Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ronaldo+statue+erected&tbm=nws

https://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Love-Lucy-Get-Rid-of-this-Statue/337376016351514

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Would not have gotten this one in 1000 tries.

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http://i.imgur.com/CJ0a3sU.jpg

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Vaclav Havel? No, but good guess… you got the ''post- cold war politician'' part right!

Hey man he brought home the bacon to Palm springs

that lucy statue is legit terrifying

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Brian Terry continues to be honored after his murder while protecting the United States border.

A statue was erected in his honor at the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Base on Bisbee, Arizona last week.

The statue depicts Terry carrying a fellow soldier on his shoulders and is based off a photo that family members called “iconic” in nature.

I think we've come around full circle.

Herman Munster, war hero

I have mixed feelings.

http://i.imgur.com/va0jw4K.jpg

oh god

hahaha I wonder if my brother with paraplegia would lol if I sent this too him with txt "I FOUND UR GRAVESTONE BRO!" Pretty sure he would then post it on FB.

and then my mom would see it and I would catch hell

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/01/06/world/06CHINAMAO01/06CHINAMAO01-master675.jpg

Saw this on fb, meming is not mine. Weird/funny more than ugly.

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Pat Tillmann lives on... in dog form.

https://asunow.asu.edu/20161109-sun-devil-life-unleashing-tillman-asus-new-police-dog

http://i.imgur.com/805sXa5.jpg

Cost: $35,000

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Fellatio pic in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

Statue of broadcaster Wogan unveiled in native Limerick https://t.co/OzmoeW0AQq pic.twitter.com/ilcE1bT1EG

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) June 24, 2017

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Is that a statue or a dude in a costume?!

This thread's reminded me of this statue, which I guess isnt that ugly per se, but every time we drive past it, my bf mutters darkly (in the voice of the statue) "I'm gunna fuckin kill you and everyone you care about!"

https://melbourneartcritic.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/dsc05381.jpg

THE BROS

Cat in the Hat resembles Terry Wogan statue.

Or vice-versa, who tf knows, we're through the looking glass here people.

Trayce, have you seen this monstrosity? http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8590026-3x2-940x627.jpg
Admittedly it's more who it's commemorating that's the problem here...

shoulda carved back the torso & hung a set of swings off his ears

I saw Tony Abbott on the beach once, coming in from a surf - he has that stupid duck waddle walk even when there are no cameras around.

Terry Wogan statue looks a bit disconcertingly like Nick Cave

Ha yeah I havent in person but I gather that went up in the avenue of PMs thingy in Ballarat a while ago. Euugh.

Why is Don Revie wearing a dog collar?

I had heard about these awful, ugly statues, but had never bothered to look them up. GOOD LORD.

http://i.imgur.com/mPHKEvd.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OHyiKZZ.jpg

They used to sit in front of the U.S. Capitol until they were removed finally in 1958.

And when I say "in front of the U.S. Capitol," I do not mean in some obscure clearing behind a tree on the lawn or somewhere. I mean

http://i.imgur.com/7Ge8iqK.png

^ Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, 1861.

Not creepy at all.

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

'Hey, we just got here. Did you guys find a place yet?

y. Pretty high up. Good view.

Cool. Where you guys at?

Uhhhhh

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"The Rescue" is the name of the frontiersman statue. It's got a neat Paul Harvey/Raiders of the Lost Ark twist:

In 1976, a crane accidentally dropped The Rescue while moving it to a new Smithsonian storage area in Maryland, thus reducing it to several fragments. Today they lie next to Discovery, also said to be in poor condition.

In an unusual collaboration between the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the pioneer's dog from The Rescue was exhibited during a temporary show, “Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor's Drawings” in late 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescue_(statue)

amazing. 1958 sounds about right.

It does, even though 1958 doesn't strike me as the most enlightened year.

Reminds me of the Confederate flag flying on the Capitol grounds in South Carolina. "What if we took it down, would that make it all better?"

yeah this shit is baked into the country we'll be removing problematic statues and flags for a long time

On a pure artistic level, though, the statues are fine.

that's amazing. i had no idea.

In 1939, a joint resolution submitted to—but not passed by—the U.S. House of Representatives recommended that The Rescue be "...ground into dust, and scattered to the four winds, that no more remembrance may be perpetuated of our barbaric past, and that it may not be a constant reminder to our American Indian citizens…"

sounds like they were semi-woke by 1939

pplains you gotta bundle that up in a nice 4-pic tweet package so i can retweet the shit out of it

gah

I know this country was laid out on this crap. Slavery. Manifest Destiny. Suffrage.

But damn, putting these two on either side of the U.S. Capitol's front door? They couldn't find any lions instead?

Artistic level: Columbus one's the lesser of the two. Head looks out of proportion, which may be due to the angle. The "cowering native" looks cartoony. Reminds me too much of the Nathaniel Forrest statue above.

The David Bowie statue unveiled in Aylesbury yesterday is really quite hideous. pic.twitter.com/D3HK9sEZh7

— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) March 26, 2018

sweet jesus this is hellish

oh my god

Sculptors have forgotten how to model attractively lifelike human figures. It was never easy, but now it seems to be impossible.

he should have stuck with a single figure. kind of looks like one of those crazy 70s movie posters with a million people on them.

then again maybe the human figure isn't the problem here. even the disk with the album covers looks like shit.