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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
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Bruce, are you saying he's more provocateur or something than "true" artist (whatever that may be)? Thanks to your link, I've come to the opinion that such an opinion may not be unreasonable.
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Left: "Good King" Saint Wenceslas statue in Wenceslas Square, Prague; Josef Václav Myslbek (d. 1922), sculptor. See quote 1 below.
Center: "It is located in the entrance to the Lucerna theater on the southeast side of Wenceslas Square. Sculpture by David Cerný, executed in foam, but made to resemble patinated bronze."
Right: 2003 Cerny installation at Futura Gallery, Prague. See quotes 2 and 3 below.
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"By far Myslbek’s most famous work is the statue of Saint Wenceslas which is located in the center of Wenceslas Square. It took him over 20 years to complete but has since become one of Prague’s most recognizable landmarks and a symbol of Czech statehood."
Quote 2; Spuck wrote:
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What a bunch of butt heads.
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Quote 3:
[Interviewer] And I guess you could describe them as the lower halves of two figures and two tall ladders that you climb so that you can look into the figures' behinds! 
Inside, there's a video installation.
[Cerny] Uh, the video installation is kind of a metaphor of the Czech art-politic, ah, not even art - it's basically a metaphor for the political situation here, when politicians are sort of "feeding" each other in a special way.