And while at first Londoners hated the piece, an overwhelming majority of the city grew to love it roughly a year later (90%, according to a city-wide poll taken). Lapper has proven to be a good mother, and gave birth to a fully formed child in 1999. Secondly, People also didn’t like the sculpture because of the fact that this deformed, disadvantaged woman was going to give life to a child she could neither hold in her arms nor change diapers for. One, because people don’t like having to look at the delicate state of human health and of life in general as it reminds them of their own potential and inevitability for illnesses, deformities and death (meanwhile being placed on a plinth in the heart of London they couldn’t avoid it). The piece sparked controversy on two levels. The piece he chose was of a deformed and pregnant Alison Lapper, a british artist born with a congenial disorder that left her without arms and with stubs of legs. Marc Quinn was commissioned to put a sculpture up on the plinth, and in his artistic fashion chose a rather shocking and loud piece to display to the London public. The last of the 4 plinths was supposed to hold a statue depicting William IV, but apparently people didn’t like him enough to want to pay for a statue in his honor, so the last plinth lied barren, and since has been used to display public works of art. The square hosts four plinths, three of which properly hold statues of King George IV and two military generals, Henry Havelock and Sir Charles James Napier. His work was featured in 2000 in the highly-touristic and typically conservative/stiff Trafalgar Square in London. He takes the normal, finds something twisted or unwanted about it, and then proceeds to sculpt or paint it into something magnificent. His work, to my liking, is a combination of ugly and beautiful and is “calculating provocative”. Marc Quinn is one of my favorite artists right now.
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