TOURS, FRANCE - This graceful old city on the Loire River has long been considered typical of France. New products get tested here because the consumers of Tours mirror national tastes, for instance, and foreigners come here to learn French because the local accent is considered the norm.
So it was perhaps inevitable that a raging controversy would explode over plans for the Loire Woman, a statue of a reclining nude designed to be 50 feet high and 120 feet long with her thighs evocatively opened....
So it was perhaps inevitable that a raging controversy would explode over plans for the Loire Woman, a statue of a reclining nude designed to be 50 feet high and 120 feet long with her thighs evocatively opened....
OK, I'm with the people of Tours. It's hard to make the female form ugly, but I believe he has achieved it. Just because it's art, doesn't mean its good art. Well, one good thing about it, it won't last nearly forever, like say, Venus de Milo:
In a bow to the environment, the statue will be constructed out of cardboard, plaster and other materials designed to be recyclable, he said. "She will herald tomorrow's habitat," Audiard declared grandly on a Web site dedicated to his project...Recycling can't happen fast enough. Now kids, this is good French nude...
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| Renoir - Bather - 1905 |
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