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Not everybody a big fan of the big baby heads outside the MFA
By adamg on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 7:54am
Dave Daniels writes:
If you've got an evil and sadistic brother like mine, it brings back memories of my little sister's doll's heads being removed from their bodies. And her youthful screams of horror. And a local dog running by with one of the heads in his mouth as he made for the forest with said severed heads. ...
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I am also not a fan. They
I am also not a fan. They creep me out.
Beats Hell Out Of...
... the big bunch of dicks near the entrance by the parking lot.
(That's what it looks like to me, anyway. Let the Freudian analysis fly.)
Suldog
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Oh come on
That's not a bunch of dicks.
It's an overflowing toilet in a Greek bus station.
What? Where?
Now, how did I miss that? I'm going to have to go back and look now...
he tells a compelling tale.
excellent combination of baby heads and prose.
Where are the giant breasts?
The ones that go with the babyheads? Not Hooters or equivalent, but something more like Woody Allen?
Babies have got to have something to eat, and tainted bottles just wont do!
The day they were first installed...
--on the side facing Huntington Ave.--I was riding by on the bus.
A crane was lowering one of them into place.
The head, suspended in a big sling, was slowly rotating like Linda Blair's in The Exorcist.
That was surreal!
baby heads
Well at least they look like baby heads and aren't some ridulous abstract piece of crap. Outside of our local courthouse is this piece of "sculpture" that looks like a kidney/intestine/twirly/tube thingy. I'd rather see baby heads anyday.
giant babies
FACTS: The “big giant baby heads” outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are a pair (one awake and one asleep) collectively entitled "Day and Night." Each bronze is about 8 feet tall and weighs over 1.6 tons. Created by Spanish realist Antonio López García, they were modeled after the artist’s grandchildren.
OPINIONS: Passing the MFA on the 39 bus several times a week, I regarded these two baby monsters with scorn. I thought they didn’t harmonize with the façade of the building or with the other exterior artwork. They seemed ugly and, even worse, obvious. Then I saw Antonio López García’s exhibit inside the museum. His painting defies exact definition by any vocabulary at my disposal, but I hope it’s accurate to say that uses a sort of pointillist technique to create an effect that’s realism and surrealism at the same time. It was the most amazing exhibit I’ve seen in several years and I left with a new favorite living artist. Informed by my enthusiasm for the rest of his work, I wasn’t bothered by these heads any more.