Why don't we make new giant statues anymore?

[Diondon]

Once upon a time, someone could become a renowned painter or sculptor and be commissioned by the govt or the wealthy for their works
Now, they would be homeless in the street.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

They're mostly just enormous vanity pieces which serve little point in the overall scheme of things.

Also tourist attractions.

 

[inndaskKy]

Cause us Pigeons will just shyt on them

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[Ezus Jezus]

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I didn’t even see that profile name

 

[richaveli83]

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I just want to see the process of how they were made.... Humans ain't shyt but are also amazing at the same time.....

 

[Roid Jones]

Interesting point

 

[LeftCoast]

we need a new mount rushmore

 

[Lord Scion]

I was rewatching Game of Thrones and I always when I see Bravoos

China took this one down like the same week it opened

 

[loyola llothta]

Beautiful sculpture but digging deeper explains why these things don't happen often. They are often expensive propaganda pieces that for dictators. In Senegal, they paid $27 mil for the statue and gave North Koreans the land it is on. The Wikipedia page speaks for itself:




Also, this is how North Korea exerts powers across the globe. They have African brothers out here paying homage to Kim Jong-Il for no damn reason because of propaganda. Vice did a special on it (timestampped):

False but when you get everything from the west and Wikipedia…. I’m not surprise

 

[Macallik86]

False but when you get everything from the west and Wikipedia…. I’m not surprise

Senegal and North Korea have two things in common. One is abject poverty. The other is that they are now neighbors. North Korea, which is gradually starving an entire nation out of existence, bought a piece of Senegal in exchange for funding the construction of a massive statue designed by President Abdoulaye Wade. While others have condemned the exchange (and the use of over $20 million for such an extravagance), Jesse Jackson appeared at the ceremony to praise President Wade, stating “This renaissance statue is a powerful idea from a powerful mind.”

North Korea still demands the world pay to feed its people while it spends lavishly on its president and its military. It will be interesting when Wade demands millions in aid while spending so much on this statue.

Monumental Failure? Senegal Trades Land to North Korea For Massive Statute Designed By President — Jesse Jackson Applauds Result

 

[Geek Nasty]

“What are THOSE???”

 

[Low End Derrick]

They do, just not in America

 

[Elim Garak]

It's because alien's did it