I find this statue intriguing, beautiful even. I don't care who it's supposed to be, but there is much there to be contemplated.
What is it about it that you find beautiful? Please help me to understand because I dont know much about art and maybee you can help explain it to me...
What is it I find beautiful about my husband? What is it you find beautiful about your pets? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It neither requires nor responds to requests to be explained. And yet still, I shall <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Life is beautiful. This is how life comes into the world. Why sugarcoat it? We don't pop out in rose-filled fields, without pain to the mother, coated in honeysuckle robes.
Birth is a sacrifice; this sculpture shows that. This is the common pose for natural birth. Many midwives have said this depicts the actual pose recommended.
Whether she had a C section or not, or whether you feel she is Mother Teresa or not, is immaterial. She didn't commission nor condone this statue. It is a woman, giving birth, with artistic elements such as a bearskin rug.
If he had used just any woman, it would not be spoken of. The artist is a master in publicity. He chose her because she was #1 in Google searches. That is all.
In the end, I love it because woman gives life. That is her privilege and is to be celebrated. The Goddess is maid, mother and crone. <img src="/images/graemlins/queen.gif" alt="" /> This celebrates one of those aspects.