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9.3 x 8.9 x 10.2 m Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois . The sculpture, which depicts a spider , is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (9.27 x 8.91 x 10.24 metres). [ 1 ]
It opened on 21 March 2015. [1] It is located next to Spinball Whizzer, in an area which was previously part of Adventure Land. The ride is manufactured by Italian amusement ride company Zamperla and is themed around the children's television programme, The Octonauts, which is aired on CBeebies. It is a small family coaster, with a height of 6. ...
[1] [21] The statue can also been seen from nearby housing estates and commercial areas. [33] The statue viewed from a train on the nearby East Coast Mainline. The statue can be accessed by road via the A167 and a nearby car and coach park allows people to stop and view the sculpture up close. It also be reached on foot by a number of footpaths ...
Completed in 1846, the enormous scale of the 40 ton, 30 feet (9 m) high monument resulted in its removal in 1883, and the following year it was transported to Aldershot where it still stands near the Royal Garrison Church. A statue of Wellington by the sculptor Thomas Milnes at Woolwich Arsenal, which now stands in Wellington Park (1848) [10]
The Alma Mater, a bronze statue by sculptor Lorado Taft, is a beloved symbol of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The 10,000-pound statue depicts a mother-figure wearing academic robes and flanked by two attendant figures representing "Learning" and "Labor", after the university's motto "Learning and Labor."
Discussing the work in her 2012 article "Sculpting Irishness: a discussion of Dublin's commemorative statues of Oscar Wilde and Phil Lynott" for Sculpture Journal, Sarah Smith writes: Another distinction is the figure's facial expression, which, disrupting the realism of the figure, might be described as a rather contorted sneer.
Statues, also known as Red Light, Green Light in North America, and Grandma's/Grandmother's Footsteps or Fairy Footsteps in the United Kingdom is a popular children's game, often played in different countries. There are variations of play throughout different regions of the world.
[a] It is 1.25 metres (4.1 ft) tall [2] and weighs 175 kilograms (385 lb). [ 3 ] Based on the 1837 fairy tale of the same name by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen , the small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and has been a major tourist attraction since its unveiling in 1913.