Artist adds urinating pug statue to Wall Street's Fearless Girl
Source: aol.com
May 30th 2017 12:36PM
During Women's History Month and in anticipation of International Women's Day in March, advertising agency McCann New York added a "Fearless Girl" statue opposite the Wall Street bull.
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The statue has been subject to several incidents since its installation, including a man humping it and other men donning her in Trump merchandise.
Now, a sculptor added his own take to Fearless Girl: a urinating pug statue.
The artist, Alex Gardega, claims the statue is "corporate nonsense" and disrespectful to the bull statue and its creator, Arturo Di Modica.
"It has nothing to do with feminism, and it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull," he told the New York Post. "That bull had integrity."....................
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To me, this artwork a piece of crap (the urinating dog). Just gross.
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a kennedy
(29,658 posts)what a putz.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)Or is it just me?
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)That artist deserves to be disrespected. He's a hack. it's a nice piece from a purely technical aspect. Celebrating the fearlessness of wall street? Please spare me. I just got done with the stomach flu.
The little girl was a beautiful addition.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)look where it got him.
bucolic_frolic
(43,149 posts)we all have a statement to add
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)riversedge
(70,205 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)jalan48
(13,863 posts)mopinko
(70,097 posts)actually, the firm that commissioned 'fearless girl' does, in fact, have to do w feminism. it targets it's investments in firms w female high ups. and does quite well, thank you very much.
kyburbonkid
(251 posts)I'm going to make a sculpture of a bunch of piss ants to place under the dog to invade it's space. Then you get a whole fucking ecosystem going.
And with ants you get the whole damn Dali thing going too.
mopinko
(70,097 posts)per ny post.
Rebl2
(13,498 posts)someone should have created a dog catcher to get the dog.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)No, not the ugly pissing mut, but Fearless Girl.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Its ALL just attention grabbing bullshit