Posted on 08/23/2009 7:30:59 PM PDT by OneVike
One of the more controversial of all the 9/11 memorials is an artwork originally entitled "Tear Of Grief", a forty-foot stainless steel teardrop suspended within a 100-foot-tall, 175-ton, bronze-clad tower that is now officially entitled "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism". This extraordinary work is a gift to the United States from the people of Russia and from its creator, renowned sculptor Zurab Tsereteli. Mr. Tsereteli first envisioned the image of the "Tear Of Grief" on September
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You should have stopped after talent.
Reminds me of the plastic scrotums you see hanging off the tow hitches of trucks driven by the inbred. The same kind that scream “o” during the national anthem at oriole games.
I kinda like it.
Why?
When you read the reason he had the motivation to do it, you come away with a better feeling for it. The Russian’s tears for the pain we were suffering. I find it very fitting. Especially since we are the reason they are free today.
> I appreciate the sentiment, but it looks kind of creepy....
I dunno... I kinda like it. It’s unusual, but interesting.
Well in all fairness, their women is hotter and more educated than ours.
Do you drive a prius?
Like I said, I appreciate the sentiment and motivation behind the artist’s design, but it looks very strange to me. It’s no Statue of Liberty or Vietnam Veterans Wall.
> Why?
I’ll try to answer that: it’s a good question. First off, you look at it and it can’t be anything other than art. It can’t have any other useful purpose.
Compare and contrast with, say, the Washington Monument. Yes, it’s art but it could just as easily be an air traffic control tower, or more likely a minaret. (Shhh... we might give Someone Ideas...)
It is evocative of two broken towers — the two columns were once joined as one but are now broken, yet they act as an interesting frame to the Chrome tear-shaped Thingamee.
(Quite an interesting piece of engineering, that Chrome Thingamee. Even assuming it is hollow it would weigh a fair bit if it’s made of metal, and yet its entire mass is suspended from a comparatively tiny point at the top. And if there is any significant wind blowing it could cause some interesting stresses on the overall structure — there will have been some significant engineering calculations gone into that to make the whole thing stable.)
It doesn’t look like American art, which is lucky because it’s Russian, and it’s interesting in a Post-Stalinist Red Square way. It’s unique, and it “grows” on you.
Very well stated. I liked it at first sight...
I drive a Buick primarily, and you apparently have a soft spot (between the ears-?!) for TACKY-!!
You should have stopped after talent.
This is what I was questioning, not the art itself.
Remind me to ask you to describe a piece of art I might decide to create some day.
If it were a book and that was a review, I would be online trying to buy the book now.
You did an excellent job.
(Grin!) Thanks!
Ah. My mistake.
Ah, Buick. Yes. That makes sense.
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