Weird Art of Prague

When you visit Prague, there are of course many beautiful buildings, cathedrals, and of course castles that tickle your aesthetic senses. This page is not dedicated to that.

I take a moment to dedicate this page to the weird art of Prague- mostly attributed to the controversial work of David Černý.



First on the list: Statue of St. Wenceslas riding a dead horse- upside down.

The first night we decided to go out to a club- Lucerna- we passed through a hall and discovered this. We had no idea that it was a famous piece of art. We had no clue what to really make of it. It's just in the middle of this hallway by Wenceslas Square- on the way to Club Lucerna. Only later did we realize that it was actually the work of David Cerny who plagues the rest of Prague with his work.

On the other side of the river- not using the Charles Bridge- but the smaller bridge just south of it, you will find this memorial to the victims of communism.







Really interesting pieces, where each step, the man is becoming more whole. The first step started with just a single foot.





















At this moment, Fran and I contemplated why statues are always made of men. Therefore, I stepped in and became the next piece of the forwardism.
















Then of course there are the peeing statues. Soo strange these pieces are. In the states, these would never be allowed.. but of course, after viewing these, I realized that anything is allowed in the Prague.


They are soo perverse. Two men facing each other in a pool/fountain in a courtyard outside the Kafka museum. The butts actually rotate and as they rotate, the penis goes up and down- peeing the whole time. Very disturbing.

Here is Rosie and Janette being a little naughty with the statues.



And finally the last, but most likely the most famous of David Cerny's pieces is the Baby Tower. It is a television tower by the Jiriho z Podebrad station, where you can approach the massive tower. Anywhere in the city you can see this tower. And from afar, it does not appear to be anything more special than what it is.

However, when approaching it, you can see it is actually quite disturbing. There are babies crawling up the tower.













Well if that is not unusual enough, then when looking closely upon those babies, you see that their faces are-- imploded! It brings about a very disturbing site.































Then there are these locks of love everywhere: uuggh sickening lol





The John Lennon wall is a really famous piece to see as well. Prague is very hippy-ish. This wall suits it very well.

Last day of sightseeing before the Course Starts

I surprisingly woke up around 11 after coming home at 530am and was gonna meet the girls to do some sightseeing before class started Monday.

Finally I have a clear shot of the Muzeum in the main center- this is are regular metro stop.

City square headed towards astrological clock—does a little show at every hour so we weren’t gonna make it so we decided to grab some food before. Saw hara Krishna performances in the middle of the square—sooo weird!

We checked out St. James Cathedral close by and pictures were banned—but I snuck one picture anyway of the main part.. ohh it was soo gorgeous inside- reminded me of Medieval art and architecture class a couple years back—I wish I remembered some of it! My professor would have been able to tell us what era it was built in and what everything meant.. but it was gorgeous inside

Walked about and found a place to eat- had spiced chicken goulash with bread dumplings that Fran my roomie was raving about—she had eaten beef goulash everywhere she went so I tried it and it was pretty delicious

Went back to the square and saw clock at perfect time- saints going through windows and skeleton man pulling on the cord- no song which another girl said there should have been a song playing.











Went up the tower for 100 czk and best decision ever!! Beautiful views of whole city- wish I knew how to do the panoramic function on camera! Dammit.. I left the user's guide at the flat. We took the long trek up the tower.. we could've used the elevator and thats what this picture is of.. the elevator casing was really cool looking, but we thought it'd be more authentic if we walked up it. It wasn't too bad actually.. instead of steps it was ramps the whole way up. Nifty!
















There is this large tower we had heard of and it has these babies crawling up it. It's really weird, but from the clock tower, we could actually make out babies crawling up it!!



We also, saw this amazing little restaurant on top of a building.. like literally on the roof. It looked so cool! I definitely want to splurge one day and eat up there!





What an amazing though! We were tired though so we headed back home- Fran had a date with this Finnish guy she met the other night and we wanted to get on computers so below KFC is a place Déjà vu where we can still get onto the network and actually drink as we go! Yay! Perfect!