Street art · London
Photo: Dun.can from Leicestershire, UK, CC BY 2.0
The Gardener
By Karin Jonzen
Bent double and bone-tired! This bronze "Gardener" captures raw physical labor with an expressionist, unpolished surface straight out of Rodin's rough-hewn tradition — no idealizing here, just aching muscle and toil.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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