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Northumberland - 400-meter sculpture of a woman
In the Northern part of great Britain there was a huge landscape sculpture – reclining woman work of Charles Jencks. Length artwork of about 400 meters, and today this sculpture is the largest sculpture on the planet.
The sculpture is called "Northumberland" and is made of earth, stones and empty rocks near the village of Shotton, where the largest coal mine in the UK. Sculpting also left about 1.5 million tons of slag that formed as a result of work at the mine.
The scale of the sculpture Jenks is a reminder of the scale of coal mining in the area of great Britain, and the sculpture has become a kind of compensation to human activities. Fully see "Northumberland" you can only take off in the air.
According to representatives of the designer, who worked on the creation of "Northumberland" sculpture absolutely does not mean anything and is simply a woman. The cost of creating a "lying women" amounted to about £ 3 million. The sculpture will be opened to the public in September of this year.
The locals took the sculpture is ambiguous, and some of them already managed to be nicknamed "Tolstoy rowdy". British feminists accused the author of an unusual project in discrimination against women.
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The sculpture is called "Northumberland" and is made of earth, stones and empty rocks near the village of Shotton, where the largest coal mine in the UK. Sculpting also left about 1.5 million tons of slag that formed as a result of work at the mine.
The scale of the sculpture Jenks is a reminder of the scale of coal mining in the area of great Britain, and the sculpture has become a kind of compensation to human activities. Fully see "Northumberland" you can only take off in the air.
According to representatives of the designer, who worked on the creation of "Northumberland" sculpture absolutely does not mean anything and is simply a woman. The cost of creating a "lying women" amounted to about £ 3 million. The sculpture will be opened to the public in September of this year.
The locals took the sculpture is ambiguous, and some of them already managed to be nicknamed "Tolstoy rowdy". British feminists accused the author of an unusual project in discrimination against women.
Source: /users/104