Butter Sculptures

Subject: Butter Sculptures Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:25 pm

A butter sculpture display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio, revealed on July 26, 2011. The usual cow and calf made of butter were accompanied by a butter space shuttle and astronaut to commemorate the end of the U.S. space shuttle program.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:37 pm

The American Dairy Association features an astronaut navigating in a space shuttle cockpit
as part of the butter sculpture display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio,
on July 26, 2011.
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Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:49 pm

The late Norma Lyon was "a self-described dairy farmer's wife and mother of nine who achieved fame well beyond the Midwest as the 'butter-cow lady' of the Iowa State Fair".
She died on July 24, 2011 in Marshalltown, Iowa. She was 81.
Lyon is seen here putting the finishing touches on a butter bust of President Barack Obama.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:52 pm

Sculptor Jim Victor sculpts bikini-clad model Talia Sloboda out of 200 pounds
of butter on April 4, 2002, at the Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial in Philadelphia.
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Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:55 pm

Sculptor Jim Victor sculpts bikini-clad model Talia Sloboda
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Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:56 pm

Sculptor Jim Victor sculpts bikini-clad model Talia Sloboda
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Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:00 am

A cow sculpture at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 7, 2003 in Des Moines.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:02 am

A student of tourism school finishes a Balinese dancer sculpture
made of butter during a Trade Expo in Jakarta on Oct. 29, 2009.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:14 am

A monk makes a butter sculpture of a Buddha statue
according to a picture at the Ta'er Monastery on Feb. 12, 2006,
in Huangzhong County of Qinghai Province, China.

The butter sculptures of Ta'er Monastery enjoy a high reputation in China and are displayed annually at the monastery's Lamp Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:17 am

Monks carry a butter sculpture for display at the Ta'er Monastery on Feb. 12, 2006, in Huangzhong County of Qinghai Province, China.

Butter sculpture, or 'Suyouhua,' is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist art. Made from yak butter of ghee, the sculptures are shaped as Buddhas, people, animals and flower figures. Before making the sculpture, monk artists must bath and pray during a special ritual ceremony. Since butter melts easily, the artists have to dip their hands into cold water to make their fingers cold enough before modeling the butter.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:20 am

Preparations of Butter Sculptures depicting tales from Tibetan Buddhism for the Butter Sculpture Festival at the Kumbum Monastery outside of Xining on Feb. 7, 2009, in northwest China's Qinghai province on the Tibetan plateau.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:22 am

A monk works on a butter sculpture Buddha statue according to a picture at the Ta'er Monastery on Feb. 12, 2006, in Huangzhong County of Qinghai Province, China.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:25 am

A monk puts colored butter on a basic framework to make butter sculpture, or 'Suyouhua' at the Ta'er Monastery on Feb. 12, 2006 in Huangzhong County of Qinghai Province, China.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:26 am

Monks make butter sculptures, or 'Suyouhua' at the Ta'er Monastery on Feb. 12, 2006, in Huangzhong County of Qinghai Province, China.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:28 am

Butter sculpture figures are shown at the Ta'er Monastery on Feb. 12, 2006, in Huangzhong County of Qinghai Province, China.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:30 am

A resident picks colored butter sculpture decorations for the upcoming
Tibetan new year Feb. 26, 2006, in Lhasa, Tibetan Autonomous Region, China.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:33 am

Preparations of butter sculptures depicting tales from Tibetan Buddhism for the Butter Sculpture Festival at the Kumbum Monastery outside of Xining on Feb. 7, 2009, in northwest China's Qinghai province on the Tibetan plateau.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:35 am

A man makes a donation in front of butter sculptures as preparations are under way for the Tibetan Butter Sculpture Festival at the Kumbum Monastery outside of Xining on Feb. 7, 2009, in northwest China's Qinghai province on the Tibetan plateau.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:37 am

Some 20 monks took 70 days to prepare the elaborate sculptures made of butter for display during the Butter Sculpture Festival at the Kumbum monastery, one of the six largest Geluk (Yellow Hat) monasteries, established in 1650 to mark the birthplace of Tsongkapa, founder of the Yellow Hat school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Subject: Re: Butter Sculptures Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:38 am

A boy takes a closer look at butter sculptures as preparations are under way for the Tibetan Butter Sculpture Festival at the Kumbum Monastery outside of Xining on Feb. 7, 2009, in northwest China's Qinghai province on the Tibetan plateau.

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