Londoners Slam Latest Woke Sculpture:
‘Hideous Political Trash’
Breitbart Europe,
by
Olivia Rondeau
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/17/2024 2:14:36 AM
The latest “contemporary” sculpture to be unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square has sparked an uproar, with critics slamming the cartoonish figure as “hideous political trash.”
The square has been home to many art installations over the decades, with the Fourth Plinth featuring a rotating cast of artworks every few years since 1999. Detractors aren’t surprised that the sculpture has been changed, but that the latest replacement doesn’t appear to represent native Londoners.Lady in Blue is a sculpture of a black woman with abstract proportions, including strangely long arms and very pronounced buttocks and legs.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 3/17/2024 3:54:04 AM (No. 1679258)
Just part of the uglification of civilization. Fits right in with the tattoo bodies and piercings, graffiti, feces, hypodermic needles, litter and drugged out bodies of addicts sprawled on sidewalks and parks. Welcome to the new normal.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
SALady 3/17/2024 3:56:13 AM (No. 1679259)
Wow, that is just plain U-G-L-Y!!!!!!!!!
Remember when statues in public places were incredible tributes to heroes, that took talent to make?!?!?!? Now they are cartoonish woke jokes!!!!!
23 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 3/17/2024 4:53:26 AM (No. 1679283)
Oprah?
26 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 3/17/2024 5:18:53 AM (No. 1679299)
It is NOT ugly. But it does faithfully represent an honest perspective of a common Black female body type of African heritage. And even more it depicts a proudly moving Black woman - what we see that has happened in fatherless Black families where woman have sadly been forced to head their families.
5 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
plomke 3/17/2024 5:33:15 AM (No. 1679308)
Nobody will mistake this for Nelson at Trafalgar or Wellington astride his mount.
Although its not as bad as the headline makes out.
It could be worse.
Picture Big Mike and her package...
18 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/17/2024 6:00:25 AM (No. 1679318)
FTA:‘Hideous Political Trash’
Must be pictures of McAfee, Engoron, Biden and Schumer!
10 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rather Read 3/17/2024 6:51:57 AM (No. 1679331)
It isn't that bad. It's a lot better than that "tribute" sculpture to Martin Luther King and his wife that was just a couple of pairs of arms. At certain angles it was downright grotesque. Google The Embrace sculpture to see how bad it is.
9 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Newtsche 3/17/2024 8:07:46 AM (No. 1679366)
Looks like an R. Crumb fever dream.
9 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
downnout 3/17/2024 8:15:47 AM (No. 1679377)
Compare and contrast with the magnificent art of the Renaissance- good grief, how society has fallen.
19 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/17/2024 8:17:00 AM (No. 1679381)
Tear it down!
10 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
padiva 3/17/2024 8:35:56 AM (No. 1679407)
Michelle Obama????
However, it is a pretty shade of blue.
12 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/17/2024 9:59:47 AM (No. 1679452)
"Ape Runs Through Clothes Line And Comes Out With A Blue Dress On"
Yes - - I like the title anyway.
8 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 3/17/2024 10:06:01 AM (No. 1679460)
It's kinda got a Kim Kardashian thing going about it, doesn't it???
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/17/2024 10:16:18 AM (No. 1679467)
It looks like your typical black Karen that complains in McDonalds and fights at the drop of a hat to me.
12 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/17/2024 11:07:43 AM (No. 1679486)
It makes me wonder if the artist isn't promoting the old calumny that blacks are little better than baboons? I could imagine this during the debates on the morality of slavery back in the early 1800s, or in the pages of a penny-dreadful.
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 3/17/2024 11:12:53 AM (No. 1679492)
Walk the streets of any U.S. city, and there are live versions of this statue walking around.
7 people like this.
It looks like something out of a Thomas Hart Benton painting or Soviet Era art. These things come and go.
6 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
FLCracker 3/17/2024 12:17:02 PM (No. 1679532)
Oh! I get it!
It's an illustration of:
"She's the devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on"
6 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
janjan 3/17/2024 12:38:08 PM (No. 1679537)
If I were a black woman I would be completely offended by that. What a racist caricature of black females.
5 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 3/17/2024 1:02:39 PM (No. 1679543)
I see nothing "abstract" about that statue's "proportions".
4 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/17/2024 2:00:35 PM (No. 1679564)
I've seen that shape in Walmart.
7 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/18/2024 1:59:35 AM (No. 1679899)
I think I saw the 'model' for that 'sculpture' walking down the sidewalk in New Orleans the last time I was down there.
4 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/18/2024 8:00:14 AM (No. 1680004)
It looks like lots of stylized ethnic Black art. It isn't horrible as people are saying. No, it is not everyone's cup of tea, but other might see themselves in it. Art should get a reaction from the viewer. This sculpture certainly does.
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