This sculpture was made for the memorial of the victims of the holocaust. George Segal sculpture is in San Fransico, Lincoln Park overviewing the Golden Gate Bridge. His sculptures are made of casting living person directly in plaster. A pile of corpses lies behind a standing man and they are all behind a barbed wired fence. George Segal took pictures taken after the Allied liberation of the concentration camps to help guide him. The man by the fence is based on a Bourke White photograph and was modeled after one of Gerorges friend who was a Israeli survivor of the camps. The bodies were laid out in a specific way in order to be symbolic. One figure is in a Christ like position to remind the viewers that Jesus was Jewish. Another figure is holding a apple to remind viewers of the original sin of the Bible and connection between the Jewish and Christian faiths and the literature that binds them. I really like how this sculpture has a lot of symbolic meanings in it and it remind people of the horrible things that have happened in our history.
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