New Trafalgar sculpture

[Dudley]

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What do you reckon?

[House of Usher]

I reckon I was really surprised when I saw this on the BBC news website, because we seemed to be talking about this more or less when I first joined the website, and not being a Londoner myself, I had imagined the statue had already been finished, put in place, and possibly even been replaced by another one already.

[Banners]

Seem 'armless.

M@

[House of Usher]

Link: http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=messagethread&choice=7309" target="_blank">Thread 7309, March 2004

[Steve Green]

It all seems a bit gratingly worthy to me.

I'm not very big on statues of living people, it seems wrong somehow - that said I think the statue of Thatcher without a head might have gone down better.

- Steve

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2779597.stm" target="_blank">Thatch minus head

[House of Usher]

I think vandalism is reprehensible, but that was... so cool!

And yeah, statues of living people, a bit wrong; but it's not a statue of Alison Lapper as such, is it? It's about her body.

[Matt Timson]

Bet you'd think it slightly less cool if it'd been your sculpture- no matter who it was of.

It reminds me of that 'comedy terrorist' no-mark who daubed paint over somebody's work in a gallery- just for the resulting attention.  Call me a neanderthal if you will, but if that'd been my work, he'd have gotten himself some attention of an entirely different and altogether unpleasant nature.  The wanker...

[Adrian Bamforth]

I saw a BBC news page with people's opinions on it and somebody had written that it was the modern "Venus De Milo". I mean it must be just as good - this one hasn't got arms either!

ADE

[Trout]

I think it's beautiful.

Honestly.

[DavidXBrunt]

So do I. I can't properly express why but it's just really engaging and quite lovely.

[Floyd-the-k]

a bit gratingly worthy, yet also lovely and engaging

[Quirkafleeg]

I think it's the best thing they have on the plinth so far

[johnnystress]

now this is art!http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ferguson/spinal-tap/IntravenusDeMilo.gif">

[johnnystress]

The statue is nice but , and it might be just the wierd angle causing the foreshortned leg effect, it reminds me a lot of Joel Peter Witkin weirdness

Link: http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/witkin/jpwdefault.html" target="_blank">Joel Peter Witkin Oddities

http://photoscope.iatp.by/witkin/13.jpg">

[Trout]

No, Johnny, the subject of the sculpture has short legs.

- Trout