Street art · Amsterdam
Photo: Ceescamel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Water, Land, Licht
By Jan Meefout
Carved from limestone and set into a brick pylon corner, "Water, Land, Licht" wraps a nude allegorical figure around a lattice of abstract shapes—an interwar sculptural style that treated buildings as canvases long before muralism went vertical.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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