AIBU - Princess Diana new statue

[ForeverAintEnough3]

She was a style icon yet she’s in one of those frumpy waist belts that were only in fashion briefly. The face does nothing to represent how beautiful she was. It’s too harsh.

Yes blaming Harry is rather ridiculous. No one knows except the sculptor why it’s turned out so badly.

Is it terrible to think it actually looks better from the back. Still not great but most certainly better than it does from the front.

@Clawdy

So we are now getting comments implying it must be Harry's influence that made the statue awful. Couldn't be good old William , or both of them.....just an excuse for more spiteful comments about Harry.

Exactly and more micro aggressions. Harry's influence re including a black child, 'good old William' wouldn't have done that.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame Harry either. They both wanted Diana to be represented as a mother figure as that is his they saw her. It isn’t how the public saw her though. It would have worked if they had put themselves in the sculpture but I can see why they didn’t want that. Random children and an artist that prefers men and that is the sculpture you get.

@Clawdy

So we are now getting comments implying it must be Harry's influence that made the statue awful. Couldn't be good old William , or both of them.....just an excuse for more spiteful comments about Harry.

People are totally batshit.

It’s not so much the content but I think the clash been sculptor natural feel and what the end result is

It could have had children and been quite different in feel

Is it Pierce Brosnan?

The rear view looks awfully as if she is going to throw the children into the lake.

@itsnotmeitsu 🤣 I feel there’s still time to add an albatross.

Who cares! She is only important to her immediate family. The rest of us should have moved on by now...

@MuckyPlucky

Is it Pierce Brosnan?

No, I believe it's chiselled stone.

The sad thing is that a great sculpture can retain relevance and emotional impact even as those who knew the person depicted personally, or who lived at the same time, pass away.

Even the anticipation of the Venus De Milo caused much consternation, but in the end it all turned out to be 'armless.

Can someone explain the albatross to me please. I seem to have missed whatever it was that happened involving an albatross.

I don't like it, but I didn't hold high hopes to begin with, it's a tricky brief.

Good to know it's all Harry's fault. The Canadian heatwave is Harry's fault too. Him and his wife are awful people at a sculptural and world climate changing, level!

shamedbysiri

There ye go

Bit shocked with the sculptor, the statues are out of proportion. The children are adult proportions not children proportions, check out the head sizes between them and Princess Di. Our heads grow very little from babyhood to adulthood, hence a one-year-old has difficulty in reaching the top of their heads. These proportions gradually change as our body size catches up with our head size, this is not so with this statue - hence its wierdness.

@category12

The sculptor, who is very talented, wasn’t getting to work on his preferred subject matter - he is more inspired by the male form according to his website

Yeah, really shows.

Yes. That heavy bust is a bit threatening.

The proportions of the children is interesting. It so happen that the sculptor was working on a piece depicting Licoricia of Winchester, a medieval woman, around the same time (pic 1 - Licoricia by the same sculptor). He has certainly chosen similar proportions for the child in that work, reflecting the medieval aesthetic, which tended to show babies and children looking like small adults (pic 2 - medieval art).

It’s tempting to wonder whether there was some cross-fertilisation of ideas and if the sculptor hadn’t been in a medieval mindset, the children might have looked different.

Pure speculation on my part, of course. I’d love to ask the sculptor!

@OutwiththeOutCrowd

The proportions of the children is interesting. It so happen that the sculptor was working on a piece depicting Licoricia of Winchester, a medieval woman, around the same time (pic 1 - Licoricia by the same sculptor). He has certainly chosen similar proportions for the child in that work, reflecting the medieval aesthetic, which tended to show babies and children looking like small adults (pic 2 - medieval art).

It’s tempting to wonder whether there was some cross-fertilisation of ideas and if the sculptor hadn’t been in a medieval mindset, the children might have looked different.

Pure speculation on my part, of course. I’d love to ask the sculptor!

This is far far better

The woman is done with grace and form

I really wonder what happened

@Sylvan92

Yes blaming Harry is rather ridiculous. No one knows except the sculptor why it’s turned out so badly.

It works both ways, lots of people blaming William for not being nice enough to Harry, for looking miserable then others blaming Harry for them not liking the statue. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

If people of Licoricia's time were around they'd probably be complaining that she was taller/shorter/fatter/thinner/better looking/worse looking. We don't know so just accept it.

Both sons would have spoken out if they disliked the statue and it would not now be standing in the gardens of KP.

@sirvixofvixHall it reminded me of Michael Jackson as soon as I saw it too🤣.

We need Jarvis to run about in front of it pretending to flash his bum.