vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5274/5867265311_27a8a8e089_b.jpg
Showed this thread to my girlfriend and she showed me a bunch of pictures of the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial and now I won't be able to go to sleep tonight.

http://meaton.net/Hammy/Salty.jpg
I think Salty the Seahorse deserves a place in this thread as well. Definitely the scariest statue I ever stumbled across baked to the gills at 3 in the morning.

Whose gills, your's or Salty's?

Holy shit that Holocaust one.

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton NJ

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_142917cropx.jpg

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_155554cropx.jpg

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_155541cropx.jpg

The first two by Seward Johnson, same guy who did the giant Marilyn Monroe and founder of Grounds for Sculpture

that third one is dooooope

It's King Lear. I just looked it up, and that one is by Seward Johnson too. Does not skirt the kitsch line like a lot of his other works do.

https://twitter.com/Kiha85Nanki/status/852133381613670400

deal with it

lol that's great

https://youtu.be/dZoFjZkns4Y?t=1m10s

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龜, where is that slope-covering statue you posted a month ago? I like it.

idk tbh

fengdu ghost city

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fengdhu-ghost-city

http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AFP_Getty-452224699.jpg

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PA-17862914.jpg

Ok that is cool as hell

I love the Kelpies. Even more so when they're lit up at night.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/326bd98a8f59e3bbcb0e6aa79b0dd0a7/tumblr_oo7qmrZUZd1sliee9o1_1280.jpg

Think there's another shot of this upthread from further away. Sendai Daikannon.

http://tailsofwonders.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sendai_Daikannon.jpg

i love both of these

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

http://i.imgur.com/iOF4f8o.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/f5O7Znb.jpg

Маска скорби "Mask of Sorrow" - a memorial in Magadan, dedicated to the memory of victims of political repression. The central monument is 15 meters high

Authors: sculptor - Ernst Neizvestny , architect - Kamil Kazayev.

The central sculpture of the memorial is a person's stylized face, from whose left eye tears flow in the form of small masks. The right eye is represented in the form of a window with a lattice. On the reverse side is a bronze sculpture of a weeping woman under a non-canonical crucifixion [1] . Inside the monument is a copy of a typical prison cell.

The back:

http://i.imgur.com/3CLCNOw.jpg

terrifying but i also kinda like it

too sad and haunting to be straight up terrifying imo

Yeah I rather like that one. It has shades of Zladislaw Beksinski

man that is cool as hell

Don't get me wrong, I love the fucking thing. But it freaks me out a little.

Ernst Neizvestny's art is well worth GISing btw

https://68.media.tumblr.com/5cf3b5b3cc438e9fbc48995ab99fb205/tumblr_ornxpxkDWJ1qz9ct7o1_1280.jpg

Is he holding a fire hose in his left hand

https://www.nowness.com/series/portrait-of-a-place/tsonjil-boldog?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=SM&utm_campaign=FB110717

when they're not terrifying gigantic statues can be very relaxing

Dignity is a sculpture on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River near Chamberlain, South Dakota. The 50-foot high stainless steel statue, by South Dakota artist laureate Dale Lamphere, depicts an Indigenous woman in Plains-style dress receiving a star quilt. According to Lamphere, the sculpture honors the culture of the Lakota and Dakota peoples who are indigenous to South Dakota.

https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20228454_10209724558890550_4362344120271813478_n.jpg?oh=5c998e30095da7facf38641d7378c142&oe=5A077A52

Almost looks like some Soviet era thing with the flattened planes and sharp angles but I kind of like it.

https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d6/13/497fa78322007c04b80e30b00292b30c0dbf/ofunamain/_w1700.jpgp

saw this one earlier this week, didn't know it was there until we turned a corner and it took my breath away

er here
https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d6/13/497fa78322007c04b80e30b00292b30c0dbf/ofunamain/_w1700.jpg

Prepare to be perplexed by the "spomenik," dozens of Brutalist/alien WWII monuments built from the '60s to the '80s all over Yugoslavia.

https://espionart.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/spomenik1.jpg?w=800

Check out the Spomenik Database for tons of pix.

Those look like fragments left behind by the Elder Gods.

Also, did anyone else on here get a little bit of a Dr. Doom vibe from the Dignity statue?

top right is like the evil stained glass sculptures in The Last Guardian

43 president head statues.

https://advent✧✧✧.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Presidents-Heads-Photo-credit-Laurie-Colli✧✧✧@dccitygirl-1180x✧✧✧.j✧✧

Story here: https://adventure.com/abandoned-presidents-heads/?utm_content=president+heads&utm_medium&utm_source=facebook

Oh well, pics at the link.

have we had this one yet?

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/08/a-gigantic-buddha-sculptures-emerges-from-the-top-of-a-hill-in-japan/

that is beautiful

the buddha silo

whoa that's amazing!

or you can go to his studio in Houston xp

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/david-adickes-sculpture-gallery

The replies to this tweet are well worth checking out for awesome statue action, even though plenty of them are neither terrifying nor gigantic:

What are your favorite public statues?

— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 17, 2017

http://www.colombia.travel/en/where-to-go/caribbean/barranquilla/activities/shakira-monument

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/3169096.jpg

Lucky that her statue is small and humble