Video: Weston Sand Sculpture Festival: Hit the sand on off-road and pop culture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Along with the LEGO constructor, ordinary river or sea sand is a versatile material for the artist, with which you can create literally anything your heart desires. This is what the authors who create sand sculpture … One of festivals for them took place recently in England. And it was dedicated to pop culture, namely, Hollywood cinema.
Summer is in full swing, and more and more people are thinking about how to quickly drop all worries and go to the beach. This is what twelve talented artists from all over the world did, gathering in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in England. The Weston Sand Sculpture Festival has been held here for several years in a row.
Hollywood is the main theme of the Weston Sand Sculpture Festival this year. Therefore, the authors have created twelve stunningly beautiful sculptures dedicated to their favorite films, movie characters, actors and even directors.
Despite the fact that the Weston Sand Sculpture Festival has already ended, sand images of ET ET, superheroes Batman and Hulk, legendary director Alfred Hitchcock, a huge monkey named King Kong, characters from the films Pirates Caribbean "," Harry Potter "," Taxi Driver "and many other masterpieces of world cinema.
But unlike classic movies, which will be loved for many decades and centuries to come, the sculptures on the beach in Weston-super-Mare have a much shorter life. In just a couple of weeks, they will again turn into shapeless piles of sand, remaining only in the photographs of the Weston Sand Sculpture Festival.
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