Appealing Sculptures with Background Stories

Throughout history, humankind has been in an effort to externalize his emotions through art. Even if we do not have a precise date information about history of sculptures , it can be easily said that it is one of the oldest art forms. In various archaeological finds, traces of some sculptures have been found even during the cave period. It is thought that the first sculpture in the history were made for worship or respect to gods, heroes, and soldiers. The sculpture art based on the factor of religion also continued in the Ancient, Classical, and Hellenistic ages. However, in the modern era, the role of sculpture has changed. In modern world, unlike the past, sculptors have more secular concerns now. They reflect individual issues, emotions, cultures, and historical events. Also, some sculptures have particular aims for their creation, they give people a message or tell a story so evoke various emotions on people by art.10 Scary Paintings for Halloween Theme

Here are some sculptures with a message in their backgrounds;

The Shoes on the Danube by Can Togay and Gyula Pauer

The Shoes on the Danube by Can Togay and Gyula Pauer

During the last years of World War II, 10,000 people were killed and about 80,000 people sent to concentration camps in Budapest by Nazis. Jews in Budapest were gathering on the Danube before they were shot. Even worse, because of that shoes were valuable in war conditions, they were forced to take off their shoes to sell or use them later.

The Support by Lorenzo Quinn

The Support by Lorenzo Quinn

This statue represents the hands coming out of the Grand Canal trying to save historic building and Venice from drowning. The statue is intended to draw more attention to the problem of climate change.

‘I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body. The hand holds so much power – the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy,’ Lorenzo Quinn.

The Karma by Do Ho Suh

By this sculpture, artist essentially depicts the interlacing of our lives and the karmic truth of connection. Karma can be seen as a visual representation of how each of our lives and past experiences are bound up with each other blindly , are built up, one upon the other.

The Knotted Gun by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd

This sculpture created after John Lennon’s death. It is also known as ‘non-violence’. It’s a bronze sculpture describing a Colt Python 357 Magnum revolver with its barrel tied in a knot. It signifies a world without violence, a symbol of lasting peace.

The Les Voyageurs by Bruno Catalone

‘The Les Voyageurs’ emphasizes the themes of travel, migration and journeying. It depicts people with the part of their bodies lacking. In other words, every traveler leaves a piece of him where he left and these missing pieces express the memories and things left behind by each traveler.

The Trains to Life — Trains to Death by Frank Meisler

The sculpture delineates two group of children. While first group (grey bronze) represents children waiting for the train to take them to the concentration camp and later being killed there, the second group (lighter bronze) represents children who saved by the ‘Kindertransport’ which was an organised rescue effort. Meisler himself also travelled with a 1939 children’s transport from Berlin-Friedrichstraße to England.