R.I.P. PRINCE HARRY

Posted Thursday, October 11th, 2007 at 8:03 am
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A work of art entitled ‘The Death of Prince Harry’ by artist Daniel Edwards is on display at the Bridge Art Fair today in London.

The Memorial features Prince Harry laid out before the Union Jack with pennies placed over his eyes and head resting on the Bible. The statue suggests the tragic outcome of a confrontation in Iraq’s Maysan Province with the Iranian weapons smugglers for whom Harry’s tank regiment was scheduled to patrol. Prone with his unfired gun still holstered, Prince Harry is represented clutching the bloodied flag of Wales, and holding to his heart a cameo locket of his late mother, Princess Diana, while a desert vulture perches on his boot.

Our thoughts? Is this art? Or just disturbing?

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31 Comments to “R.I.P. PRINCE HARRY”

  1. beforesunrise
    1

    Art *IS* often disturbing
    (anyway this is pretty creepy)

  2. MYkAELle
    2

    its very interesting of course its arts to question that is just stupid

  3. Cee Pee
    3

    WOW!!

  4. Anonymous
    4

    Art’s main purposes are to question, challenge & open a dialogue.

  5. marina
    5

    Perfectly vile.

  6. starr
    6

    How morbid…but of course it is art, art should provoke some sort of strong feeling or thought. Though I don’t think the face looks a lot like Harry, maybe it’s the pennies…

    I just googled him and he’s the same guy who did the sculpture of Britney giving birth…now THAT was distrubing….. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Edwards

  7. starr
    7

    ^ The face didn’t look like Brit either…he needs to work more on the facial resemblances…..

  8. adam
    8

    coulda done without the vulture FOR SURE…
    i dunno, is this an anti war statement? is it a dark wish from the artist? is it to make us realize the true cost of war? ooooooh! why not be really cutting edge and show him in a victorious nationalist position…i mean, usually, all we hear is criticism that elites’ children do not carry a burden for their nations, and here harry is a true braveheart and yet that still isn’t enough to satisfy this liberal.
    anyways, what does iran have to do with it? they’re perfect angels. we’re the only imperialists around.

  9. parissucksliterally
    9

    I got scared when I read the caption!
    I just woke up….whew.
    this is disturbing to me.

  10. Anonymous
    10

    harry a true braveheart? give me a break! he hasn’t seen 1 iota of combat.

  11. supernova
    11

    I likes.

  12. just askin'
    12

    Daniel Edwards is not an artist. He is nothing but a minutely-talented media whore. And that is nothing but a pile of slag in front of him. Art? Not a fuckin’ chance.

  13. Uproar
    13

    Gratuitous.

    Not really thought provoking, as it seems this type of thing has been done before. The cameo of Di? That’s what you would expect of this type of art. Nothing original, except for maybe the vulture….

  14. Anonymous
    14

    Lying on your back is called ’supine’ not prone, which is lying face-down.

  15. EAT IT
    15

    interesting but i find it disturbing. when i first saw the title, i was like WTF?!
    i just don’t like this subject matter.

  16. my2cents
    16

    Gross.

  17. ooooooooooo
    17

    I REALLY REALLY HATE THIS SHITTY ARTIST AND HIM GRABBING ATTENTION BY DOING THIS LAME ART. PLEASE DO NOT POST ANY MORE OF HIS SILLY DULL WORK. NOT INTERESTING, NOT FUNNY. NOT WORTH THE TIME TO MAKE IT OR READ ABOUT IT.

  18. Sharona
    18

    Brilliant and thought provoking yet quite disturbing and macabre

  19. sally
    19

    “Just askin” is right. this is not art but a repulsive attempt at attention. Nothing artistic there. Yuck!

  20. HUH?
    20

    PLEASE BITCHES…IS ART…EVEN IF YOU WANT TO FRAME YOUR SHIT….IT WOULD STILL BE ART….ART IF FUCKED UP LIKE THAT SOMETIMES….I THINK IT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE HIM BUT I LIKE….

  21. HUH?
    21

    OOOOH…LOL…I SEE SOME OF YOU BITCHES ARE CHUNKETTES…AND HATE HIM FOR A BRITNEY “ART” PIECE…IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW…LOL..

  22. Stephi
    22

    You know…I can kind of see where the artist is coming from here and he has obviously put a lot of thought into this but to make a dead sculpture of somebody who is still alive is just disrespectful to me and kind of creepy. I’m sure Harry feels pretty awful seeing this and his family would be disturbed by this. It’s in poor taste that’s for sure. He probably only did it to cause a stir, which I’m sure he has already achieved.

  23. cocobra
    23

    debating whether or not something is Art is irrelevant since by its very nature, Art (with a big ‘A’) is without defenition. I think it a better use of time to think about the choices people make in creating and marketing objects and discuss how we react to them. this is what most people with at least general knowledge of art history do. people who dismiss objects as not being ‘art’ at all because they don’t like what the artist is saying are simply showing their lack of knowledge of the visual arts and missing the whole point of creative expression.

    saying this artwork, or any artwork, is not art is like reading a book that you don’t like or don’t agree with and then proclaiming on that basis alone that it is not a piece of writing, which is just ludicrous.

  24. just askin'
    24

    Cocobra, by your definition, I could take a crap on a piece of Wedgewood, put it on display and call it art. And by your definition, you would have to think about my “choice” to take a crap on Wedgewood, and discuss my “motivation” for taking a crap on a piece of Wedgewood, and applaud my “creative expression.”

    It’s not art just because some attention-seeking loser calls it art, m’kay?

    And BTW, your analogy is what’s ludicrous, pet. Call a book a poorly-written, incomprehensible piece of trash doesn’t make it “not a book.” It simply means it has been judged and found unworthy. Calling a piece of art garbage means it is unworthy as well.

    Creating something for the sole purpose of getting publicity is not art. And art, whether crap or genius, is not immune from criticism.

    Do supplement your “general knowledge of art history” with a couple of classes in Logic, sweetie. You’ve obviously some serious problems in constructing a logical response to someone calling a piece of shit a piece of shit.

  25. Ren
    25

    I love it. If I were prince Harry I’d buy it for my garden.

  26. Ren
    26

    Ya know what just askin’? If you shat on a piece of Wedgewood and called it art, I’d think about it for a second and call it crap. Art? Sure, if you called it that - but my opinion would be that you are an artist that creates crap. Art can exist to be art in it’s own right (even though YOU don’t like it - it will still be art despite you). Honestly, what a tool.

  27. sigh
    27

    disturbing. he’s still alive. i’d be especially disturbed if i were prince harry and saw that. it’d be the same feeling as if some weird psychic voodoo guy predicted your death. it’s scary

  28. sigh
    28

    imagine if you were prince harry and you learnt that some creepy guy out there had been working for months sculpting a statue of your corpse.

  29. just askin'
    29

    Ren, you’re just as big an idiot as cocobra. But guess what–just because I call you an idiot doesn’t mean that you are, and that the rest of the world is compelled to agree with me.

    So it goes with art. Just because I shit on a piece of Wedgewood and call it art doesn’t mean the rest of the world is compelled to call it thus. It’s shit on Wedgewood, baby. Your calling it art doesn’t make it so, either.

    And so it goes with the self-labeled artist Edwards and his self-labeled art. Frankly, I could shit on a piece of Wedgewood and have it be more thought-provoking and meaningful than that so-called art featured above.

    The only tool here is you, Ren, because you can’t seem to understand that not everything is worthy of being called art.

  30. Ren
    30

    heh…you almost made my beverage come out of my nose. Your grandiosity is hilarious!

  31. Dude
    31

    love it.

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