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Visual Arts The visual arts encompass areas such as painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, photography, printmaking, many design disciplines, as well the decorative arts like textile art and metalwork.

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Kleber in Strasbourg :



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Monument of Hermann in Teutoburg Forest, Germany






Niederwald Memorial near Rüdesheim, Germany



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Alexander II monument in Helsinki, Finland.

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Some Finnish statues and memorials:


War Memorial in Tampere


Civil War memorial


Marshal Mannerheim, Helsinki


Same statue, different angle.


The Three Blacksmiths, Helsinki


Aleksis Kivi, Helsinki


Uno Cygnaeus


Another Civil War Memorial


Lalli


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War Memorial, Joensuu


The Hackapelits, Lahti
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Here are two of the few noteworthy statues in Denmark:
King Christian the 4th, one of the few great kings in the history of Denmark. If you ever come to Copenhagen and see a beautiful building, it was probably built during Christian the 4th.


Holger Danske/Ogier the Dane, an allegedly Danish soldier from Charlemagne's army. The symbol of Danish nationalists (unfortunately being exploited by neo-nazis). My great-grandfather worked as the soldier who protected this statue - highly symbolic...
According to the legend, Holger wakes up if Denmark is in danger. History, unfortunately, showed that he didn't.


Oh yeah, I like this one as well. "Troll That Smells Christian Blood" outside of Jesuskirken in Valby.
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Troll That Smells Christian Blood" outside of Jesuskirken in Valby.
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Berlin Victory Column






Bismarck Memorial in Berlin




Bismarck Memorial in Hamburg




Bavaria statue in Munich



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"Children - Victims of the Sins of Adults" in Moscow.







Peter The Great in Saint-Petersburg:



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"Children - Victims of the Sins of Adults" in Moscow.
I found the sins which each statue represents:

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So, come here some day and you will see Mr. Shemyakin’s incarnations of:

· Drug Addiction
· Prostitution
· Theft
· Alcoholism
· Ignorance
· Irresponsible Science
· Indifference [the centrepiece*!]
· Propaganda of violence
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· For those without memory
· Child labour
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· War
perceptibly closing in on two playmates, a girl and a boy.

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Kyffhäuser Monument (Thuringia), with statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Barbarossa





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The statue has a mutated animal in front of her so it likely refers to Chernobyl and similar disasters.
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The statue has a mutated animal in front of her so it likely refers to Chernobyl and similar disasters.

Yes, I also thought that it probably refers to radiation. But also perhaps medical experiments on children.
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Mozart Monument in Burggarten, Vienna, Austria






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