Posted on 08/04/2022 12:20:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Sir Anthony Gormley used steel blocks to create his piece called “Alert,” which was meant to portray a human squatting, but the students think it appears more equivalent to an “erect penis” instead.
Gormley released a statement that appeared on the school’s website.
“Through the conversion of anatomy into an architectural construction I want to re-assess the relation between body and space. Balancing on the balls of the feet while squatting on its haunches and surveying the world around it, the attitude of this sculpture is alive, alert and awake,” he wrote.
Another concern was “Alert” being “exclusionary” by showing a man and not a woman.
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First off, this moronic steel construction is anything but art. If the constructor was paid any more than the article’s worth as scrap metal, he is a proficient CON artist and no other kind. The people who decided to display it (even for free) are morons, and everyone who thinks it represents anything but steel rectangular boxes welded to each other, is so brain dead that they gave it a second glance.
AND WHO SAYS IT EXCLUDES WOMEN!!! HAVEN’T THESE MORONS GOTTEN THE NEWS???
The most creative thing Sir Con Artist did was NAME IT!
What would they do if they saw the Washington Monument???
Dunces
A statue of David comes to mind
A statue of David comes to mind
It offends me. The celebration of bad art always seems to get me.
Funny movie
It might resemble the one finger salute. Artists like to embed abstract messages in them. Picasso was famous for that.
No self-respecting pigeon would crap on that thing.
I was thinking more of something like these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus#/media/File:The_Hindu_God_Shiva_LACMA_M.69.15.1_(2_of_3).jpg
https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/F11.1.html
(And since ‘all cultures are equal’, I can’t figure out why these college tyros are so upset about this. As someone else posted, it just looks like a wooden finger to the world.)
I agree. Ugly, yes, phallic, no.
I’ll het they wouldn’t have been offended if it had been a gigantic representation of the “f” word.
With "Trump" next to it.
Leaves nothing to the imagination
It would probably get tetanus if it did. I can see trying to simulate the patina of aged bronze or copper, but rust only brings to mind decay.
“And the Earth was formless and void”
Luciferian chaos.
Clanging cymbals
Cover the eyes
Cover the ears
I see penises everywhere! Everywhere!
“The sculpture doesn’t look phallic, human, male, female, crouching, squatting, or interesting.”
I’m an artist too, and I agree with you completely.
They’re not supposed to. They’re meant to be obvious.
That they are
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