Our cities are full of majestic monuments, stunning sculptures, and artistic statues, each having a story to tell. Thousands of them have been made, but only a few are extraordinary and picture-worthy. That’s why our readers set out to find the world’s most creative statues and sculptures, which add color and emotion to the most boring areas of the cities.
For the last two weeks, A&D fans from around the globe have submitted pictures of the best sculptures. We added a couple of our pictures and made the final list of the most creative sculptures and statues worldwide. We have received more than 160 pictures and hundreds of votes, which resulted in this excellent list. (H/T)
01. Mustangs By Robert Glen, Las Colinas, Texas, USA
02. Expansion By Paige Bradley, New York, USA
03. The Monument Of An Anonymous Passerby, Wroclaw, Poland
Anonymous
04. Salmon Sculpture, Portland, Oregon, USA
05. People Of The River By Chong Fah Cheong, Singapore
06. The Shoes On The Danube Bank by Can Togay & Gyula Pauer, Budapest, Hungary
07. The Knotted Gun, Turtle Bay, New York, USA
08. Break Through From Your Mold By Zenos Frudakis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
09. Black Ghost, Klaipeda, Lithuania
10. Les Voyageurs, Marseilles, France
11. Nelson Mandela, South Africa
12. De Vaartkapoen, Brussels, Belgium
13. Cattle Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
14. Spider, Tate Modern, London, UK
15. Hippo Sculptures, Taipei, Taiwan
16. Sinking Building Outside State Library, Melbourne, Australia
Anonymous
17. Iguana Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18. Man At Work, Bratislava, Slovakia
19. Mihai Eminescu, Onesti, Romania
20. A Scene From The World War With Real-Size Statues, Eceabat, Turkey
21. Man Hanging Out, Prague, Czech Republic
22. Kelpies, Grangemouth, UK
Andrew Milligan
23. Rundle Mall Pigs, Adelaide, Australia
Sculpture by: Marguerite Derricourt | Image Credit: Source
24. The Unknown Official, Reykjavik, Iceland
25. The Shark, Oxford, UK
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