Arturo Di Modica, 76, the Sicilian artist who created the Charging Bull sculpture that stands on Wall Street to celebrate the prosperity and strength of America, is furious that his sculpture now faces the bronze Fearless Girl statue installed March 7 to celebrate International Women’s day.
Di Modica told MarketWatch: “That is not a symbol! That’s an advertising trick. My bull is a symbol for America. My bull is a symbol of prosperity and for strength. Women, girls, that’s great, but that’s not what that (my sculpture) is.” He added to the NY Daily News: “I did it for all the American people. Not designed for men, women or gay.”
Di Modica donated the Charging Bull statue to New York City in 1989 after he spent $350,000 of his own money to cast the 7,100 lb bronze bull. He placed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989 to comfort Americans after the stock-market crash in 1987.
State Street Global placed the Fearless Girl opposite the bull as a symbol of the company’s effort to encourage gender diversity on Wall Street.
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Somebody should put a statue of the girl’s muslim husband standing behind her.
The “Fearless Girl” is dead meat. More Suicidally Enlightened stupidity from the progressive left.
Oh yeah, that’s right, gender diversity made America great. Gender diversity threw out the British, built the bridges and railroads, dug the Panama Canal, won the wars, and put men on the moon. And a pre-teen made of bronze is the best these girly men can come up with.
“Young Rachel Corrie”
@Thirdtwin: “the girl’s muslim husband standing behind her.”
Allah forbid a female stand before her husband!
Liberals are always blowing their load all over anything which represents American greatness and exceptionalism. To them the job isn’t complete until it drips with their foul fluids and vile stench. I propose a statue of a pussy hat wearing feminist standing amidst a crowd of moozlum men with her middle finger extended towards them. That is a courages (yet foolish) posture.
Courageous
“Allah forbid a female stand before her husband!”
…except when walking through minefields and towards raging bulls.
Well, it is better than a 26 foot tall Monroe statue bleeding in the middle of freaking Chitcago!
How about a statue of a cow? Right sex and would make the bull happy.
Or a statue of a huge Capitalist pig to keep the muslims out!
Leftist art: turning Wall Street into Pamplona one statue at a time.
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“…except when walking through minefields and towards raging bulls.”
Jake LaMotta could not be reached for comment. 🙂
We need to start a fundraiser to cover adding her manly servant, wearing an explicitly uncolored hat, of specific shape, applying a Burdizzo with one hand, and giving Fearless Girl a thumbs up with the other. And let’s have an “exaggerated” “cartoon” wink, on his face, as he gazes adoringly at his mistress.
Good for him.
The idiots had no idea what the bull stands for no one called them on it.
I think it’s appropriate.
the girl is thanking American capitalism for creating the greatest standard of living known which allows her to be more than a “man’s property”, which she was considered before the great American experiment occurred!
or maybe not. modern artist don’t have many brains anymore. or real talent. or anything enlightening to say.
“modern artist don’t have”
bfh excluded
I’m on the bull’s side. I’d rather be a tough, bold son of a bitch than a little puny armed girl with a bitch face. Putting that girl statue there implies that bull is either going to crush her or she’s going to run away. Or maybe depicting she’s a little retarded and got away from her parents at the zoo. either way, *squish* lol.
The statue is truly a description of the Left and all their bullshit.
Stand defiantly against an overwhelming force without preparation, without a plan, and certainly no idea of the gravity of the situation.
The Left ‘wants to be seen’ and noted for their pluck and courage, results be damned.
And when the forces of reality crush the defiant poses of the Left, well then, it surely must be somebody else who is at fault, because ‘we displayed’ our defiance.
When I first saw this “art” installation it made me think of an article I had read. “An ACCIDENTAL martyr? The 100-year mystery of why suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under the king’s horse” Some thought she had committed suicide to bring attention to her cause, some thought she only meant to try and stop the horse and tag it with suffragette banners. When she popped up on the racetrack in front of the horse, she held up her hands as though commanding the horse to halt. Only problem is that a horse running flat out can’t stop on a dime.
And I honestly believe that these activists believe that they have a divine right, and so common sense is abandoned. Their “rightness” turns them into superpeople. This girl statue is a projection of this conceit.