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[hafital]

Solid Gold Moss Statue Revealed.

This has been in the UK news all week (what can I say, I'm starving for stimuli at work, so I troll bbc.com) and I just CANNOT get over it.

A 50kg solid gold statue of model Kate Moss has been unveiled at the British Museum, in London.

'Ideal beauty

Comments

[pocketmouse]

o_0

...it's like she's giving birth to herself.

It kinda makes me think of that statue of Britney Spears giving birth.

[ariestess]

A. don't get the pose outside of being too crotch-oriented.

B. Since when is Kate Moss the feminine ideal? Wasn't she usurped about 4 or 5 years ago?

[hafital]

Yeah, she's so 5 years ago. :D I thought the same thing. I was like, Kate Moss really? REALLY? but whatever. I think it's an ugly statue. Kate's pretty but that statue is ass (pun intended. hahah).

[ariestess]

Yeah, that's just ass-ugly... That goes as far as fugly...

[klia]

It reminds me of Victoria Wood's song "Had It Up To Here" from The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, which said men want women who are "a combination of Olga Korbut, Raquel Welch and Rin Tin Tin." Apparently, whoever commissioned that sculpture agreed.

If I were KM, I wouldn't be feeling flattered or happy with the end result, that's for damn sure. Way too crotchitorial. Ick.

a combination of Olga Korbut, Raquel Welch and Rin Tin Tin

[laurashapiro]

Hey, it's literal! In a pose like that, she can lick her own ass, just like the dog!

Re: a combination of Olga Korbut, Raquel Welch and Rin Tin Tin

[klia]

I know. It's just... ick, ick, ick.

[unovis]

At the British Museum?
That's awful.

ETA: Oh, I see. It's not as horrible, explained by the artist in the article. The "Aphrodite of our times" is nonsense. I didn't realize the BM collected contemporary art, either. Big mistake.

[hafital]

I wonder what his other "Alison Lapper Pregnant" statue looks like. And from lower down in the article: Meanwhile, The National Portrait Gallery has launched a public appeal to raise £200,000 for Marc Quinn's self-portrait head cast made from frozen blood.

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I mean, I admittedly am not up on the art world, particularly the modern art world, but that seems extreme.

[unovis]

I can understand Quinn's work, but I don't really enjoy looking at most of it. I don't like most of the work of the "Young British Artists" school. I admire what he did with the Alison Lapper sculpture, relevant to her life and her own work, more than the Kate Moss one (info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Lapper... )

[hafital]

:D That was fascinating. And see, I totally need to view modern art with someone who knows art or I won't get it. Obviously you can deconstruct art the same as a story, but I lack the tools for this.

[kres]

Crotch indeed. Brrr.