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Re:Charging Bull sculptor says New York's Fearless Girl stat... by diamonis on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:20PM (#14108999)
Mashups are fine and I support them, fwiw. But putting 'her' in front of the charging bull is a deliberate attempt to change the meaning of his art. It is the attempt of a second rate artist to ride the coat tails of a superior artist. She gets instant notoriety for her work by, not so coincidentally, trashing somebody elses.
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Re:Charging Bull sculptor says New York's Fearless Girl stat... by anigbrowl on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:42PM (#14109195)
Changing the meaning of an existing piece of art isn't vandalism, it is pure art. As an artist myself I reject your claim that Di Modica is somehow a 'superior artist' just because he happened to have his work there first. Kristen Visbal came up with something everyone who sees it reacts to without needing an intermediaries to draw attention to or explain the semantics of her artistic statement, which is precisely the goal of art.
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Re:Charging Bull sculptor says New York's Fearless Girl stat... by Chris2048 on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:49PM (#14132929)
> Kristen Visbal came up with something everyone who sees it reacts to without needing an intermediaries to draw attention to or explain the semantics of her artistic statement, which is precisely the goal of art.

So a swastika on a war memorial is also "art"?

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