The author is criticized for excessive frankness of the monument to the graduates of 1941, established in the Moscow suburb of Sergiev Posad, priest Eugene Antonov remake the sculpture. He stated TVERIGRAD.RU.
“What angered some public Sergiev Posad, I clean, add pleats, polished surface, in General, cite the sculpture at the salon. The details that has caused outrage, I poured in the near future, — said Antonov. — At first I took it as a joke, laughed it off. Then I realized that I don’t understand the mentality that something has changed in the world in the concept of beauty, its belonging to the body.”
It is noted that the work on the sculpture is underway in Smolensk at the foundry.
The monument to the graduates of 1941, opened in late June on the Boulevard Kuznetsova in Sergiev Posad. Citizens criticized the monument, finding that it too depicts erotic dance girls and a young man. Citizens drew attention to women’s Breasts, which, in their opinion, turned out to be too expressive. Commenced collecting signatures for the restoration of the location of the monument flower beds that were there before.
The author of the monument — the priest of the Church in honor of Kazan icon of the Mother of God in the village of Vlas’yevo, Tver region Yevgeny Antonov, who is also the head of the Tver branch of the Union of artists of Russia.
The monument to the graduates of 1941 will be part of the memorial complex, which will be built for the 75th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war.