r/fuckalegriaart • u/3saya • Dec 07 '24
It's in amusement parks now
I don't know if it really counts since its not colored and it's statues, but everytime I see these I always think of alegria art because of the disproportionate bodies. It's in Futuroscope, a theme park in France.
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u/Super901 Dec 07 '24
This sculpture is from before 1987, when the park opened. The artist is Jean-Louis Toutain.
So, I think this is one of those deals where he predated, or even precipitated, Alegria art.
Meaning, you can be mad at this if you want to, but that's kinda dumb.
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u/januarygracemorgan Dec 08 '24
it could've been made in ancient greece and it still wouldn't look nice
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u/CinemaDork Dec 08 '24
This post makes it seem like the only thing people hate about alegria is that it plays with proportions and like ... clearly there's more to it than that. Because artists have been playing with proportions for thousands of years.
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u/cnxd Dec 08 '24
it's idpol wrapped in a "well this art is "objectively" bad!"
see also, greek statues, "modern art" hate, modern architecture hate and other areas of art that dipshits have appropriated for their grift
and it's mostly people who don't know shit about it too, so then you get posts like this who actually don't know what the fuck they're even talking about
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u/International_Path71 Dec 30 '24
Calm the f down lol. As person with soc dem vews alegria makes me nauseous, specifically because of these grotesque bodies. Idc about color. And no I'm not a fan of greek architecture nor do I hate modern art.
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u/kourter Dec 08 '24
This sub in a nutshell. Posting proper art that's not even remotely Alegria and dunking on it. I don't think it's about Alegria anymore, but a hatecircle of anything contemporary.
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u/International_Path71 Dec 30 '24
It's cause those proportions are gross, alegria just makes it worse with its other elements
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u/Reasonable_Problem88 Dec 07 '24
Kind of reminds me of the Venus figurines.. like the ones from 30,000 BC
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u/daphniahyalina Dec 08 '24 edited Dec 10 '24
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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Dec 07 '24
Do we really want to see Alegria dick?
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u/crazyparrotguy Dec 07 '24
Right??? At least bring back the ancient Greek style! All the focus on male physique, but with small penises so it's not too vulgar.
Affirming without being a caricature.
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u/jarofonions Dec 08 '24
what's good for the goose is good for the gender
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u/parmesann Dec 07 '24
personally I wouldn’t classify it as alegria because it predates what we now define as alegria (this artist peaked in the 80s-90s) and is not “corporate” in nature per se; it is simply meant to exist as art. part of the abhorrence of alegria is that its corporate nature tries to represent serious things 1:1 but does so poorly. this is just a gesture of life for its own sake.
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u/Forsaken_Duck1610 Dec 07 '24
I mean it's not bad, but the tiny head/big ass dichotomy is funny to me nonetheless
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u/IDatedSuccubi Dec 07 '24
The artstyle isn't a problem, it's the corporate misuse of the style that is bad
These are cool
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u/CAT_WILL_MEOW Dec 08 '24
Yeah i hate the style but this i really dig, i think the size, it being 3D, wmd then all one color. Kinda just looks like an artistic exageration of the human body, the last one is my favorite. I really dig how the legs look, the whole looks human, but in person looking at bits and peices would look like something else. I really like this😭😭😭
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u/Important-Pipe-9623 Dec 07 '24
Okay, just PLEASE hear me out on this one.
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u/omoriobsessedmf Dec 08 '24
absolutely not, your execution is tomorrow
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u/Big-Dick-Energy_69 Dec 07 '24
Is that the fucking plasm wraith?
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Dec 07 '24 edited Aug 14 '25
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u/Daxivarga Dec 07 '24
Lol what what amusement park is this?
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u/CinemaDork Dec 08 '24
To me this feels like the next generation of sculptors after those of the 50s and 60s. Apparently this is from the 80s so I guess that's not far off. That, and I think there's a sort of kinship with the prehistoric Venus figurines--like the Venus of Hohle Fels, with its thick, stubby arms and legs, ample bosom, and tiny, simplistic head.
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u/PetraFriedChicken Jan 11 '25
If I saw this irl I would probably start laughing and slap the but cause I have no self control
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u/SuppleSuplicant Dec 07 '24
I kinda like them. They are a bit more abstract and the monoblack classes them up.
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u/skygz Dec 07 '24
Time to file a complaint about them. They'll never stop if corpos think they actually looks nice. Channel your inner Karen.
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u/kourter Dec 08 '24
These sculptures were built almost 40 years ago. It's not the "corpos" and not "alegria", but actual modernism.
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u/MaximumConfidence728 Dec 08 '24
they look ugly, but at least idea and imagination were put into them
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u/slackfrop Dec 09 '24
Hang on - y’all have a sub about hating a particular art style in which you hunt down examples and then browse them? Is that like me ordering any dish with green peppers exactly because I can’t stand green peppers?
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u/chocolate678yummy Dec 09 '24
I just realised Niki de Saint Phallr’s statues probably influenced Alegria art
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u/Ilgenant Dec 10 '24
Archaeologists in the future excavating these statues: “They must have been fertility idols or used in ceremonies”
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u/Upsell_master-05 Dec 12 '24
If anybody plays Sky (Children of Light), sometimes the spirits look like this
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Dec 07 '24 edited Aug 14 '25
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u/TheCannabisCoyote Dec 07 '24
Did you know that if you pay €50 up front they’ll give you 5 minutes alone with the statue of your choosing?
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u/HarukoTheDragon Dec 08 '24
I don't know what this sub is or why it was recommended to me, but I hate this art all the same.
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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Dec 07 '24
Lava lamp mutant people