tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post2166518934907640286..comments2024-02-26T21:27:17.091+13:00Comments on The Fundy Post: Art beatPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-6938711552678034322009-04-08T10:48:00.000+12:002009-04-08T10:48:00.000+12:00Sailor with a stiffie? Very much in the grand old ...Sailor with a stiffie? Very much in the grand old Auckland tradition of such things. Once upon a time the giant kilted & busby-wearing neon highlander that towered above Broadway flogging Dewars whiskey was known as the wanking Scotsman, on account of the ambiguous "marching" action of his jiggling kilt.Joe Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770796703598222277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-65628906638760898022009-04-08T07:35:00.000+12:002009-04-08T07:35:00.000+12:00I hear what you are saying Paul. Here in Dundee we...I hear what you are saying Paul. Here in Dundee we have a life size bronze of Desperate Dan with his dog, behind him Minnie the Minx is lining him up with her catapault. Around the corner is a nicely greening bronze of a life size dragon (not cute) that the kids like climbing. In the other direction on the retaining wall around the old church is a line of penguins (bronze again), they can be viewed as a line of penguins approaching and hopping down the step or a freeze frame series of the same penguin. The tiling on the square in front of that is done to represent how a reflection of the end of the church would look. <BR/><BR/>None of that may be high art, but it is all good civic sculpture and it says at least some of our leaders have a good sense of humour. There is modern stuff on the waterfront and around the university. None of it is as striking as the bronzes in the centre.Peter in Dundeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-19258403339522058722009-04-07T21:36:00.000+12:002009-04-07T21:36:00.000+12:00a friend in auckland used to refer to freyberg as ...a friend in auckland used to refer to freyberg as "that statute of a sailor with a stiffie"<BR/><BR/>to which it is hard to add anything at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-17796832095297280022009-04-07T17:24:00.000+12:002009-04-07T17:24:00.000+12:00worst. ever. public. sculpture.http://www.flickr.c...worst. ever. public. sculpture.<BR/><BR/>http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshades/2370303919/in/set-72157604294759386/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-21539313304650565532009-04-07T16:23:00.000+12:002009-04-07T16:23:00.000+12:00My favourite examples of shitmanship with Auckland...My favourite examples of shitmanship with Auckland public art:<BR/><BR/>- Guy Ngan's Millennium Tree sculpture, having been designed for the Parnell Rose Gardens, was moved to the Domain after Parnellites complained.<BR/><BR/>- Michio Ihara's Wind Tree, after being neglected, was dismantled ahead of the Britomart revamp, and remains in storage today.<BR/><BR/>- The Dove-Myer Robinson statue being repositioned down onto Aotea Square, despite having been originally designed for the Town Hall balcony.<BR/><BR/>- Greer Twiss's Karangahape Rocks fountain operating not as a fountain for decades.<BR/><BR/><I>Arrgh! Modern sculpture! If it doesn't look like something I recognise as a real world object I feel tense and uneasy!</I>Robynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278675946018423652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36994129.post-81035409397731849052009-04-07T16:09:00.000+12:002009-04-07T16:09:00.000+12:00I'm cautious about splitting hairs when you're dem...I'm cautious about splitting hairs when you're demolishing sculptures, but perhaps the goats are a close repetition of a theme rather than a copy. I understand China is big on that sort of thing.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, rather than an indication of content, 'Five Rams Sculpture' is a rating to indicate the number of hydraulic rams it can withstand.Lyndonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622953598107216261noreply@blogger.com