24 Weird & Wonderful Sculptures To Distract You From Your Angst

Artists have expressed and distracted us from our angst and frustration for as long as there have been artists. This is outdoor installation art on a grand (and often odd) scale!

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Walking to the Sky

Jonathan Borofsky

2006

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Stainless steel, 10 realistically painted life-size figures

100 feet tall

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Expansion

Paige Bradley

Bronze with Electricity

6 feet tall

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Feltépve - Ripped up

Hervé-Lóránt Ervin

Budapest

2014

Polystyrene

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J4

Bruno Catalano

Bronze

10 feet tall

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Kafka in the Sun

David Černý

Prague

2014

Stainless Steel, 42 independently moving layers

22.8 feet tall

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Headington Shark

John Buckley

London

1986

"Mixed Media, Brick, slates, wood, metal, polyester resin, glass, plaster, oil paint, lace curtaining and window boxes……."

25 feet tall

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Paradigm Shift

Zenos Frudakis

Washington, Pennsylvania

2007

Bronze

16 feet tall

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De Vaartkapoen

Tom Frantzen

Brussels

1985

Bronze

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Dada

Subodh Gupta

Stainless Steel

30x23x9 feet

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Trail Drive

Robert Temple Summers

Dallas, TX

1994

49 bronze steers and 3 trail riders

6 feet tall

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[ provisionaly untitled ]

Marco Cianfanelli

Plettenburg Bay

2015

stainless steel

11.5 feet tall

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First Generation

Chong Fahcheong

Singapore

2000

Bronze

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Vincent, Waiting for Alice

Keith Jellum  

Portland, Oregon

Hand Forged and Welded Bronze

8 feet tall

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War Mother

Charles Umlauf

1939

Austin Texas

Umlauf Gardens

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Babies

David Černý

Kampa

2014

Bronze

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From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes

(nicknamed The Sliding House)

Alex Chinneck

Margate

August 2013 (12 month installation on an abandoned property that was then removed for housing to be built)

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Freedom Sculpture

Zenos Frudakis

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2001

Bronze

20 feet long, 8 feet high

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The Watcher - 'Man at Work'

Viktor Hulík

1997

Bratislava

Bronze

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Transcendence

Keith Jellum  

Portland Oregon

Hand Forged and Welded Bronze, and Brick.

11 feet long

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The Knotted Gun

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd

1988

Turtle Bay, New York

Bronze

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Ray

Subodh Gupta

Stainless steel and stainless steel utensils

13x50x33 feet

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Planet

Marc Quinn

Singapore

2008

Painted bronze and steel

32 feet long and 13 feet high, but appears to hover over the ground as if impossibly suspended

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Questioning Mind

Michael Alfano

Massachusetts

2014

Bronze, in stone grotto

18" x 12" x 6" (without base)

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Love

Robert Indiana

Scottsdale , AZ

1999

Poly-chromed Aluminum

12x12x6 feet