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Frogner Park , reachable on tram #12 and #15 from the centre (get off at Vigelandsparken), holds one of Oslo's most striking cultural targets in the Vigeland Sculpture Park , which commemorates another modern Norwegian artist of world renown, Gustav Vigeland. The open-air sculptures, which Vigeland started in 1924 and was still working on when he died in 1943, are simply fantastic. A long series of life-size figures frowning, fighting and posing lead up to the central fountain, an enormous bowl representing the burden of life, supported by straining, sinewy bronze Goliaths while, underneath, water tumbles out around clusters of playing and standing figures. The twenty-metre obelisk up on the stepped embankment behind, and the grouped granite sculptures around it, comprise the summation of the work, a writhing mass which depicts the cycle of life as Vigeland saw it. The park comes to life in summer when the city's inhabitants come out to play and enjoy the green space.
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