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Sarkozys Immortalized In Cardboard And Wood (PHOTO)


First Posted: 05/15/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:50 PM ET

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A painter works on a Falla, a gigantic sculpted structure of cardboard and wood which humorously portrays relevant current events and personalities, caricaturizing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni during preparations for the Fallas Festival, on March 15, 2010 in Valencia. The Fallas will be burned in the streets of Valencia on March 19, 2010, as a tribute to St. Joseph, patron saint of the carpenters' guild. (Photo JOSE JORDAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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A painter works on a Falla, a gigantic sculpted structure of cardboard and wood which humorously portrays relevant current events and personalities, caricaturizing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and...
A painter works on a Falla, a gigantic sculpted structure of cardboard and wood which humorously portrays relevant current events and personalities, caricaturizing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and...
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HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR
seachild
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04:54 AM on 03/23/2010
I thought it was really THEM!
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noudidnt
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07:14 AM on 03/17/2010
Sark is gonna be pi zzed
lol
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MBryant
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01:26 PM on 03/16/2010
Unless you believe it is a supernatural ceremony - how is someone "Immortalized" by being portrayed in carboard that is to be burned? Sometimes the HuffPost headline writers, well...
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Papasito
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07:16 PM on 03/15/2010
Beautiful art! Too bad they are burned.
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LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
1544 Fans
06:32 PM on 03/15/2010
Ah yes, the fallas. When my parents went to Spain in 1992, they saw the fallas getting burned.

Those sculptures look like something from a Jan Svankmajer cartoon.
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