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sturg33 said:
my question was "why" and you've yet to offer an answer
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Here you go:

What does this artwork signify?According to a Black Enterprise report, Price aimed to “encapsulate the observations, images and open calls of New York, Los Angeles, and London”.
The report calls the news installation as a “subtle nod to Michelangelo’s David and captures familiar everyday qualities through the woman’s stance, countenance, and clothing”.
“I hope Grounded in the Stars and Man Series will instigate meaningful connections and bind intimate emotional states that allow for deeper reflection around the human condition and greater cultural diversity,” the report quoted the London-based figurative artist as saying.
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Price said that the intention of his public works is to become part of the place they inhabit and its physical, material history, as well as the visitors “that pass through and around the location, no matter how fleeting”.
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That’s why, I guess. Doesn’t seem any more or less valid than any other reason for artistic expression to me.
 
mqt said:
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That’s why, I guess. Doesn’t seem any more or less valid than any other reason for artistic expression to me.
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So we've gone from putting statues to commemorate people who fought wars for actual freedom to now putting up statues for people who must endure living as a woman in 2025.
 
sturg33 said:
So we've gone from putting statues to commemorate people who fought wars for actual freedom to now putting up statues for people who must endure living as a woman in 2025.
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To be fair, I’d suspect there are a lot more people who might resonate with the image of a normal person looking solemn than some guy who fought a war 300 years ago. Different people like different things. And it just so happens this is in New York City, which is home to a lot of people and a lot of *other* things that were made to commemorate heroes and people who accomplished things. There’s also statues of goats and Alice In Wonderland and Scottish poets and all manner of other things built in New York City for any number of reasons. The list on monuments is 14 pages long:

So to answer your question on why: some things just weren’t made with your tastes in mind, but they were made with purpose, and likely have *an* audience. Me personally? I don’t fucking understand any single bit of it. I can appreciate the skill and effort that goes into art and some of it looks cool, but I’m convinced it’s all a vast conspiracy of people pretending to understand it for Big Art or something.
 
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