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What?
What are you talking about?
Most famous? All-pervading?
I've never seen the Angel of the North, nor have a quick sample of workmates.
Great.
What's the bet many other people haven't spoken up for fear of the double bind of not looking like a cultural illiterate?
It's... not that famous.
Finally, I'm not seeing the similarity above any other angel design.
It's an Angel silloutte - how much variation can you get? Wings on a body shape.
How commonly used are angels? Very. :P
How similar are these designs? Not very.
The only thing vaguely similar is the wingspan, which is clearly taken from a maori kite, not a landmark in England (and isn't that a little english centric?).
It actually looks less like the Angel of the North & the maori kite displayed, in that it rounded off the wings, when the originals had neither.
Actually, it looks a lot like some cardboard christmas angel decorations my family had when I was a kid.
The body of course, is completely different in design, with the sylised legs like that of the Maori kite. I fail to see how it's more like the Angel of the North than a Maori kite, in any way, or how any of them really distinguish themselves from run of the mill angel sillouttes.
...
What?
What are you talking about?
Most famous? All-pervading?
I've never seen the Angel of the North, nor have a quick sample of workmates.
Great.
What's the bet many other people haven't spoken up for fear of the double bind of not looking like a cultural illiterate?
It's... not that famous.
Finally, I'm not seeing the similarity above any other angel design.
It's an Angel silloutte - how much variation can you get? Wings on a body shape.
How commonly used are angels? Very. :P
How similar are these designs? Not very.
The only thing vaguely similar is the wingspan, which is clearly taken from a maori kite, not a landmark in England (and isn't that a little english centric?).
It actually looks less like the Angel of the North & the maori kite displayed, in that it rounded off the wings, when the originals had neither.
Actually, it looks a lot like some cardboard christmas angel decorations my family had when I was a kid.
The body of course, is completely different in design, with the sylised legs like that of the Maori kite. I fail to see how it's more like the Angel of the North than a Maori kite, in any way, or how any of them really distinguish themselves from run of the mill angel sillouttes.
Cheers.