Gustav Vigeland created about 192 life-size statues in this park. Pictures do not convey the feeling of sculpture carved out of granite. Often postcards and articles focus on Vigeland's erotic themes. However, those are only some of the motives. In the park there is every manner of emotion and experience expressed: fatherly love, inconsolable grief, comfortable affection. Below to the right you see the realistic statue that might be titled "Grrl Power" these days.
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At the center of the park is the Monolith. Edvard Munch complained that Vigeland had copied the theme from Munch's painting Towards the Light. However, it took three stone carvers fourteen years to complete the Monolith, working daily and beginning in 1929. Vigeland may just as well have been inspired by Trajan's Column, it seems to Diane.
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