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Budi

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2. Ugh. That's the message the artist thought embodied the worker?

Reply to janterry (Original post)

Thu Oct 7, 2021, 11:31 AM

Oct 2021

Why that?
WHY!

Maybe someone will honor her dignity & finish dressing her.

JFC

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Italian Statue of Scantily Clad Worker Draws Controversy: An 'Offense to Women' [View all] janterry Oct 2021 OP

Artistically, I find that pretty amazing to have portrayed in bronze and very lifelike. hlthe2b Oct 2021 #1

It's weird. There's no way to know she works in the field. jimfields33 Oct 2021 #3

Ugh. That's the message the artist thought embodied the worker? Budi Oct 2021 #2

Yes, someone needs to get some clothes on that woman. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #4

he says if it were his choice, she would have been naked janterry Oct 2021 #5

I think Ashcroft has a line on where to buy curtains... ret5hd Oct 2021 #6

if it was roman/greek from antiiquity ppl would be celebrating it nt msongs Oct 2021 #7

ironic that so many hundreds of years later, janterry Oct 2021 #8

If that were the focus of the rendering, yes, I would. It was not, but rather to show a farm laborer hlthe2b Oct 2021 #9

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