Can they also do something about those breasts? Had the artist ever seen breasts under fabric before?
Removed by mod
Bolt ons
I think that is part of the style of steel armour they had back when shield maidens were a thing?
I checked wikipedia and neither the Ukrainian or English page mention armour or inspiration beyond the personification of victory, just that it was designed and then redesigned with different artists and models. Draped cloth is not really practical for armor either.
Also it was built by the USSR. I could accept Soviet post-revolutionary art geometric influence as a reason if the rest of the sculpture wasn’t so much more precise. The rest of the fabric drapes well enough over more irregular curves.
It just makes me think of a modern steel Michelangelo interpretation of breasts on the Tomb of De Medici (nsfw? Nude marble statue breasts)
Also it was built by the USSR. I could accept Soviet post-revolutionary art geometric influence as a reason if the rest of the sculpture wasn’t so much more precise. The rest of the fabric drapes well enough over more irregular curves.
The face has that geometric Soviet thing going too. I think this is the answer even if it was questionably executed.
It just makes me think of a modern steel Michelangelo interpretation of breasts on the Tomb of De Medici (nsfw? Nude marble statue breasts)
WTF. Had he never seen an actual woman?
There were rumours about his sexuality, I have no idea if that is true. But the whole Catholic purity thing about viewing bodies of the other sex, combined with the exclusion of women as paid artists, led to some really terrible breasts on otherwise realistic figures for a long time in Western European art.
So this is actually not that weird? Like, everyone that saw this thing must have thought “WTF they don’t come out of the armpit (of an otherwise male-ish torso)”.
I resent you a tad for pointing it out
Sorry would take too long while being bombed and I don’t think that is in the budget of the checks several billion dollars sent to Ukraine by the United States. I also want big breasts.
US is not sending Ukraine pallets of money. When they talk about amounts of money, this is just the amount of money the equipment (which was mostly purchased decades ago) is estimated to cost.
The US bill for this actually uses current book value not new/replacement value.
This is what caused the bookkeeping error some months ago. The oversight organization noted that some equipment was calculated at new value and this was against the law passed for this. Causing several billion in aid to have been inflated. This was corrected freeing up these several billion for additional equipment aid.
Also the US and EU do provide money to pay for government salaries etc to keep the country going.
As someone not familiar with the statue I was wondering why they were modifying it during the war, so this is how it originally looked like: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6b/24/7b/6b247b685bd8d014d54d779fa0e7ec1b.jpg
And here is why it wasn’t done earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Ukraine_Monument#Decommunisation
I hope this doesn’t make it a target
Looks good!
