World tour of outdoor art

1. Angel of the North (Gateshead)

This strange steel sculpture dominates the Tyneside conurbation in England, from the top of a hill. As high as four double-decker bus and off as a Boeing 747, is visible for miles around. Its "wings" amply deployed attest that it is an angel, but the metal structure evokes rather a cyborg from the future. Anyway, it is very impressive.

You can not miss the "North Angel", which happens to Gateshead rail or the A1 motorway. For a closer look, take Angel Gateshead Interchange Bus or Bus Station Eldon Sq, in Newcastle.

2. East Side Gallery (Berlin)

After 1989, the Berlin Wall used to support countless artists to express the euphoria of reunification. The East Side Gallery, the longest remnant of the wall is covered with more than 100 paintings and graffiti. Dreamlike creatures inspired by Dalí and drawings of brick walls dismantled (how Pink Floyd) still evoke forcefully surge of hope that represented the Wall. Much of these works have been degraded by weather or vandalism, but a restoration program was fortunately engaged there a few years.

The East Side Gallery is located near the city center. It can be reached by train (get off at the station Ostbahnhof). 

3. Drawings Banksy stencil

The works of the enigmatic and prolific Banksy can be admired all over the world, the wall separating Israel from Palestine in Bristol, where rumor has it that he created. Mixtures stencil painting and graffiti, these creations treating political and cultural news on the critical mode has elevated the art of the street to the summits. Banksy said he had set stencil graffiti because taking too long. Hurry up to admire his works in situ before they are deleted at the request of authorities or auctioned at Sotheby's.

4. Statue of Liberty (New York)

Is it because of his name? Everyone seems to believe allowed to take liberties with what has become the main symbol of the United States. After almost destroyed during a German bombing in 1916, she was half buried under radioactive dust in Planet of the Apes (1968). Then the magician David Copperfield squarely put away in 1983, it was transformed into a living creature in Ghostbusters II (1989), destroyed in Independence Day (1996) and covered with snow in The Day After Tomorrow (2004).

One can access the pedestal of the statue with a previously Monument Pass purchased online. 

5. Rodina Mat (Volgograd)

Hats off! The Rodina Mat ("Motherland"), which overlooks the Mamayev Kurgan in Russia (a hill become a vast memorial), is one of the largest statues in the world: 83 m high. Gigantism commensurate with the 30 million Russians died during the Second World War which it pays homage. Away from the serenity of the Statue of Liberty, the Motherland seems the expression of power and anger: she brandishes a sword 11 m length and mouth twists in an angry snarl.

Going up to the statue, the tunnel into the hillside houses a monument to the Battle of Stalingrad.

6. Park Güell (Barcelona)

Created between 1900 and 1914, Park Güell in Barcelona was designed by Antoni Gaudí, visionary architect, darling of the Spaniards. It was originally part of a new city, but the project was soon abandoned. Gaudí was able to give free rein to his taste for original architecture, inspired by the forms observed in nature walkways evoking a cloister buried among the roots of a tree-like columns truncated stalagmites covered with colorful mosaics, long bench snake-like, caves, niches and crannies galore. An unrivaled masterpiece.

7. Stravinsky Fountain (Paris)

Round black metal or controllers and colorful are splashing water, pulsate, the vaporize, make it swirl in a somewhat frenzied pace reminiscent of the circus or jazz. Made in 1983 by Jean Tinguely (black machines) and Niki de Saint Phalle (the colorful sculptures), this fountain in memory of Igor Stravinsky evokes the influence of jazz on the great Russian composer. Installed on the place Igor-Stravinsky fountain creates a fun activity between the colored lines from the Pompidou Centre and the Gothic Saint-Merri church.

The National Museum of Modern Art in the Pompidou Centre visit for free on the 1st Sunday of each month.

8. Mission Murals (San Francisco)

Inspired by the Mexican murals of the 1920s as well as by delusions psychedelic 1960s, these famous paintings colored walls of countless Latino Mission District in San Francisco. Spanish motifs, Aztec and Mayan, human rights, football, carnival and Mexican cinema are the most common themes, but most important of all remains the representation of the Latino community.

9. Mount Rushmore (South Dakota)

The giant portraits of four presidents of the United States (Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln) carved into the side of Mount Rushmore have profoundly permeated American popular culture, by Northwest to Simpsons, while maintaining their dignity. If they were endowed body, these characters would measure almost 150 m high.