Posted on 07/07/2021 6:51:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The sculpture is of a young, distraught boy standing atop a red tower with a melting shark in his arms, a visual warning of rising sea levels and the destruction they could wreak.
But for some residents on the southern edge of Vancouver's False Creek, the proposed 7.8-metre-tall sculpture, to be installed temporarily amid manicured lawns and waterfront residences, is a blemish.
"Do I think the art is suitable for this location? No," said Maggie Rayner, a resident of a neighbouring building, while strolling past the site Sunday afternoon.
"I don't think it's appropriate, the scale for the space."
Those comments have been echoed by a group of residents who have set up a sign in protest at the proposed site, a small elevated park space bordering the bike path near Stamps Landing.
The disapproval has led to an online petition with more than 1,000 signatures.
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Art is about creating discussion, not esthetics and beauty. True art should make you feel uncomfortable and make you question the society you live in.
If it doesn't make you cringe it's not art.
End sarcasm.
*Bullshit artist, that is.
The kids in the sculpture remind me of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies. It’s hot in Mordor.
Is the red guy laughing or barfing?
When the talent less demand equal time.
He's dying from malnutrition, he was taught in school it was cool not to eat meat, now this.
Climate BS...... 1921 - 2021 Rise in Sea water levels..... NONE!
As a famous art critic once stated: That is some ugly-ass art.
That’s Ben Dover...........................
Shrks have only been around 450 million years. Having survived the age of the dinosaurs and several ice ages and interglacial period, of course they will now melt when the seas rise by 2 mm.
Jeez Louise!
It has been said, “I can’t define ‘art’, but I’ll know it when I see it.”
This isn’t art.
Seattle has a Naked man holding a naked little boy in an inappropriate way.....UGH!!
I’ve been to Amsterdam and I’ve seen public art that should draw more criticism (but doesn’t).
The emperor has NO clothes! What’s with the melting fish?
“Shrks have only been around 450 million years.”
Furthermore, a rising sea level (not that it’s happening) would be great for the sharks and all the fishies.
Wait, whut? That was sarcasm?
I thought he was pinching out a ten wiper.
The art world has gone Woke. Is this artist Black, or come from the alphabet group? Talent is no longer a consideration.
What is with all this pervy art?
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