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bajalera
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New Malecon Art
Here are some photos of the new sculpture on the malecon down and across from the Los Arcos Hotel in La Paz.
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bajalera
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Another view
Another view of the sculpture
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bajalera
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sculpture
The fine detail of the mermaid's scales
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Natalie Ann
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Always I enjoy the La Paz Malecon sculptures... and what a marvelous new addition! The scales are so detailed - perfect! Thank you for sharing
these, Lera.
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Packoderm
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It looks like her legs are more separate than a true mermaid. How would you fillet something like that?
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Amazing, what is it made of? Copper, Aluminum ?
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bajalera
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I don't know zip about it. Maybe it will eventually get a plaque [sp?] !
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Bajalera,
Nice photos! That piece of art definitely would have caught my eye. I love the Malecon. Here is a shot from last November before the mermaid showed
up.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Packoderm
It looks like her legs are more separate than a true mermaid. How would you fillet something like that? |
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Someone call the kitsch police for this flagrant example of cruise ship art.
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Do you suppose either one of those marine mammals has enough structural support to stand up to a hard breeze? There's not much metal for all that
weight cantilevered out.
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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She looks cold!
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If this is kitsch, put me on a cruise ship, and give me ART!
This is a magnificent sculpture! Grace, form, movement. It defies gravity, hence the questions about wind. It makes me think, man/dolphin/the earth. I
can see it floating above the malacon, that bay, alive!
Look at the colors, the detail, the graceful way it moves accross the horizon.
An entire generation of artists were wrested away from representational art to then regale us with awful pieces of the bizarre masquarading as art,
phew!!!! People relate to representational art and instinctively know of it's greatness. Everyone knows what this is and what it says! It says SEA,
LIFE, PLAYFULNESS, GRACE, MOVEMENT, Dolphin/Mythical Mermaid/Earth, Wonder, joy and play! Earth, sea, wonder!
Would you prefer a pile of rusted iron that you look at and ask, what the f.... is that? Perhaps a cross in a jar of urine? Now that is real art, righ
there, what the h... is it? They must have been real smart to have made it! I don't understand it, but, heh, I am not an artist, drop head and walk
away......
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Disneyland called.
They wan't their steaming pile of Wyland back.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Slowmad
Disneyland called.
They wan't their steaming pile of Wyland back. |
I confess to being such a philistine that I did not know who or what this "Wyland" was. So I googled "Wyland."
From Wyland's website:
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Wyland, the world's Premier Ocean artist, has been a pioneer in the marine art movement since 1971. This painter, sculptor, and muralist is one of the
most prolific and celebrated artists of our time. Perhaps of all time.
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Look, I know it's hard to please everyone when you install/foist a piece of public art...but if I needed to see an idealized representation of a
19-year-old Anna Nicole Smith having a giddy Thomas Kinkade dolphin underwater stress-testing the structural integrity of her implants whilst
precariously balancing on a shiny brass ball I'd ask for it, mm-kay?
For the love of God, get that thing off my once-stunning Baja viewplane. 
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Slowmad,
Even though I disagree with your analysis I appreciate the writing. Great surgery even though the patient died!
For an excellent analysis of art in the seventies read Thom Wolfe, Hooking Up. I appreciate his clarity and writing also.
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I know everything about art, I just don't know what I like.
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art, art who?
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The patient died?
That sacharine nightmare was flatlining back on the sketchpad.
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