In these two blog entries, Daphne describes the situation illustrated below–reproducing great art but making it skinnier, because, you know, it should be to look right. In the first entry, she expresses what seems to be dismay when she says, “…when I noticed a trend that stopped me and sent me furiously turning pages back, saying “oh my god! Look what they’re doing!“
But in the second she says, “False alarm, no harm, no foul.” Or rather, “Basically, there is no conspiracy. These are NOT a deliberate and wanton desecration of the original artworks; the sculptors and model-makers are “innocent victims” of the system and not deliberately trying to persecute women or harm anyone’s body-image.”
No, the “innocent victims” have been exposed to too many Bratz and Barbie dolls.
Somehow her initial dismay became apology for the industry in which she works. I guess we all have to cover our own arses.
But still, desecration is desecration, and in my view, that’s a desecration of glorious art and the perpetrators are assholes.
Feel free to disagree.
January 31, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Next they will be giving the Statue of David a bigger penis.
Do they even understand why the great art is great art?
Obviously not.
February 1, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I feel appalled by this desecration of art, but I wonder what the reaction would be if someone DID give Michelangelo’s David a bigger penis. No…I don’t wonder, I know. There would be no great outcry. It would be the subject of a few jokes on Leno and that would be it.
Now there’s something for Rodin’s Thinker to contemplate.
P.S. I always thought he should have a bigger forehead.
February 3, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Max, the explanation in the second post is bizarre. Evidently we’re to believe that the “artists” responsible for the reproductions are just making the statues look better and have no idea that they’re doing anything wrong.
Sam, there would be no outcry just like there’s no outcry about this, if it’s nothing but knockoffs. If they tried to change the real statue, hopefully somebody would notice.
February 5, 2009 at 12:10 am
Could we ship D people in Hollywood to this assembly line? If they were all tied up improving Michelangelo maybe they would be too busy to dick up scripts.