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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2144271)

Interesting that ribbons and Marie both see something of a Metropolis robot in the MW statue; that never occured to me.

I didn't make the connection cause it doesn't look like a robot to me. What it reminded me of was the woman (who's standing) in this painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, however with a more athletic figure.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...es_au_bain.jpg

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2144271)

Also very interesting comments, Neapolitan:-

Regarding the abstract part, here is the artist's own explanation:-

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...artist Maggi Hambling said that her work "involves this tower of intermingling female forms culminating in the figure of the woman at the top who is challenging, and ready to challenge, the world."

I thought saw females wrapped in wrapped something a cocoon, or maybe Egyptian cotton sheets, but I only saw the one picture and couldn't be sure. I chalked it up to pareidolia.

Quite literally, *googles pareidolia*: that's an impressive word to have at your disposal!

One reason we've disscussed the MW statue at such length is that it seems to embody or lead into a bunch of intriguing-for-some questions:-
The history of feminism.
Do female nudes celebrate women, or send a message that they are vulnerable/available?
How do we represent the past?
To what extent should public art, like statues, educate, shock or entertain us?

But as Elph indicates, a lot has been said about just one statue, which is why I'm grateful that Neapolitan noticed the other half of my thread title: Statues of Women, and showed us a couple of others :-

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan (Post 2144176)

Here is another statue I like. The dress looks futuristic. It'a like Marie Curie step through time presenting to us that she holds the mystery of the atom.

Monument to Maria Sklodowska-Curie
https://poolemariecurie.org.uk/wp-co...ue-449x600.jpg

I like this one too, and as you say, there's a timeless quality about it.

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150 years after Mary W, in the 1920s, Margaret Sanger was promoting birth control as a road to freedom and equality for women in the USA and became the founder of the controvertial Planned Parenthood organisation - so controvertial that:

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In Boston in 1929, city officials ... threatened to arrest her if she spoke. In response she stood on stage, silent, with a gag over her mouth, while her speech was read by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.[108]

Here's a statue commemorating that brave moment, although it's a museum exhibit rather than a piece of sculpture (I think :confused:) :-

https://i1.wp.com/www.hubhistory.com.../margaret1.jpg

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2143917)

Take out the sarcasm and I totally agree. Only in this current climate of deep rooted idiocy would someone complain that a statue of a woman looks like a woman. I mean, holy ****, quit hiding your puritanical bull**** behind fake liberalism.

doesn't even look like a woman though broad looks sorta like a white Dennis Rodman