I don't think that it's fair to say that it turns the bull into a villain, or misrepresents a thing. She doesn't have a weapon, and isn't there to kill it. The bull is there to symbolize intimidating strength, and the little girl is there to be unintimidated by it, while bolstering no such pretensions in her own representation.
The hyper-modern post figurative school would see only two pieces of juxtaposed steel on a street imposing a barrier to pedestrians and mentally noted that oddity. This school is notorious for its silence, as it shuns the use of symbols or sounds as an inappropriate figurative representation of reality. To write about it is to write about something else.They're inanimate objects, with no concerns at all. — Wosret
Innocence should not be confused with weakness. — Cavacava
As far as I can tell, the bull was originally about strength (and capitalism?). Whoopdedoo! — VagabondSpectre
State Street Global Advisors, which manages some $2.5 trillion in assets, signaled its solidarity with the day’s demonstrators (International Women's Day march). The company installed a roughly 50-inch-tall bronze statue of a defiant girl in front of Wall Street's iconic charging-bull statue...
... Fearless Girl is part of State Street’s campaign to pressure companies to add more women to their boards.
Do you think the ontological of the Bull provides the power behind the "Fearless Girl". — Cavacava
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