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Old 11-04-2010, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Okie, dokie!

Here's another interesting piece of sculpture.

What city is it in?

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Old 11-04-2010, 04:18 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Winner is the first person who guesses the correct set of keywords that are in the site caption. I haven't guessed them yet. But I have learned one thing---there are way, way too many artists in the world who are using the same tired motif.

There are hundreds of statues of people sitting on benches, all of them more descriptively captioned than this one.
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Old 11-04-2010, 04:31 PM
 
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Winner is the first person who guesses the correct set of keywords that are in the site caption. I haven't guessed them yet. But I have learned one thing---there are way, way too many artists in the world who are using the same tired motif.
That's not so. Have you only got ones right that you'd seen before - either in person or in a photo/film?

Any of us who don't immediately know the answer have to go through some process of figuring out what it is. Experience and memory help - familiarity with geography, art, architecture, culture helps - inspiration and deductive reasoning help. There's more than one way to whittle it down and find the answer. I'm guessing you bring more real world experience to this than most of us do - you get more right than most of us do - so try not to be too grumpy when a few come along that you don't click with right away. <shoves a few more cookies in JT's general direction>
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Old 11-04-2010, 04:46 PM
 
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That's not so. Have you only got ones right that you'd seen before - either in person or in a photo/film?

Any of us who don't immediately know the answer have to go through some process of figuring out what it is. Experience and memory help - familiarity with geography, art, architecture, culture helps - inspiration and deductive reasoning help. There's more than one way to whittle it down and find the answer. I'm guessing you bring more real world experience to this than most of us do - you get more right than most of us do - so try not to be too grumpy when a few come along that you don't click with right away. <shoves a few more cookies in JT's general direction>
It ceases to be travel-related or geography-related, if the only clue is to specifically identify a specific work of art, which could be placed in or transported to anywhere in the world, shows nothing unique, is not of relative artistic importance, and is of a heavily over-taxed genre, and there are no other clues. The figures seem to have a Latin American flavor, but none of the rest of the scene reflects that. Although the greenery and the terra-cotta paving stones suggest warm climate, that is of little value in trying to place it.
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Old 11-04-2010, 05:01 PM
 
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That's true - I'll give you that about the sculpture-only ones - especially if it's commercial art with no historical significance.
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Old 11-04-2010, 05:20 PM
 
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Winner is the first person who guesses the correct set of keywords that are in the site caption. I haven't guessed them yet. But I have learned one thing---there are way, way too many artists in the world who are using the same tired motif.

There are hundreds of statues of people sitting on benches, all of them more descriptively captioned than this one.

What site caption are you talking about?
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Old 11-04-2010, 05:22 PM
 
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Ok, forget that one then. It's at the Radisson Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela.

Try this one:

http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager1/files/2010/19/building/1.jpg (broken link)
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Old 11-04-2010, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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What site caption are you talking about?
Whatever caption is on whatever site contains the picture of the statue, which nobody has found yet. The picture will be displayed only if one enters keywords that were actually used in the text in the site where the picture occurs. For example, if the caption calls it a "statue of a seated" person, the keywords /sculpture sitting/ will not trigger a hit. One needs to guess which words were used in the site (if any) to describe it, but plenty of pictures from google images have no caption at all.
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Old 11-04-2010, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Maybe ex-USSR, like Ukraine? Wait, red roof---Bulgaria?

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Old 11-04-2010, 07:27 PM
 
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Maybe ex-USSR, like Ukraine? Wait, red roof---Bulgaria?
No, but you're fairly close.
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