Mini Challenge #229: Public Art

pegelli

Mini Challenge #229: Public Art

The next mini-challenge will focus on another popular subject "Public Art" and I'm looking at it in the broadest sense possible, it can be a statue, sculpture, painting, graffiti, museum piece et. etc. It can be old or new, include other spectators or not, as long as it's publicly accessible (entrance fee is fine). Even architecture can be in, as long as it's special and artful. I hope this is clear, if not just ask

This challenge will run for ~2 weeks - from today until Wednesday, July 13, 18:00 (6pm) Central European Daylight Time.

Good luck everyone, I'm looking forward to your entries.

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2. The host supplies a topic and YOU POST 1-3 IMAGES. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
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6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.

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7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!

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A few examples (but the subject can be broader then what's shown here):

sarasphotos

Pieter, what an interesting and fun subject!

travelways

Very nice and great subject

pegelli

Thanks ladies, I hope for many entries. Pls. make my judging difficult

travelways

I start

1. Art gallery in Bocas del Toro, Panama



2. Mount Rushmore, S. Dakota



3. Duplicate - Mural art in Gatineau (the French side of Ottawa), Canada

Photografeeling

Clown eating fire!
Street artists performing for children in "Batman Alley", Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

williaes

Art Photos
#1 Artwork from CNC machine and lights

#2 Local Sculpture with some added light from my speedlight.



#3 Art Gallery Show

grandmaR

I don't know whether to include this one as it is a digitized film photo from a point and shoot camera taken 15 years ago in Key West at Fort Taylor, but it was one I thought of immediately

#1 - Waving Goodbye



I have another one similar but it was taken at night of a metal rearing horse and is not even as good as this one - taken in Barbados in 1996

I considered several things -The Mustangs of Las Colinas (which I love because of the way the water sprays up around their hooves, the cattle drive in Dallas, the giant hand in Antwerp, and the fiberglass animals that are painted as fund raisers. But I decided that these elephants (maybe graffiti?) were amusing. San Jose Costa Rica in 2015

2. Head to tail



This is an artist painting nudes which is behind the old customs house also in Key West. The piece is one part of a three part group which I couldn't get all in one shot. These were taken in 2011

3. Street art with artist and models



This is a collage of the three pieces, just for context



On the right is the artist which is the entry, in the middle are the models cavorting with a man lying down on the edge, and on the right is a man and his wife on the porch of the Old Customs House with binoculars.

pegelli

Great entries all, thanks
And for the others: "keep them coming"

Earache

The Human Canvas ~ Living art




Italian Chalk Art ~ Ephemeral and done just for the love of it




Gallery Art ~ Art can be, sometimes, well... awkward

pegelli

Great entries Eric

BMW Kurt

#1 Not sure if this one should go in Go Figure! Shot taken in Hamburg, St. Pauli, Germany.



#2 Japanese Drummers at the National Geographic Center in Washington, D.C., USA



#3 Puppets at a Hamburg Opera presentation. Hamburg, Germany

travelways

pegelli wrote: »

Great entries Eric

pegelli

Thanks for these entries Kurt, indeed art in the broadest sense

sarasphotos

Geez, this was a tough one - I hadn't realized that I had so many of this category to choose from! Not that they're all great photographs, but they of course bring back special memories. :-)

It seems I ended up with three types of public art: a free-standing sculpture in a context of nature, a temporary installation, and an example of long-standing decorative civic art

1) Adam and Eve from the beautiful Gardens of the VIlla Trauttsmansdorf





2) Paris, "Peace" installation by the Eifel Tower (2012)




3) The top of the 13-meter high "Annasäule" (Anna column) in Innsbruck





Now for the fun... here's a couple that are not for judging but are pretty interesting and/or funny

1) about four weeks ago on a bike ride, passing through a small bavarian town, I slammed on my brakes as we came upon this house:


2) once again a bike tour discovery - this atop a 5-meter tree stump. I couldn't pass it by...



I had such fun looking through my "public art" photos, I put together a smart gallery: Public Art

Thanks for the great subject, Pieter!

GSWayne

#1 What no cell phone reception in heaven?


#2 Death Valley


#3 Metal Sculpture in Valpariaso, Chile

sarasphotos

GSWayne - I love your titles! and of course the photos are cool, too!

pegelli

Thanks Sara and GSWayne for these entries. I can already feel judging will be a tough task.

Sara, I like your bonus shots as well, but #5 would probably better fit the "Public Kitch" category

jwear

Art
would this BEE art

jwear

art
or maybee HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

jwear

walk about, pick up and hiking art

Cavalier

Here are my entries:

#1 - Sea Ranch Chapel, California Coast - my favorite example of architectural art.




#2 - Afton, Wyoming entry sign art.



#3 - Coleville, Washington - Street corner art depicting mining history of the area.

pegelli

Thanks Jo and Jeff for entering. I love it when my judging gets more difficult :ivar

TonyCooper

I've looked at the other entries and come to the conclusion that I can't compete.
The entries already in are head-and-shoulders above what I could come up with.

Consequently, I'm presenting a Photoshop melding of two of my photographs
for your amusement. It's titled "Nothing but net".

pegelli

Tony, splendid composite and there's nothing in the rules against it so it will be a contender like any other.

Also I think these challenges are like the Olympics, participation is more important then winning, so don't be bashful and enter two more (composite or straight)

pegelli

Just a little under two days left to enter. :ivar

DonRicklin

1) Toronto sport fans



2) Louise Bouguois Eye sculptures at Williamstown College Museum of Art



3) twice carved stone wall, Quebec City



Don

grandmaR

I've seen the 'sports fans' - I really liked it but I was in a tour bus with an old point and shoot film camera. Nice to see it agsin

CHANDLERJA

1. The Station



2. Art? (I have always thought of Headstones and Grave Markers as art. But I would understand if others didn't)



3. People can be Art

DonRicklin

grandmaR wrote: »

I've seen the 'sports fans' - I really liked it but I was in a tour bus with an old point and shoot film camera. Nice to see it agsin

Thanks, GrandmaR. I was on the upper deck of a City Tour Bus and had my Canon D5III!



Don

OrvSal

My first entry challenge here, thanks for looking.

1. Street chalk festival in 2009, probably shot with D70 and 70-300mm. Photoshop and Topaz filters


2. Mural on the side of a winery in Carlsbad, Ca.