Ugly? That’s not ugly!
Try the statue of Dante Alighieri at the Dante Alighieri Society in Cambridge, MA. I’ve tried t find pictures of it online, but I can’t get them to come up. This statue is ugly enough to persude th poet to rise from the deead and strangle the sculptor. He looks like my old Sister Superior from Catholic School on a bad day.
Yea, this hasn’t been revealed yet, but we’re already trying to come up with names for it. Looks like a cross between a phallic symbol and a dung heap. An ear of corn with footballs on it. wtf? Who picks this stuff out???
Actually, the thing I dislike most about it is the gratuitous inclusion of E=mc[sup]2[/sup] on the pages he’s holding; it’s corny. Might just as well have included a button badge with the words “My name is Mr Albert Einstein”.
Another view here: I kinda like it. It has a “dumpy old man” look to it – seems to make Einstein more human that way. I’ve seen worse and stranger monuments.
That looks like something the cat would leave in the sandbox.
However, if my cat left something resembling this in the sandbox, I would contact the media immediately and tell them it looked like Moses, holding the Ten Commandments, and it is surely a sign from God. A sign telling us that society has turned into cat turd. Or He’s showing us the fate of Moses. It’s all too cryptic.
It looks like he’s wearing Tevas. Maybe he went further with that relativity thing that we ever knew. Evidence? He’s wearing…
SHOES FROM THE FUTURE!
Practically every image we have of him shows that “dumpy old man” look. And I agree that this very important statue should evoke him as he was, rather than some idealized image of him. But while I’d certainly be in favor or portraying him as slouchy and hobbity and rumpled, I really don’t like seeing him portrayed as slouchy and hobbity and rumpled and pieced together from assorted stool samples.