I Like the Mermaid Statue

[George1959]

Denmark got a problem with a Mermaid statue.
I don't like to comment on it, it's just too ridiculous.

'Pornographic' mermaid statue to be removed in Denmark

 

[Tom52]

I thought the article was about the famous little mermaid statue in Copenhagen. This is something else.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Me, too. Thought the article was about taking the little mermaid that been there for a long time. You don't get rid of a famous tourist attraction that selling millions in souvenirs. There's nude and then there's gross- the big mermaid falls into the gross class.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

If those are the "biggest" issues they need to deal with in Denmark, they must not have much to do.

 

[Lee]

Michaelangelo had David

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

meh

 

[Lethe200]

I'm in the "art is in the eye of the beholder" camp. I don't happen to like modern art, for example; I'm not a fan of Picasso or Warhol or Rauschenberg et. al. But if someone else is, that's fine with me. I don't have to admire them or buy them.

It's a statue - a piece of concrete. It's certainly more realistic than Giacometti.

Who, btw, did this statue...which is certainly of the same proportions as the mermaid in the article:


I don't care for Giacometti, but his fans are not shy about what they will pay for an original of the statue above:

• Prices for Femme debout sculptures can range from millions to tens of millions of dollars. For example:
  • A Femme debout (Standing Woman) sold for $7.445 million in 2015.
  • Another Femme debout sculpture sold for £651,700 (approximately $770,000 USD at current exchange rates) in a Phillips auction.

 

[Trade]

Michaelangelo had David

Yeah, but compared to the Mermaid, Dave wasn't quite so well endowed.

 

[jujube]

I like the original mermaid statue. It's so much more Hans Christian Anderson-ish. This one looks like the Playboy version.

 

[ChiroDoc]

Denmark got a problem with a Mermaid statue.
I don't like to comment on it, it's just too ridiculous.

'Pornographic' mermaid statue to be removed in Denmark

Well, it's definitely not pornographic. I'd say the design is a little too risque for public display.

 

[OldFeller]

One article I read said it was being removed because it didn't fit the image of the fort. A man who was calling for its removal on those grounds added the comment that he felt it was pornographic. Its not like there had been a public outcry against it being obscene.

It sounds like the press made more of the obscenity of it because that makes for a better story.

There are topless statues all over the world and its not like people are really that shocked anymore by it.

Its supposed to be very large. I would like to see a person standing next to it to get an idea of how large it is.

They should've made it like another Statue of Liberty kind of thing.

Then people could climb stairs to the breasts and the nipples could have been a porthole to look out of. Now that's a tourist trap that could make you millions.