So as per real news places, a new statue celebrating the pioneer of feminism has been unveiled. Mostly it's an abstract form, but with a doll sized version of her (or potentially just a generic woman?), in the top. Naked.
It's not like the creator, Maggi Hambling, isn't going to have huuuuge motivations and ideas behind what she created, what was selected to be created by committee in line with another more conventional submission. She looks empowered, she looks determined. She also looks like she has lovely bazongas, that'd be fun to have a go on... :-/
I don't think it's at all fair to say that it's just crass or anything, that simply can't be the case from the artists perspective, however seems to me that anything like this needs to be able to be looked at through the eyes of someone without the context. People need to be able to not know anything about this when they first see it, so given it does align to the tropes of female nudity in art and such... a bad choice? |
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I like the statue and Maggi Hambling (iPlayer still has a documentary about her 'Maggi Hambling: Making Love to the Paint').
Maggi chainsmokes and has a certain 'fuck you' attitude and she has said the statue is not supposed to be an actual representation of Mary Wollstonecraft but to be 'Everywoman'. And it's not her first controversial statue.
Whatever anyone thinks about the statue it has got people talking about Mary Wollstonecraft  |
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