosciuto]

9. Nothing goes into my dossier. This idiot died in 1972. Long gone, I would say.

[trof]

5. Lady in the Lake

Elberta, Alabama

In January 2012, fiberglass sculpture wizard Mark Cline received a phone call from an employee of George Barber, a billionaire art patron. "Mr. Barber," said the voice, "is interested in you building a fifty-foot woman."

Lady in the Lake.

"Does he want her standing in a field?" asked Mark. "No," the employee answered. "He wants her floating."
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/36350

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. cool.. her knees look a bit big compared to her head but maybe that's due to the angle of the photo

[LiberalEsto]

7. That is awesome

It reminds me a little of Seward Johnson's The Awaening, which is now located in the National Harbor in Prince Georges County, MD.