After poking around, I found out it is a contemporary sculpture by Josep Maria Subirachs. He is most famous for the sculptures he designed and created for Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona:
Cricifisso
by Flickr/-siby- Please reference the original Creative Commons license
by Flickr/-siby- Please reference the original Creative Commons license
Roman Knight
by Flickr/stockquant Pls ref original Creative Commons license
by Flickr/stockquant Pls ref original Creative Commons license
I actually like his concept sketches more:
I'll leave you with this fascinating work called Relief Saint-Georg-Theseus.
Photo by Canaan. Please reference original Creative Commons licenseThe woman pictured is the princess Ariadne. Overall photo and explanation of the work is at Subirachs' official site (which is really hard to use). I also found this blog post with another photo of the work and some other Subirachs photos. Love the name of the blog: Chronicles of an Academic Groupie!
2 comments:
I particularly like the Relief Saint-Georg-Theseus and the other pieces featured in the blog post of Academic Groupie. I lived in Spain for a few years in my late teens. The Catalan culture around Barcelona is quite different from the mainstream Spanish culture. I loved listening to their own versions of flamenco etc.
Kimberley (from MB)
Hi Kimberley,
Someday, I will actually get to Spain. Look forward to checking out the differences in person!
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