' Love for the charging Bull's action
January 3 2016 By Abiodun Giwa
The Charging Bull
The Bull Statute in New York City's financial district is called 'The charging Bull' and it is a major tourists' attraction. More than seven out of ten people searching for locations around the financial district are looking for the Bull.
On Thursday, a long line of visitors waited to have a chance to be photographed with the Bull as it is usually the case during the day.
However, many people don't even know what the bull represents, but that doesn't stop them from liking it. They are fascinated by the Bull's seeming natural charging action. The Bull does has a long history dating back to the 1990s.
Wikipedia writes that the Bull 's head is lowered, its nostrils flare, and its wickedly long, sharp horns are ready to gore; it's an angry, dangerous beast. The muscular body twists to one side, and the tail is curved like a lash: the Bull is also energetic and in motion.
"The bronze color and hard, metallic texture of the sculpture's surface emphasises the brute force of the creature. The work was designed and placed so that viewers could walk around it, which also suggests the creature's own movement is unrestricted — a point reinforced by the twisting posture of the bull's body, according to Durante. Charging Bull, then, shows an aggressive or even belligerent force on the move, but unpredictably. [...] [I]t's not far-fetched to say the theme is the energy, strength, and unpredictability of the stock market. Di Modica told the New York Daily News in 1998: That the bull in New York City is one of an edition of five. … I'm hoping the other four will be going to cities all over the world, whenever somebody buys them."
Wikipedia added that in 2010, a similar Charging Bull sculpted by Di Modica, which looks "younger" and "stronger", was installed in Shanghai, called Bund Bull, and in 2012 one was placed on Het Beursplein in Amsterdam.
On Thursday, a long line of visitors waited to have a chance to be photographed with the Bull as it is usually the case during the day.
However, many people don't even know what the bull represents, but that doesn't stop them from liking it. They are fascinated by the Bull's seeming natural charging action. The Bull does has a long history dating back to the 1990s.
Wikipedia writes that the Bull 's head is lowered, its nostrils flare, and its wickedly long, sharp horns are ready to gore; it's an angry, dangerous beast. The muscular body twists to one side, and the tail is curved like a lash: the Bull is also energetic and in motion.
"The bronze color and hard, metallic texture of the sculpture's surface emphasises the brute force of the creature. The work was designed and placed so that viewers could walk around it, which also suggests the creature's own movement is unrestricted — a point reinforced by the twisting posture of the bull's body, according to Durante. Charging Bull, then, shows an aggressive or even belligerent force on the move, but unpredictably. [...] [I]t's not far-fetched to say the theme is the energy, strength, and unpredictability of the stock market. Di Modica told the New York Daily News in 1998: That the bull in New York City is one of an edition of five. … I'm hoping the other four will be going to cities all over the world, whenever somebody buys them."
Wikipedia added that in 2010, a similar Charging Bull sculpted by Di Modica, which looks "younger" and "stronger", was installed in Shanghai, called Bund Bull, and in 2012 one was placed on Het Beursplein in Amsterdam.
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