Spears sculpture irks some

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A life-size sculpture of a naked Britney Spears kneeling on a bearskin rug as she gives birth will be on display next month at Brooklyn's Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery.

The sculpture is to appear next to a display case filled with anti-abortion materials. It was created by Daniel Edwards, who said he never spoke to the 24-year-old pop star or met her, and fashioned her face and figure from photographs.

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Everyone is coming at me with anger and venom, but I depicted her as she has depicted herself - seductively. Suddenly, she's a mom."

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When some bloggers heard about the exhibit - "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" - the gallery said it received about 3,000 e-mails from around the world in just a week, split between anti-abortion and abortion rights opinions.

"We also got calls from Tokyo, England, France. Some people are upset that Britney is being used for this subject matter," said gallery co-owner David Kesting. "Others who are pro-life thought this was degrading to their movement. And some pro-choice people were upset that this is a pro-life monument."
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I'm curious to know what it looks like from the other side. I mean...has the artist depicted the baby actually coming out, or is it just a lewd beaver shot.

Also, who the hell gives birth gripping the head of a stuffed grizzly?

Besides Ted Nugent's wife, of course. ;)
 
Well, I don't know or care what Britney's stance on abortion is, and using her depiction for a sculpture probably (and should if it doesn't) falls under fair use type laws, but as far as I can tell, people are angry over the tastelessness of the sculpture, not the artist's right to create it.

To me this is simply an artist intentionally making provocative imagery and is now trying to act innocently about what he was trying to convey when the storm was bigger than he anticipated.
 
I'm not exactly sure how Britney Spears is a Christian pro-life icon. Can someone please explain that to me?
 
The artist is asked:

When asked whether he is pro-life, he said, "You nailed me. I'm not saying that I am. I wouldn't march with either pro-life or pro-choice advocates. This is not meant to be political."
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:confused:
 
I don't get it. What's distasteful about it?

I can see how PETA might be upset -- the bear rug and all -- but other than that ???
 
Luke T. said:
The guy calls the piece ""Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston", and then says, "This is not meant to be political."

:rolleyes:
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Which, loosely translated, means "this is supposed to get my name in a whole bunch of newspapers".
 
zakur said:
I'm curious to know what it looks like from the other side...
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I heard the other side pays homage to the “It’s alive” series of movies by depicting a pair of clawed appendages reaching out from her most intimate orifice and ripping her flesh as they struggle to free the monstrous horror from it’s fleshy prison.

Or maybe I just dreamt that.

It makes a tasteful statement either way.
 
It looks like the kind of art the Pope or say a fundie like Pat Robertson would have in their place.
 
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