Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

Anyone else think the Springsteen statue looks like Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett?

That Turing statue can't be all bad, it fooled this dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek

in fact you might say it ... passed the turing test

I'm guessing that most of the artists responsible for these monstrosities didn't have enormously glittering careers. The one obvious exception is Zurab Tereteli who, despite being one of the least talented people to ever pick up a chisel, has somehow made astronomical amounts of money and landed the position of President of the Russian Academy of the Arts.

Tear Of Grief upthread (offered to Jersey City who refused it) is the classic but he's got so many in his locker. This was originally meant to be Columbus and offered to the US who, again, rejected it so it was rebranded as Peter The Great.

http://i.imgur.com/RDsfs.jpg

His Balzac was meant to be a gift to the people of Paris who, yet again, said thank you but no thank you. It's in a small town on the south coast now.

http://i.imgur.com/CFp9I.jpg

Due to his relationship with the Luzhkovs, Moscow's littered with his appalling art.

holy crap. they're like overdecorated christmas trees of sadness. I don't even...

This frog eyed monstrosity just off the top Of Gt Portland St in London
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg

Close up
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/5697472022_423b5c79ff.jpg

http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9021/troymcclure3ec.jpg

I love how if you Google Image search "Pat Tillman Statue", ilxor.com is on the first page with this pic:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7076/nbfs2xr2.gif

Wonder how many people end up on this thread from that...

Last month, I drove through Council Bluffs and passed through this foreboding gauntlet of spires, which I can only assume is a tribute to the incarcerated men and women of Iowa who risk life and limb to remove garbage from the side of I-80.

http://www.publicartandpractice.com/images/24thstbridge_large_18.jpg

sounds correct

It's sort of difficult to see these statues, but they used to piss me off so bad when I worked in that part of town.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3627174592_f3e474e259.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4611974340_ed3a823960.jpg

so much butts

unintentionally homoerotic sports statutes

I don't think I would be erotic for these statues if I was a homo.

That's the Federal Reserve Board in pic 2.

a lot of these seem pretty successful to me. i mean, the pat tillman statue is obviously horrid (as are that insanely godawful 9/11 memorial, "martin luther king," hendrix & mr. rogers, lolocaust mem, texas footballers, malformed kennedy, overpass atrocities) but many of the others are far more funny, strange and/or intriguing than most public sculpture.

love the face-making mounted rider, the christ of the ozarks (amazing!), the polish WWII memorial, queen charlotte, bat-signal, astor place cube, anatomically correct fattys, prague weirdness, crazy guy with snakes & a plane. even the baseballers are okay. their worst crime is blandness.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOrAL1V5Jg/THtyB9MTmwI/AAAAAAAAHEI/TJJS_DaWu5w/s1600/6.JPG

that, otoh, is some hideous shit

Speaking of baffling "gateway" sculputres on freeways, this is what greets visitors entering melbourne from the airport road:

http://i.pbase.com/o6/99/380799/1/33201038.P7Bxx7vU.CITYLINK.jpg

The I AM A GIANT CHEESE STICK AND I WILL CRUSH U sculpture.

frankly baffled

I... like some of these

?

http://i.imgur.com/RDsfs.jpg

like okay yes this is totally ridiculous and looks like something from a Terry Gilliam movie but I find that kind of endearing

contenderizer: I do like the snakes/plane/man sculpture i posted btw! I just think it is a bizarre thing to have in front of a city hall. And on googling about it yesterday I found an article where the sculptor himself apparently said "thats still there? I made that as a joke".

http://www.seattleoutdoorart.com/images/EpicenterBuildingD.jpg

less public sculpture than gaudi fail, but still atrocious

and shakey OTM about the endearing ridiculousness of tereteli's columbus (like his balzac, too)

WOuld totally live in that apartment block!

it's certainly cheerful! http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Jim's statue heavily influenced by Bjork in the Big Time Sensuality video I think.

I don't think it's uglier than the Pat Tillman statue. Hell, it ain't even the ugliest MLK statue.

But.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1484/bildesz.jpg

That is one angry looking peacemaker. Looks like if you piss him off, he's going to come out of that brick and whack you across the head with his rolled-up paper. His coming out of the mountain, leaving the two sides of it behind, either reminds me of one of the Buddhas that got blown up by the Taliban or some sort of weird Wile E. Coyote episode they took off the air in the early 70s.

And least his hands aren't up like Han Solo's.

ha

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8.VQXSUYD7C9EvMj_GJ1qQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MzA7cT04NTt3PTM5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9b408463c3b78212f60e6a706700e077.jpg

"Hey, HEY, Josh Turbin! You know better than to run in the halls like that."

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/F4YEzCjIHJp2TfmCZwznDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTM7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/64035c1fc3ba8212f60e6a706700818e.jpg

"Stay back from the gate. The band's not coming out for another 45 minutes."

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/t6gusUqhe0Zf4kwaCbEzGQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MDQ7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/963ca097d8299a12f60e6a7067001875.jpg

"Swear this train gets later every morning."

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Qf4xeTy5qbuF4Z4Zken0kQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjE7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/0aed628cd8299a12f60e6a7067007765.jpg

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TDDZsPXtVpup6CL9JkJsCQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MzA7cT04NTt3PTQyMQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/23e0d082d7239512f60e6a706700cda3.jpg

"No! Watch the defense! SPREAD! SPREAD! Get away from that guy, Scotty. A FOUL? Godammit…"

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mTeaMQOlxNDlJejpNNuVwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/gettyimages.com/media-preview-held-martin-luther-20110822-095715-486.jpg
And through the window in the wall, come streaming in on sunlight wings,
A million bright ambassadors of morning…

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.7nFf6ytKP70vWem5QC.iw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/513007f3c3b08212f60e6a706700652e.jpg

"Makin' fun of my statue on ILX, tsk tsk. I don't see any North Korean statues that are so goddamm funny on this thread, now do I?"

That statue is actually a fine likeness, but yeah... wow.

this isn't ugly, it's hysterical & great but i didn't know where else to put it.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/erica/817/bunny01.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/erica/817/add02.jpg

i love it!

btw talking of giant stuffed rabbits...

http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/visual/whatshot/shaquille-oneal-statue-1.jpg

http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics32/800/VM/VMVIDXANIDJDSKF.20110909004747.jpg

If I lived in Baton Rouge, I know what my Halloween costume would be this year.

That's pretty rad.

Statues look a bit odd when they're action shots in the first place (see OP), but when you start adding little props like one-quarter of a backboard that looks like a broken piece of plywood or the hardwood opening up like bamboo sticks, I think you're taking your subject into a much more surreal place than intended.

But it's LSU, not Statuary Hall. It's not like they could feature him making a free throw.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2006/06/12/2003057156.jpg

Not an actual statue right? One of those "guys"?

in front of baltimore's penn station
http://www.writingcentralbaltimore.com/wcb_spring10/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=male_female_statue.jpg

and by night
http://uncubedmedia.com/Vision/images/20080619153822_penn_station_statue.jpg