Art & About – Part 3. Three Dimensional Art
A pictorial, three part, worldwide appreciation of outdoor visual treats. Part 3. 3D Art This final part of our three-part snapshot of outdoor art, deals with three-dimensional art that you’ll find in your travels around the world. We’ve excluded sculptures of famous people that are there to commemorate the lives of the great and good, as these are considered and commissioned pieces that simply mark the life of an...
Fairy-tale Copenhagen
So much more than a mermaid! When Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, commissioned the diminutive sculpture of Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Mermaid, its unlikely that he anticipated it becoming the definitive icon that identifies Copenhagen. As the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower and Tower Bridge are symbols of much greater entities, the Little Mermaid sits alone on a rock and gives little insight into the city she...