It may be because I'm so anti-royals but this new statue makes me cringe. What says the caf?
Statue of Diana
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It’s fecking cringe. We have Diana overload in terms of monuments. Diana fountain, Diana walk, Diana statue, another Diana fountain. Just fecking spend the money on something useful rather than filling public spaces with this shite.
Even the fecking Wonder Woman is named after her.
Innit.
Look at this shite -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Memorials_to_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales
sticking statues of children in is a bit weird. The way she's holding them makes me think they're being sacrificed to some deity
I can't get past the identical bald heads
Statues in general are a bit weird to me now. Older ones are fine but we live in an age where we can easily see what the person actually looked like. And it seems most modern statue artists can't quite capture people the way they used to.
Never knew Harry was that bald. He looks like he has a regular head of hair from the front.
It may be because I'm so anti-royals but this new statue makes me cringe. What says the caf?
Who's the girl in the statue?
Nice to see he boys maintaining social distancing.
Maybe Charles is the father after all?
Absolute cringe. Feck royalty , inbred elite bastards. Use taxpayer money for things that serve the public good not monuments to rich people.
I think they should have had the girl being piggybacked Diana and she should really be wearing Forrest Gum style leg braces. The boy should be in a wheelchair and one hand should be deformed by leprosy. Diana should be kneeling kneeling down digging up a landmine with her spare hand, somewhere in Africa. If they had known that Phillip would have just died when they commissioned it they could have honoured him by putting one of the kids in blackface, B&W Minstrels style.
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I think it's a fair representation, she liked children and supported various charities around, well, kids. The only other things that might have made more sense might have been: -
Diana in swimming cozzie seated on edge of diving board
Diana seated in front of Taj Mahal (the real one, not a various curry house)
Diana in semi-protective but more glamorous gear holding mine detector outward
Diana seated in armchair with tears falling from eyes.
These are the things I remember her for. Oh, and big hair and shoulder pads, this statue has kind of updated her fashion wise.
Diana in swimming cozzie seated on edge of diving board
Diana seated in front of Taj Mahal (the real one, not a various curry house)
Diana in semi-protective but more glamorous gear holding mine detector outward
Diana seated in armchair with tears falling from eyes.
These are the things I remember her for. Oh, and big hair and shoulder pads, this statue has kind of updated her fashion wise.
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The Guardian had an article yesterday absolutely panning this statue. I was just saying to oates that a bust on a plinth would have been a more elegant option.
The sculptor is very highly-regarded (we were looking at his website yesterday), but he says himself that he prefers to sculpt male figures. He does a lot of nudes, male torsos, that kind of thing. This being a clothed woman, it's maybe not his best work. It looks wooden.
I predict thousands of bunches of flowers around this statue in no time at all. And balloons. And "Queen of Hearts" signs.
The sculptor is very highly-regarded (we were looking at his website yesterday), but he says himself that he prefers to sculpt male figures. He does a lot of nudes, male torsos, that kind of thing. This being a clothed woman, it's maybe not his best work. It looks wooden.
I predict thousands of bunches of flowers around this statue in no time at all. And balloons. And "Queen of Hearts" signs.
I like this
, I wonder how far we could have taken it. Have her holding documents that would have brought about peace with Israel Palestine, and stopping climate change.I was thinking of Diana throwing up in a toilet with Charlie and Camillla shagging behind her. Too much?I like this
Can we get a Christopher Hitchens statue opposite?
Does she have a higher approval rating than the queen?
The children are just random children. The boy on the left seems to be a representation of a black child, no idea about the hiding-behind-the-legs one.
That explains why she looks like a man then. Richard Madeley struck me when looking at it.
Hiding from Prince Andrew?
They should have had her as a half terminator or mutant minotaur just for the sheer what the feck factor.
The funny thing is if the woman were still alive she would be embarrassed that the money was wasted on this when there are children and people in need not just around the world but in this country. I've got nothing against the Royals, I'm completely indifferent to them but if they wanted to make a fitting tribute they should have donated the money to a children's hospital and put a plaque on a wall at an entrance. I think that would be more fitting of her legacy.
Now where's my life sized model of Alf .
Oh right I just thought the girl had four legs and Diana was being kind to the little freakshow.
Couldn't agree more except to say that we already have plenty of hospitals named after her.
Diana looks okay.It may be because I'm so anti-royals but this new statue makes me cringe. What says the caf?
William and Harry as kids is a little off IMO.
Id go to see that!
This a smart political move: erecting a new statue to get the family reunited and the royalty "stronger".
I would have liked Diana smiling.
I would have liked Diana smiling.
Utter wastemans.
Seems more like she's the deity, protecting and guiding the kids.
Yeah in my head she is the deity, but the children are sent to her once a month to be sacrificed or something.
Your reading is the intent though, I think I read last night on some article about the sculptor mentioning it was due to her love of children and the work she did with them, and that the original idea of her being the lone statue made it look a little lonely so children were added.
It would have been genuinely impressive if they'd gone for a Colossus of Rhodes type effect.
Alala. I was thinking about the statue of Cristiano when I wrote my post
That would have been wonderfulA statue showing you loving other peoples kids?
Shouldn't it look more like Charles?
Shouldn't it look more like Charles?
Not set on the dress choice of the little lad on the left. Who on earth wears shorts with a jacket?
That whole Isis goddess/Mother Mary thing is still strong in the human psyche. Just looks...odd!
That was in my home town
They ended up locking the thing up and it was just sat as a locked box for ages. Imagine what it looked like by the time they got rid of it