Do Living Statues Qualify as Street Art?

We were on our first trip to Spain in 2010 and walking toward the Plaza Major in central Madrid when we came across a copy of August Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Kiss.” We stopped and gazed for a minute or so admiring the work of art. And then they moved! <img alt="Living statues emulating the pose of Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Kiss” (“El Beso in Spanish)." src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:770/1*0cnuZ-yGPWwR0l4CbjBMzw.jpeg" style="height:1050px; width:700px" /> Living statues in Madrid, 2010. Photo by Jerry Dwyer. It was our first encounter with a living statue in Spain and we were fooled! Two years later we were back in Europe cruising down the Rhine River. On our sixth day on the river, we arrived in Cologne and spent about an hour touring the magnificent cathedral. Then we spent another hour walking around the huge plaza in front of the cathedral and encountered our first German living statues. <a href="https://medium.com/globetrotters/do-living-statues-qualify-as-street-art-dd2780e49b1f">Learn More</a>