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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 22:15:58 GMT
The wildlife one is quite beautiful especially with the snow. Here are 2 statues that were gifts to the City of New Orleans from France. Both are located in the Vieux Carre. This is a fountain although, was not functioning as such this day. The plaque says that it was a gift from Jacques Chirac.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 6:16:55 GMT
That fountain is one of the famous Wallace fountains that can be seen all over Paris. They were financed by a British benefector who regretted that there was no place to get proper drinking water in the streets of Paris. I came across an old rusty one in the streets of Dunkerque also.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2010 7:14:40 GMT
Any idea what the grouping of women represents, and why France would choose that particular statue group as a gift? Surely the smaller piece in the US is not meant as a copy of a water fountain, so the water fountain group must have a particular meaning.
Kerouac, you say the fountain is rusty, but it looks to be of copper, maybe with a coating over it which has mostly worn off. I wonder if that is mostly an accumulation of lime deposits on the face.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 7:34:07 GMT
The Wiki link I put in says this about the women: The four caryatids represent kindness, simplicity, charity and sobriety. Each one is different from her sisters, by the way she bends her knees and by where her tunic is tucked into her blouse. The one in Dunkerque was extremely corroded, as you can see on the closeup of the face. Perhaps "rusty" is not the correct word for something that is corroded -- but also the traditional color of these fountains is green. Nobody wants to drink from a rusty looking fountain.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 19, 2010 7:52:34 GMT
Well, aged copper develops verdigris, which is certainly the color of the New Orleans statue. Here are two from the church in the ex Marquesado neighborhood of Oaxaca. I've been unsuccessful in finding a date, but because of where the church is, it must be one of the older ones in the city. Also, the style of the statues is very much of the early colonial period. That's a terrible repair job on the arm of the first statue.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 8:20:46 GMT
They are not copper. They are cast iron.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 10:21:11 GMT
This one is indeed cast iron not copper. These statues can be found abroad in several countries,the one in New Orleans being the only one in the US. Although,meant to be a drinking fountain,this is clearly not the intent of the one in NOLA, given the fact that it is placed amid a flower bed,with no access to as a water fountain.
The artist who designed these statues is Charles Auguste LeBourg,commissioned by Englishman benefactor,Richard Wallace.
Jacques Chirac donated this statue to NOLA in 1985 to commemorate the NOLA World's Fair Exhibition.
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Post by Jazz on Feb 20, 2010 14:30:37 GMT
Au vieux chene, the old oak. This beautiful wall statue is at 69 rue Mouffetarde over top was was once a bar in Paris during the revolution. There has been erosion over the last 100 years. Months after I returned home, I found that Atget had loved it as well. He took this in 1911.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2010 21:18:27 GMT
Here is a standard Wallace fountain in Paris.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2010 22:08:11 GMT
Even though this statue is obviously rather recent, I saw in a newspaper that it was renovated last year since it is obviously subject to aging problems. It is just a street level normal "window" of an ordinary residential building.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 24, 2010 22:16:18 GMT
That's wonderful ~ really clever and witty!
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Post by lola on Feb 25, 2010 1:37:06 GMT
These are all wonderful. I love the drinking water benefactor.
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Post by bjd on Feb 25, 2010 8:20:21 GMT
Kerouac's guy in #70 reminded me of this one in Bogota. It's at the level of the 2nd floor, just under the roof.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 6:11:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2010 20:07:16 GMT
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Post by Jazz on Mar 31, 2010 21:17:43 GMT
On the terrace of a tiny old cafe in Montmartre.
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Post by lola on Apr 1, 2010 1:22:49 GMT
These are great.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2010 2:49:20 GMT
Yes,they are wonderful!
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Post by gusm on Apr 1, 2010 4:12:26 GMT
La Passe Muraile from the short story, in Montmarte ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ St Francis extends a hand on the plaza Santa Fe NM
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Post by Jazz on Apr 1, 2010 17:15:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 15:23:36 GMT
In front of the City Hall:
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Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 18:34:17 GMT
So much variety! Here's one that honors one of Montana's finest statesmen, Mike Mansfield, with his wife and chief advocate, Maureen. He was raised in Montana and would have become a miner in Butte had his wife not encouraged him to go to college and get into politics (before that was a dirty word). Besides serving 5 terms in the House of Representatives (1952-62) and 5 Senate terms, achieving the rank of Majority Leader under LBJ, he also was US ambassador to Japan from 1977-1988. He was a fine example of "reaching across the aisle" bi-partisanism. He must be rolling in his grave to know what a circus the congress has become.... bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000113
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 20:12:56 GMT
Those must have taken some time to make. Are they made of metal?
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Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 20:38:01 GMT
I believe they are cast bronze, perhaps using the "lost wax" method. The artist makes a wax model, then makes a plaster mold, then molten metal is poured inside, melting out the wax, resulting in a bronze sculpture.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2010 20:41:38 GMT
Raw sex!
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Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 20:53:07 GMT
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Post by imec on Apr 2, 2010 21:58:30 GMT
Was there a single adolescent boy of the 70's who didn't have a crush on her...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2010 16:57:00 GMT
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Post by imec on Apr 4, 2010 16:58:17 GMT
He wasn't an adolescent in the 70's - not even the 1870's...
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 4, 2010 17:02:15 GMT
No, but he does look like he's ogling someone.
The Mary Tyler Moore statue is ................... interesting. ( ;D)
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