Sonia O'Sullivan statue

Murph_D

I heard her talking about this during the week and she seems happy with it, but maybe she was just being nice. I think she deserves a better tribute than this especially in her home town.

noway12345

That isn't good!

bee06

Jeez, that's horrendous! Seems like they had a left over statue of a man in the shed and they said ... Sure that'll do rather than making a new one.

road_high

Doesn't flatter her, she's a lot prettier than that. As others have said, looks unfortunately like a random man!

noway12345

Most in the crowd were smiling but you can see them asking themselves what the feck is this?

Ososlo

road_high wrote: »

Doesn't flatter her, she's a lot prettier than that. As others have said, looks unfortunately like a random man!

I think they captured her amazing powerful torso to a T. What abs! Agree about the face though. She is a lot prettier than that.
The face and head is a bit 'hard' and not very feminine and should have been handled a little more delicately.

rom

Its shocking.

This is the photo its based on. Her thighs are much smaller i the photo. Clearly someone only with experience with field players.

ultraman1

rom wrote: »

Its shocking.

This is the photo its based on. Her thighs are much smaller i the photo. Clearly someone only with experience with field players.

Why is she wearin high heels...

Triangla

Is the face based on Odo from Deep Space Nine!

Desperate likeness.

Odelay

It looks brutal, it is nothing like the photo. I think it is shocking, looks like she is 90. I have meet her and she looks so much better than that.

Ososlo

rom wrote: »

Its shocking.

This is the photo its based on. Her thighs are much smaller i the photo. Clearly someone only with experience with field players.

I think it's more to do with this particular artist's style. To me they are exaggerating for dramatic effect purposely for a public piece of art. It looks like everything is accentuated.

Ursus Horribilis

She looks like a streaker in it

death1234567

All of these bronze statues look terrible, it's nothing new. They rarely if ever look like the person they are modeled on.

bee06

Triangla wrote: »

Is the face based on Odo from Deep Space Nine!

Desperate likeness.

I knew it looked familiar!

ThisRegard

ultraman1 wrote: »

Why is she wearin high heels...

Lol, I was going to post that. Saw the photos the weekend and thought it looked terrible, and from other angles she looks like she was wearing heels.

Darcy was interviewing her today and he gave the impression he wasn't impressed and tried to draw out of her what she really thought.

Murph_D

Well I heard her say she did a full body mold so it's based on her own physique at least. That was just the starting point of course. The pose is odd though, and the 'high heels' effect IS unfortunate, especially after that Limerick mini marathon snafu last week.

Pherekydes

It's hideous. It's bronze, so hopefully someone will rob it and melt it down.

rom

Pherekydes wrote: »

It's hideous. It's bronze, so hopefully someone will rob it and melt it down.

Do you want to buy a gate boss.

BettePorter

There's a statue of the late Brian lenihan somewhere with a missing head!

Cienciano

Not as bad as the Ted Bates statue outside Southampton FC's ground:

ThisRegard

What the hell is going on with his rubber hands?!

efb

BettePorter wrote: »

There's a statue of the late Brian lenihan somewhere with a missing head!

Snr! Yes

rom

Murph_D wrote: »

Well I heard her say she did a full body mold so it's based on her own physique at least. That was just the starting point of course. The pose is odd though, and the 'high heels' effect IS unfortunate, especially after that Limerick mini marathon snafu last week.

Well 25 years she ain't going to look the same as she did then so maybe that was a bad idea.

Murph_D

rom wrote: »

Well 25 years she ain't going to look the same as she did then so maybe that was a bad idea.

Hence my reference to the mould being a starting point.

walshb

There's a beautiful bronze statue of Arkle in Ashbourne that is a whole lot more like Arkle than this statue is like Sonia!

Pherekydes

Cienciano wrote: »

Not as bad as the Ted Bates statue outside Southampton FC's ground:

That looks seriously like Mike Murphy.

vanderlyle

Reminds me of this

Limestone1

Whats with the golf ball in her knicks ?

BettePorter

efb wrote:

Snr! Yes

Oh yes! I meant brian lenihan senior, thank you! Forgot they shared a name.

efb

BettePorter wrote: »

Oh yes! I meant brian lenihan senior, thank you! Forgot they shared a name.

And both are deceased

rom

The right way

http://www.southernstar.ie/Sport/Sculpture-unveiled-for-Carrigaline-Olympian-Joe-West-16072014.htm

HelenAnne

Seeing Sonia's statue reminded me of this article:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2015/apr/07/scourge-bronze-zombies-terrible-statues-ruining-art

glacial_pace71

Most bronze statues are hideous. However, even with modern 3-D printing there'll still be distortions of perspective.

Look back half a millennium and you can see that da Vinci couldn't use a lens properly for foreground/background estimation, e.g. see Mary's enormous reach with one hand relative to the arm length of the other:
http://www.italianrenaissance.org/leonardo-da-vincis-virgin-of-the-rocks/

Similarly, here's one by Vermeer of a guy getting a gal drunk. She's put the wine glass to her head and finished it; though he's standing behind her on her right-hand side, his arm has reached all the way past her to the jug of wine to her left:
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/glass_of_wine.html#.VgmgEhy8_n0

As a kid I was always disappointed that my plastic toy soldiers had arms too long relative to their legs, or weapons out of scale to their bodies etc. Nowadays, with modern technology, even when they're trying to use photo-imaging techniques to scale the proportions they still can't get it right. (See examples of some very, very expensive distortions of height to width etc:
http://www.kingandcountry.com/lawrence-arabia-c-83_44.html )

I'm not sure what Sonia can do. In the absence of a national civic honours system it's difficult to pay tribute to her, so inevitably someone will go down the "let's erect a statue" route. Hmm, the original Victoria Crosses were made from the bronze of melted down Chinese/Russian cannons. Perhaps we could have a Sonia Cross? From melted down bronze statues of course!

clear thinking

Cobblers, they got Philo right.

rom

glacial_pace71 wrote: »

Most bronze statues are hideous. However, even with modern 3-D printing there'll still be distortions of perspective.

Look back half a millennium and you can see that da Vinci couldn't use a lens properly for foreground/background estimation, e.g. see Mary's enormous reach with one hand relative to the arm length of the other:
http://www.italianrenaissance.org/leonardo-da-vincis-virgin-of-the-rocks/

Similarly, here's one by Vermeer of a guy getting a gal drunk. She's put the wine glass to her head and finished it; though he's standing behind her on her right-hand side, his arm has reached all the way past her to the jug of wine to her left:
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/glass_of_wine.html#.VgmgEhy8_n0

As a kid I was always disappointed that my plastic toy soldiers had arms too long relative to their legs, or weapons out of scale to their bodies etc. Nowadays, with modern technology, even when they're trying to use photo-imaging techniques to scale the proportions they still can't get it right. (See examples of some very, very expensive distortions of height to width etc:
http://www.kingandcountry.com/lawrence-arabia-c-83_44.html )

I'm not sure what Sonia can do. In the absence of a national civic honours system it's difficult to pay tribute to her, so inevitably someone will go down the "let's erect a statue" route. Hmm, the original Victoria Crosses were made from the bronze of melted down Chinese/Russian cannons. Perhaps we could have a Sonia Cross? From melted down bronze statues of course!

Thats the xmass presents sorted.