Triumph of Civic Virtue (Photograph by Jim Henderson) In protest of t he existing monument of the Ten Commandments, the Satanic temple has asked the grounds committee for the Oklahoma State Capitol to permit the placement of a privately funded statue of Satan in a Baphomet form, complete with pentagram and two children.Īny decision on the statue’s installation will have to wait until the current ACLU lawsuit to remove the Ten Commandments statue is resolved. According to the Temple, the statue will have a lap for visitors to sit in for Kodak moments. Satan with two children (via Satanic Temple)įor a statue that does not yet exist, it has certainly drawn a lot of controversy. Bennett allegedly never received a commission to sculpt again. Christopher Columbus’ alien-robot doppelganger was the first statue by local Douglas Bennett, who said he wanted to depict Columbus as gaunt and worried. It’s unclear why a favorite “discoverer” of countries has a statue in Seattle of all places, facing a body of water he would perhaps never have dreamed of existing. The statue was soundly rejected by the local Arts Commission of Seattle, but the Seattle City Council overruled the people who could have averted this disaster. Another sculptor, Sherry Fry, completed the statue and the finished artwork was installed in Central Square with no dedication ceremony or unveiling.Ĭhristopher Columbus (photograph by Hubert K) He eventually was found in a park along the river with the two razors that he used to slit his own throat. Around a week after beginning the sculpture, Harvey began hearing voices ordering him to kill himself. The background of this fountain dregs up some morbid bits and bobs. Architect Henry Bacon, who later was the architect for the Lincoln Memorial, put together the plan for this fountain, and the piece was assigned to sculptor Charles Y. For those of us with our minds deeply drenched in the gutter (hello, everyone), this statue depicts a clear act of man-turtle loving. The Burnside Fountain in Worcester, Massachusetts, allegedly depicts a young boy riding a turtle. The statue is surrounded by thirteen poles, each of which used to fly confederate flags.Īnd yes, he is dual wielding a sword and a pistol, and awfully delighted about it.īurnside Fountain (Photograph via Wikimedia) Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue (photograph by Brent Moore)Ī common nominee for biggest eyesore in Nashville, Tennessee, this gold and silver disaster along the highway depicts none other than one of the key founders of the Ku Klux Klan (General Forrest’s defenders usually counter that the Klan didn’t become such an overtly white supremacist group until later, but this is splitting racial hate hairs). Beauty may indeed be in the eye of the beholder, but for some of the statues below, only the sculptor’s mother may have applauded at the unveiling. However, there are just some statues that everyone seems to hate (or at least love to hate). Statues in public spaces in particular are lightning rods for controversy, possibly due to the implication that the piece will remain for a significant period of time or that some community value is manifested physically by the statue itself. At a fundamental level, art is intended to elicit an emotional state.
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