Another masterpiece has been added to a rapidly expanding subgenre of art: sculptures of famous athletes that look nothing like those famous athletes.
Brandi Chastain, the soccer star whose pull-her-jersey-off goal celebration in the 1999 World Cup provided one of sport’s most iconic moments, is the latest, er, victim of sculptural farcicalism. She was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame on Monday night, and her plaque has been universally judged to be even worse than the previous worst of this budding movement.
A sculpture of the soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo at the Madeira International Airport in Portugal unveiled last year was widely derided in the seldom-tempered Twitterverse as really bad.