Video: Topiary art. Amazing examples of green sculptures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Perhaps not everyone knows what it is topiary, although everyone has probably seen his examples. This beautiful word hides the creation of green park and garden sculptures. Recently all over the world there are more and more fans of this spectacular art, so it's time to get to know it better. At the end of the earth, or rather, on the Australian island of Tasmania, there is a park called Topiary City. On the green lawns, visitors can see plants trimmed in the form of soldiers standing in a row, a huge spider or elephants. The place of honor is occupied by the sculpture of an extinct marsupial wolf - the symbol of Tasmania.
The park in the American city of Columbus is famous for the fact that it reproduces the plot from the painting of the French painter Georges-Pierre Seurat "Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte".
The summer royal palace Bang Pa-In in Thailand is surrounded by extensive topiary gardens, where you can find green figures of both elephants, which are familiar to Asia, and hares, which are quite atypical for this area.
At the top of the Broadcasting Center near Wimbledon is a garden sculpture of a cameraman.
Ladew Topiary Gardens in Moncton, Maryland is one of the most famous topiary parks in the United States. It was founded back in 1930, and since then its green sculptures have been loved by both Americans and numerous guests of the country.
What do most people associate with the British city of Liverpool? Of course, with the football club of the same name and the legendary Beatles. The matter has not yet reached the footballers, but the four who made their city famous are the inhabitants of Liverpool put up an original sculpture made of plants.
In the Spanish city of Bilbao, there is the Guggenheim Museum, and in front of it, the sculptor Jeff Koons installed a 13-meter figure of a puppy made of a huge number of flowers. By the way, before settling in Spain, the giant puppy managed to travel, having visited Germany, Australia and the USA.
Shanghai, which hosted the 2006 International Mosaiculture exhibition, amazed the public with its lush green sculpture garden. One of the most interesting design solutions is birds flying right above the surface of the pond.
If you want to decorate your own garden with topiary, but doubt that you can create such a sculpture, the British Steve Manning, who creates such works to order, will definitely help you. The demand for his work is so great that some clients have to wait for three years! But the lucky owners of green sculptures claim that the result is worth the wait.
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