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Silver? Bronze? Really? I had understood that the statue was crafted out of Marmite.
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I'm surprised that a figure representing the "spirit of women" was given an idealised body that is largely unachievable for the majority. But I'm a man, and sculpture is very much not my thing, so my opinion shouldn't really count.
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So the figure is actually really small then. Yeah that just looks stupid.
Now if it was bronze coloured it would at least look like a tree and then work a bit better against the trees there. But yeah it looks like a lost opportunity more than anything else to me. |
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I don't like it, at all. It's a lazy and stereotyped 'off the peg' woman and I'm amazed that anyone thinks it's a fitting tribute or memorial to Wollstonecraft. But she doesn't need a statue - her ideas and her writing are her memorial.
Is there still a topiary George Eliot outside Nuneaton station? Give me that any day. |
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Depicts the spirit of women? if you say so...
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Given how small the figure is and so how difficult it seems to see the detail from the ground I do wonder if most of the controversy was among people who hadn't even seen it in the flesh, so to speak. That might have been a deliberate intention on the part of the designer, or just poorly thought through. Like Frank, sculpture isn't really my thing so I wouldn't like to guess which. I'll stick with the blue plaque in Southwark.
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I think the fact that the woman is small and out of sight is part of the problem.
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its a barbie doll on basically a penis... its had several suffragette ponchos made for it as well.. you'd struggle to find a women who approves
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Oh god, it absolutely is, isn't it. What was she thinking?
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