Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Modern Art?

Outside the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow is a statue of the Duke of Wellington on a horse.  When I was there, the Duke was wearing a rather nice traffic cone as a hat!  I thought this was a rather good image - so I took some pictures.

I have since found out that the putting a cone on the Dukes head, and sometimes on the head of the horse as well is a bit of a Glasgow tradition, which seems to date back to the 1980s!  You can read about it here.




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16 comments:

  1. Lady Fi21 June 2016 at 02:44

    Ha ha - love that cone on his head!

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  2. eileeninmd21 June 2016 at 03:59

    A cone head, takes me back to the Saturday Night Live show. Happy Monday, enjoy your new week ahead!

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  3. Linda W.21 June 2016 at 05:07

    Oh I love the cone on the Duke's head! :)

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  4. TexWisGirl21 June 2016 at 06:35

    pretty funny.

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  5. Beth21 June 2016 at 07:06

    He has had a cone hat every time I have been to Glasgow.

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  6. Author R. Mac Wheeler21 June 2016 at 07:39

    I'm sure the horse was insulted

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  7. TheChieftess21 June 2016 at 08:30

    Leave it to the Scots to have such a sense of humor!!! I'm thinking the first time might have involved a bit of Beer or Whiskey!!!

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  8. Margaret Birding For Pleasure21 June 2016 at 16:20

    That is a very find statue of the Duke and he is sporting a very nice red hat

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  9. Fun6021 June 2016 at 17:53

    Nothing wrong with a bit of added colour.

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  10. chai-and-chardonnay.blogspot.com21 June 2016 at 19:39

    He wears it well.

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  11. Bob Bushell21 June 2016 at 20:14

    Lovely statue, more like this one.

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  12. NatureFootstep22 June 2016 at 00:43

    some people don´t have useful things to do I think :)

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  13. This N That22 June 2016 at 01:36

    Modern art for sure..Not all art is tasteful..Lovely statue..

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  14. John @ Beans and I on the Loose22 June 2016 at 04:58

    I was watching some V-8 Supercar racing from your land down under and the commentators referred to those cones as "witches hat" which I thought was good. In fact I like a lot of the terms they use in Australia for everyday items that we attach mundane common names to.

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  15. Klara23 June 2016 at 05:38

    ha, that's an unusual tradition. I haven't heard of such yet.

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  16. Linda24 June 2016 at 07:24

    Ha, that's a funny tradition!

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