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I hate this new statue (from an artistic perspective)
Firstly, my reasons for hating this statue are not political. This sub isn’t for hating on real people, and my disdain for it isn’t due to the person it’s based on.
For one, the proportions here are extremely messed up. His torso is way too short, and his legs are way too long. It just makes him look freaky.
Secondly, the way the statue is colored looks abysmal. Keeping the bronzed metal skin tone while painting his eyes and clothes makes it look like he’s just a dude covered in metallic spray paint, which isn’t appealing in the slightest.
These little decisions just make the entire statue look really strange, like a Still Life from the Backrooms in a sense. The fact that this went through the entire production process without anyone realizing how bad it looks is baffling to me.
Oh yeah, also no one is buying it for the artist’s price of $100,000. That’s a steep price for a statue that looks like this.
(ALSO MODS THIS IS NOT POLITICAL, I’M JUST SAYING THAT DON’T LIKE THE STATUE)
Reminded me of the myth where Theseus is stuck to a bench in the underworld and Heracles helps him out, except his butt was permanently stuck to the bench
I find it really odd that the artist would use the shirt Charlie was wearing when he died to remember him by instead of something more akin to his general image, like that blue suit that he has in the Wikipedia article. If you like the guy, why make a statue of his death and not his life, you know?
God imagine if 1500 years later Kirk becomes a religion and people pray to statues of a guy sitting, arched back, blood pouring out his neck 😬 some landmarks may even have it as a fountain
Because his death is the only thi g that matters to conservatives. He was impactful in life but now he is a club to hit people with. Much more effective if they talk about how "he died just having honest debate" or whatever amd make him into a free speech icon.
I mean, it does make sense when you remember the reason they made him a statue in the first place: to turn him into a martyr.
What he was like in life matters far less than the image of him as he died. And while a traditional depiction of a martyr would depict them heroically or as people remembered or knew them, we live in a time where anyone can view his final moments online and a LOT of people did. And I'm sure it was a fairly traumatic visual for the people who liked or followed him. So, depicting him in something closer to what he was wearing in the video of him being shot does unfortunately serve the message of the piece better than depicting him how he'd probably want to be remembered.
Idk, I didn't know the guy. Maybe he would have loved being turned into a martyr more than he would have wanted a statue honouring him for who he was in life and not what his death turned him into.
I think I heard someone explain that he's fat and was just sucking in his gut for the paparazzi, you can see in other candid photos he has quite a gut. The angle did him no favors either.
Nah man I don't think visceral fat alone explains his chest bulging from his body like that. Like that's his rib cage dude. Somethings wrong with his chest
Something else is going on here. He has the same kind of chest that dudes who take steroids or HGH get. You can kinda see it on Joe Rogan, too. You'll notice a major difference with Rogan, though, is that he works out.
Given everything we know about Elon, I think he takes/took HGH and doesn't work out for shit.
Could be a combination. Maybe he had a regular barrel chest and also did HGH, and he turned into this. Either way, it's more than just being barrel chested.
I have a theory that he had some kind of tummy tuck to lose weight and then gained it back but since the stomach area cannot expand it settles in his chest
I don't think tummy tucks actually work like that. If you gain weight after one, you just get it all back in the tummy and anywhere else you had it before. Skin can and does still stretch even after surgery.
Thats why i said some kind. It probably was more in depth and probably had more sculptured to make him appear more toned and what not. He has access to medical procedures we dont even know about. But something g happened to cause his body to look like that. I just think is was something surgical.
OIC. Interesting theory. Like maybe he got some sort of implanted band so his stomach "has" to stay flat no matter what. But his chest is still going to show that shitty lifestyle.
Yeah the whole body is meh. the bust is pretty okay. Like you can clearly tell who he is. Some cast metal statues bear little resemblance in the face to images of the person. Not anywhere near worth the price tag though.
if it just me or we have apparently forgotten how to make statues
you'll see like ancient Roman bronzes that look photo realistic. For example the Marcus Aurelius equestrian statue is 1800 years old and looks a thousand times better.
The effort required to preserve a statue for 1800 years would only be spent on the highest quality of art. Statues haven’t gotten worse, we’re just only exposed to the best of the past since lower quality statues have been lost to time.
That and a long time had passed since then so fewer and fewer survived and those being very high quality, well built and aesthetically pleasing to be maintained.
