Mary Wollstonecraft statue

Just glad there's no chance of me having any artwork made of me!

That is naked

There is no statue of or for a notable male person I can think of

To my mind it is titillating - and that surely doesn't go with Mary Wollstonecraft.

It almost feels as if the sculptor is sniggering at us behind her hand.

Yes apparently it is For and not Of.......
but I still think its absolutely horrible ..and I agree that she would not have liked it...yes there are lots of statues of nudes both male and female...but this one...well its just sort of distasteful...

From a very funny twitter feed this evening

“It has been pointed out that it's FOR not OF Mary Wollstonecraft so this is an edit.

"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft
"Oh, and a statue FOR me, of a woman with her tits out, I'd love that"

Mary Wolstonecraft on women and beauty
It has also been asserted, by some naturalists, that men do not attain their full growth and strength till thirty; but that women arrive at maturity by twenty. I apprehend that they reason on false ground, led astray by the male prejudice, which deems beauty the perfection of woman—mere beauty of features and complexion, the vulgar acceptation of the world, whilst male beauty is allowed to have some connexion with the mind. Strength of body, and that character of countenance, which the French term a physionomie, women do not acquire before thirty, any more than men.
She would probably have hated it.

Oh no no no! It's awful

I don't like it at all. Why does she need to be naked? It seems that every statue of a woman has to show her without clothes. The statue of Verity at Ilfracombe shows her pregnant and naked. Although that is a very thought provoking statue.

SueDonim I thought it looked like a well-chewed bone

Goodness, it’s awful. It was actually the lower part of it that caught my eye - it resembles nothing so much as the cascade of the contents of my cat’s stomach that I had to clear up yesterday. ?

No, I don’t like it.

It is a beautiful sculpture but totally unsuitable for the purpose. The nakedness takes precedence over the importance of the subject.

Can this sculpture truly be said to represent all women when from its proportions it looks very very few women I know
Slim, toned, youthful, no evidence of childbearing, as M0nica says little more than a child itself (eurgh)Tacky.
No Maggie Hambling - you have missed the point.
PS I am looking forward to a naked David Gandy to “commemorate” Trump

Who decided this was a good idea?

I think is is disrespectful of Wollstonecraft.

What makes me most uncomfortable is that the woman is...... I do not quite mean sexualised, but she looks like some of the naked girls in some of Sir Frederic Leighton, or Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema pseudo-historic (soft porn) works.

She is not sexualised, but invites the male gaze and is presented in a form that will attract male appreciation, in fact she is everything Mary Wollstencroft was not.

it might not be a statue of her as such, but rather a commemoration of her work.

I rarely disagree with your succinct and sensible posts, grumppa but I think a woman of the 1700s, however progressive, would not think that this was a fitting tribute to her work.

I think she could be feel shame that this naked statue is considered to epitomise equality today.

I hate it.

Blinko, how can you not get it?How many famous male statues are naked?

that is obscene ....she needs a fig leaf. couldnt a better statue be made .i dont like it....and in a public place,,,

I really have no idea what it says, even about the sculptor.
'Unimaginative' comes to mind.

Hmm, possibly used a Barbie doll for a model ?

The artwork would be more suited to a gallery.

It says more about the sculptor herself, than it does about Mary Wollstonecraft.

Oh No! I had to google various images to have a clearer idea of the statue.
What a travesty.

I've not RTFT, but I'm horrified.
I wrote my MA dissertation on women, art and society in the 18th century and MW featured a lot.
This is not acceptable.