do you fnd this attractive or sick?
 

Damien Hirst's giant bronze statue of a pregnant woman

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-lnwE6iLP3...gin_mother.jpg

The artistic merit of Damien Hirst's giant bronze statue of a pregnant woman has split opinions in Ilfracombe, but it also raises the issue of the role of public art in regenerating a town.

She has been called outrageous, immoral, bizarre, obscene, offensive, disgusting, grotesque, a monstrosity, of no artistic merit and demeaning to women.

Others see her as beautiful and unique, with the power to transform a town's tired image and boost its economy.

This week Damien Hirst's 20.25m (66ft) bronze artwork - known as Verity - is being installed in the Devon seaside town of Ilfracombe.

The artwork is on 20-year loan from controversial artist Hirst, who lives locally and owns a restaurant in the town.

The naked pregnant figure stands looking out from Ilfracombe Harbour, sword held aloft, with part of her anatomy exposed - a baby visible in the womb.

The decision by North Devon Council to grant the statue planning permission follows months of vigorous debate by both the "yes" and "no" camps.

"We need to have a second string to our bow," says Ilfracombe councillor Mike Edmunds, who can see the new arrival from his bedroom window.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19881524

i find this interesting

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Does it have to be attractive or sick? I think it is a statue...

I find it interestingly disturbing :1orglaugh

everyone will have an opinion about it and voice their opinion... that makes it effective in my opinion.

to echo previous statements, it is interesting

Really cook and dare we say educational?

I think it's pretty cool

I think the problem is that its not being put in say a big town, but in a pretty seaside village.

the best interview from a lady was that she said there were enough pregnent women there all ready.

that made me giggle.

I can't fap to this

With all due respect, I think it is sort of strange to address art as "attractive or sick". For me this was "live from beginning to end". Full of contradictions.

As always I saw something that wasn't there. It is called "the virgin mother".

Quote> Hirst explains the significance of the reference to Degas: “It is kind of naughty; she shouldn't really be pregnant. I wanted a feeling of that. Anyone who is pregnant looks old enough, that's the problem.” < Quote

The better question would simply be, why ??

neither, it's a bit unusual, but probably more appropriate in some museum or medical school...

Yeah, wheres the problem

Only a SICK Fucker can consider that cool.

You are FULL OF SHIT, Asshole.

Opinions are split.. I get it. Good one. Well done. Pat on the back.

It seems to be a fine statue with a statement and all that. Better off in a museum possibly but I wouldn't mind if I walked past it twice a day. It's a lot more thoughtful than some guy on a horse for instance.

I think there will be twins.

It will be famous for a little while. Wait for the pigeons to add to it and it will look like the eye sore it is.

Neither :pimp

Art is intended to evoke an emotion and it seems to have done so "well done mr hurst"

That is awesome!

Would have been better if he hadn?t cut her fingers off

Art is to create emotion. It obviously worked.

I would love to see that in front of a university, medical school or hospital.

Reminds us of the horrors of pregnancy ...

Interesting, educational, intriguing. Wouldn't want it in my garden but that's art for ya, it's the definition of subjective.

Really cool!

Very creative and interesting!

Is boredom an emotion? That's all Hirst has ever evoked, since his first 'shocking' dead-animals-in-glass-boxes 'art'.

Watch this excellent documentary, from the great, and sadly now late, Robert Hughes:

sorry i should have said "seems to have done so here" meaning this thread, personally i don't give a crap for art, most of it is overpriced TAT

Interesting. Like something from a medical book.

It's all about (inflated) price. That's what that documentary is about, how art isn't, and hasn't been for a long time, valued on artistic grounds, but as in commodity or investment terms.

blablabla bla blablabla FUCK OFF

tell me something i don't already know then i may watch a video on the subject

The less hurl worthy of Hirst's stuff. I find it compelling.

In the immortal words of Spock.... I find it fascinating.

attention whore высер.

it reminds me of mothers day

when I saw the statue laying on its side I almost jizzed all over it

Well, yeah. Since when did the average artist not want people to look at their work?

Someone needs to glue the end of a vacuum cleaner to the vagina in order to help support abortion rights....




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Perhaps you have no idea who Damien Hirst is. :1orglaugh

Of all the Hirst pieces out there, I like this the best. However, I much prefer a KAWS Dissected companion to it for a fraction of the price:
http://i.imgur.com/pnP90.jpg
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it's interesting

its the human body. when you go to high school its called biology

The left side reminds me of "Mars Attacks" for some reason

Nor this or that !!!

That would be great in Dr Who actually as a weeping angel, don't take your eyes off it for one second, don't even blink.