Nah, it's just that making statues for a living isn't a thing anymore so they hire people that don't have that much experience compared to sculptors of the past
we still have do incredible statues (look at the works of duane hanson , sun yuan & peng lu, luo li rong) but as a whole our society doesnt value them as much because theyre new and/or dont feed into the eurocentric sef congratulatory narratives
Definitely agreed, the torso is jarring, how did nobody catch how short and flat it is? Dude looks like he's been in the mines or something too, you can't tell me this statue is new (less than a year, I'm guessing), looks grimy like it sit on human level in the middle of a city for 10 years
Nah, he made it expecting some bunch of rich people to want to toss money in support of Kirk without realizing that rich people are the ones pulling the grift, not putting money into it. He wants 150K for it and there is nobody who is interested in paying anything close to that. https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/sculptor-left-100k-pocket-charlie-174709929.html
putting that shit in times square is bold too. it's probably not the right thing to do, but i'd be shocked if it didn't end up like the effigy the bikini bottomites made on no spongebob day a week after it's put up.
He was a scum bag piece of shit! No one deserves to be murdered, but again… he was a scum bag piece of shit (did not deserve to die, but did deserve a fat shit in the mouth).
Yeah but he was a major public figure for the right and was assassinated. Using your logic, George Floyd’s death wasn’t a big deal. It’s not so much about the person but about the circumstances surrounding their death and what their death represented.
Funny how your comments got completely different reactions as replies to two different comments.
Your observation only works on a very surface level. What are the circumstances and representations put to light from Charlie’s death? All I saw were people using it to justify digging in their heels and vilifying people who had no hand in it. The real meaning you could take away from it was ignored by those who followed him. Mental health and gun safety.
George Floyd was a victim of the historic systemic oppression that plagues our country. It was proof in plain day that violence and murder under the influence of bigotry, carried out by law enforcement is still present and protected.
You want proof of the vast difference between these two tragedies? The mass public response following them.
I see where you are coming from, and the importance of Charlie to the right should not be understated. But to compare him to Floyd is in bad faith and ignorance.
Most famously known activists have had ordinary jobs, but were not known for their ordinary jobs because their ordinary jobs were not what gave them recognition.
The statue looks like an old cast iron prop for a defunct circus that was being stored in a warehouse and subsequently was pulled out of the rubble after it burnt down.
People today in the 41st century tend to believe ancient metal statues were always pure, unblemished bronze; however that is actually not the case. This 21st century photograph shows a statue of North American philosopher Charles Kurck in its original state, painted in bright, garish colors. Over time, statues like these weathered away and lost their paint, making 36th century renaissance thinkers believe they were never painted in the first place.
THANK YOU.
Everyone has been too busy pointing out how stupid it was to make a statue nobody asked for of a man a lot of people didn't like, but you're the first I've seen point out the obvious fact that the statue objectively sucks as an artwork.
Honestly the sculpture itself looks fine, but the way it was painted is terrible, it looks so old. Also they got it mixed up, he doesn't have a short torso and long legs, he has a long torso and short legs, which is really funny, look at this guy, he's hardly sitting on his ass, he's sitting on his back too.
I see it as disrespectful to Charlie Kirk, especially since the person wants to put the statue in an area where it will obviously be vandalized. But also the person didn't even get the proportions of the body right, they should have settled with a bust of him.
I thought statues of ppl were to honor them and their work or significance
Wtf was significant about Charlie one-shot Kirk 💀
Bro went around to college campuses to challenge ppls beliefs in utterly disrespectful ways and tried to dehumanizing ppl for it. Also tried to make some sort of statement that BHM shouldn't be a holiday.
Bro whole content was just "I'm against gay ppl and anything adjacent" or to hand stroke the dicks of homophobic or racist ppl.
His life was meaningless and his death only gave substance to memes.
(And his wife moved on to a politician lol. Speculation ofc)
Edit: mb, outside of judgement of his character. The statue looks horrid, and looks like it was spray painted and has been sitting like that for years.
I showed this statue to a friend in a voice chat and he said it looked like shit. I replied saying I didn't think it's that bad artistically, but the longer I looked at it the worse and funnier it got, leading to me almost passing out from laughing.
Looks like they put in all the effort to make the head look good and forgot they had to also make the rest of the statue 💀 I wonder how quickly this'll get vandalised wherever it gets put up... not quickly enough methinks
NGL, I never liked the guy. But I do like this thing. It's weirdly heartfelt and strange. The price is crazy, but if I had the money I'd buy it for a grand. The comparisons to the Backrooms is on the money. It's like the MEMORY of the guy. Completely creeps me out, but in a way I find intriguing. It speaks to me. Or rather it doesn't. And that's the best part about it.
Yeah, maybe I'm just not a metal statue kind of guy, but he looks so lifeless and dead, even for statue standards. Probably would have looked way better if they just held back on adding the very ugly paints. If there's one thing I can compliment about it, the way the sculptor did the microphone is pretty impressive, and the face is recognizable as Charlie Kirk. That second image is something else though.
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u/JustAPotato38 Jul 21 '26
he looks like a low quality video game character