Alison Lapper Pregnant

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I think it's great! link

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this was when she was pregnant with Parys a few years ago.

I think it's saying she sat for the making of the statue when she was 8 months pg (which was over 5yrs ago )

Unless I'm missing something

I don't really like or dislike it but I can't see the point of it - is she a national hero?

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Hmmm. I don't know what I think about this, can't decide.

I think that she is a far greater role model as a mother - she has doen a lto of work supporting the rights of people with disabilities to be aprents. So why do the statute of her naked?? It is ugly. A statute of her with her son, adnsome clothes on would have been far more appropriate IMO.

I think the celebration of womanhood is a point about disability not affecting womanhood?
Ive seen some of her own work, she is a good painter herself.

I think the whole point is that she is not a national hero!

I like the idea of it because it calls into question our view of why we celebrate people - great public ar-leading men, or people who represent the ordinary day-to-day spirit of our country and society, and i thik it calls into question our boundaries of beauty.

Alison Lapper herself did a series of self-portraits based on our acceptance of so many 'armless' classical statues as beautiful, and Marc Quinn is interested in human beauty wherever it is found.

I don't think the 'disability rights' in a social sense is the point of having this statue.

I might tend to agree with the critic who said it looked 'slimy' - but I'm hoping to go and look at it later this afternoon, so i'll let you know what I think!

I also liked Rachel Whiteread's plinth statue.

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er 'war-leading'

She wil be covered in pigeion poo in no time, and look EXACTLY like a other, covered in bits of goo and sticky mess!

i guess tht all depends on whether you find 6 ft high bumps beautiful. Not to my taste tho.

er, 'mother' not 'other'

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kelly here are 3 reasons for so many nudes in western art

1. clothes date the picture/sculpture, when the artist may be trying to make a point that transcends a particular era.
2. men like looking at nude women and most artists are men
3. artists tend to be conventional, and painting/sculpting the nude body is more fun and easier than doing clothes.

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Made me pmsl this morning when someone phoned into Vanessa Feltz saying it was 'disgusting' and they were off to Italy to look at all the 'proper' sculptures. That'd be 'proper' sculptures - in white marble of naked women with arms and legs missing then, would it?

Why clothes on, kelly? Why not naked?

yes and nudity can be beautiful, but a 6ft bump!! Imagine - 4ft stretch marks.

I think she's an amazing and inspirational woman. But I don't like the sculpture - it's actually too traditional for me (white bland marble figurative etc). I guess that's the point - a traditional take on a very unlikely subject for that location (ie she's not a 'great man'). I liked the Rachel Whiteread one they had there for a while.

marc quinn is a great artist, far better than damian hurst, tracey emin, rachel whiteread et al. MQ is the only one with a genuine spark.

because imo al should be celebrated as a mother if anything, so that means her son should be there, and a naked mother and toddler prob wouldn't go down too well with the pc brigade.

Her son is there