This could have been well done, it wasn't obviously. What this needed was a head and an actual art historical reference.
What it appears to be now is basically a hacked up female done with the explicit intent of portraying everything but breasts as being feckless, as if all parts of a female could be violently hacked away and as long as the "salient lust objects" remain it would still be considered a "complete" woman.
This is violent, vulgar, obvious and shallow. Disembodied breasts and vagina do not make a woman, this "bust" represents a view of Greek statuary that only a pornographer of the worst kind would have.
Take the so called Venus of Vienne or "Crouching Aphrodite". The choice to remove it's arms and head was made by the wear of time rather than the artist. It's beauty lies in the recognition of the natural form, the folds of fat and skin along the abdomen, the un-idealized breasts and indeed the "romantic" tragedy of the loss of whole, both of the figure and the context it belonged to as evidenced by the broken hand on it's back.
This statuette lacks the appreciation of natural form, it's a symbol of "magazine culture", of a forced sense of perfection paired with violent abbreviation of the apparent importance of the figure. The only merit I can ascribe to this work is that of it's irony, a bit of consumer junk that comes packaged with a videogame that depicts the literal mutilation of a cultural paradigm while allowing the focus of that paradigm, namely "perfect" breasts, to remain as conspicuous as it would if it were being depicted by one of the champions of that cultural paradigm.
This may have actually been a good idea if they had only used something like the Venus de Milo or the Aphrodite of Cnidus as a model, then they might have actually made a statement about tragedy and perhaps of irony, as it stands it doesn't provide the context of Greek statuary and because it's abbreviated only serves as a vulgar trophy.
What it appears to be now is basically a hacked up female done with the explicit intent of portraying everything but breasts as being feckless, as if all parts of a female could be violently hacked away and as long as the "salient lust objects" remain it would still be considered a "complete" woman.
This is violent, vulgar, obvious and shallow. Disembodied breasts and vagina do not make a woman, this "bust" represents a view of Greek statuary that only a pornographer of the worst kind would have.
Take the so called Venus of Vienne or "Crouching Aphrodite". The choice to remove it's arms and head was made by the wear of time rather than the artist. It's beauty lies in the recognition of the natural form, the folds of fat and skin along the abdomen, the un-idealized breasts and indeed the "romantic" tragedy of the loss of whole, both of the figure and the context it belonged to as evidenced by the broken hand on it's back.
This statuette lacks the appreciation of natural form, it's a symbol of "magazine culture", of a forced sense of perfection paired with violent abbreviation of the apparent importance of the figure. The only merit I can ascribe to this work is that of it's irony, a bit of consumer junk that comes packaged with a videogame that depicts the literal mutilation of a cultural paradigm while allowing the focus of that paradigm, namely "perfect" breasts, to remain as conspicuous as it would if it were being depicted by one of the champions of that cultural paradigm.
This may have actually been a good idea if they had only used something like the Venus de Milo or the Aphrodite of Cnidus as a model, then they might have actually made a statement about tragedy and perhaps of irony, as it stands it doesn't provide the context of Greek statuary and because it's abbreviated only serves as a vulgar trophy.
