Our cities are full of majestic monuments, stunning sculptures and artistic statues, each having a story to tell. While the first statues were meant to celebrate the gods, later famous people, military leaders, and generals, now it might also be a modern art and abstract piece of work. A sculpture's main purpose today is public art - something that's aesthetically pleasing and adds color and emotion to even the most boring areas of the cities. Thousands of them have been made but only a few of them are really extraordinary and thus, famous statues. That's why our readers set out to find the world's most creative ones, from modern sculptures to classical artworks.
For some time, bored pandas around the globe have been submitting their pictures of the most famous sculptures here. We have received more than 160 pictures and hundreds of votes which resulted in this awesome list. We added a couple of our own pictures and made the final compilation of the most creative sculptures and statues from around the world. Be sure to check it below!
1. Mustangs By Robert Glen, Las Colinas, Texas, USA
Image credits: mustangsoflascolinas.com
2. Expansion by Paige Bradley, New York, USA
Image credits: Anastasia Tank
3. The Monument Of An Anonymous Passerby, Wroclaw, Poland
Image credits: Anonymous Panda
4. Salmon Sculpture, Portland, Oregon, USA
Image credits: Ava Hirschsohn
5. People Of The River By Chong Fah Cheong, Singapore
Image credits: gaartu.livejournal.com
6. The Shoes On The Danube Bank by Can Togay & Gyula Pauer, Budapest, Hungary
Image credits: Nikodem Nijaki
7. The Knotted Gun, Turtle Bay, New York, USA
Image credits: dailyphotostream.blogspot.com
8. Break Through From Your Mold By Zenos Frudakis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Image credits: Julija K.
9. Black Ghost, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Image credits: panoramio.com
Image credits: iq.lt
10. Les Voyageurs, Marseilles, France
Image credits: Bruno Catalano
11. Nelson Mandela, South Africa
Image credits: marcocianfanelli.com
12. De Vaartkapoen, Brussels, Belgium
Image credits: panoramio.com
13. Cattle Drive, Dallas, Texas, USA
Image credits: theworldofgord.com
14. Spider, Tate Modern, London, UK
Image credits: Alf Gillman
15. Hippo Sculptures, Taipei, Taiwan
Image credits: Patche99z
16. Sinking Building Outside State Library, Melbourne, Australia
Image credits: Anonymous Panda
17. Iguana Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Image credits: Sanchez Herrero
18. Man At Work, Bratislava, Slovakia
Image credits: Lukas Jaborka
19. Mihai Eminescu, Onesti, Romania
Image credits: Dan Dima
20. A Scene From The World War With Real-Size Statues, Eceabat, Turkey
Image credits: Ionut Naidin
21. Man Hanging Out, Prague, Czech Republic
Image credits: civicartsproject.com
22. Kelpies, Grangemouth, UK
Image credits: Andrew Milligan
23. A Day Out, Adelaide, Australia
Sculpture by: Marguerite Derricourt | Image credits: peterclayton.com.au
24. The Unknown Official, Reykjavik, Iceland
Image credits: geoffdeburca
25. The Shark, Oxford, UK
Image credits: artmoscow.wordpress.com