The Fountain, Vigeland Park ,Oslo, Norway
Vigelandparken is a unique sculpture park set in the old Frogner Park, since renamed Vigeland Park and is the life work of the sculptor Gustav Vigeland. There are more than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite and cast iron. They represent different stages of life and human relationships. The Fountain is the earliest sculpture unit in the park. In the center of the basin, six giants hold the large saucer-shaped vessel aloft and from it a curtain of water spills down around them. The men, representing different ages, may be interpreted as toiling with the burden of life and the effort expended in lifting the heavy vessel varies. Water, a universal symbol of fertility, is used within the fountain complex in a meaningful juxtaposition with the twenty "tree groups" on the surrounding parapet, the latter evidently symbolizing the "tree of life."
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Keywords: bronze, fountain, frogner, gustav, norway, oslo, park, scandinavia, sculpture, statue, vigeland, vigelandparken
