{"id":7456,"date":"2024-12-04T08:15:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T08:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2024-12-04T08:15:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T08:15:36","slug":"art-critic-mocks-notorious-dwyane-wade-statue-he-looks-like-the-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=7456","title":{"rendered":"Art Critic Mocks Notorious Dwyane Wade Statue: \u2018He Looks Like the Rock\u2019.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dwyane-wade-statue.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dwyane-wade-statue.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dwyane-wade-statue.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dwyane-wade-statue.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"dwyane wade statue\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"5352\" data-dom-ready-time=\"22687\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Dwyane Wade statue.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aprominent New York art critic is slamming the controversial statue of\u00a0NBA legend\u00a0Dwyane Wade.<\/p>\n<p>The Pablo Torres Finds Out page shared\u00a0a clip from the video to X and wrote, \u201cJerry Saltz, the Pulitzer-winning art critic for @NYMag, took a flamethrower to the Heat\u2019s new Dwyane Wade statue. \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude02\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is an absolute (expletive) work of art. It looks like a little mini statue on an idiotic store-bought trophy. There\u2019s nothing to it other than the pose. He looks like The Rock, he looks white \u2014 which is fine with me \u2014 but, you know, it has no character,\u201d the critic said. \u201cIt has no ambiance. It has no internal scale. It has no feel for its material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look anything like him,\u201d Saltz added in the video, questioning \u201chow much did they pay for it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The critic added that he would \u201cpay $400 for that and put it in a backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, the statue was unveiled outside the Miami Heat\u2019s stadium in late October and quickly was criticized by fans.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Art Critic Declared That the Dwyane Wade Statue \u2018Looks Like Art by Committee\u2019<\/h2>\n<div class=\"embed-youtube-com\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Play\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QIOyrsudcTU?autoplay=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The podcast shared an NBC News interview with the statue\u2019s artists, who said Wade visited with them four times, approved the statue, and noted that they used a computer to perfect it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like art by committee,\u201d Saltz said. \u201cThat\u2019s what it is. It looks like art by more than one person with no touch, no hand. Only an idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saltz conceded that the artists \u201csincerely wanted to make this realistic.\u201d But he said, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like anybody.\u201d He noted, \u201cCould they have made something magnificent? Yes, they could. But they could have also made something much worse. It could have been a piece of string tied to a chain . . . that happens as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSo this is a happy medium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube page caption reads, \u201cNot since the Greco-Roman period has sculpture mattered this much in sports. And Jerry Saltz \u2014 the Pulitzer Prize-winning senior art critic for New York magazine \u2014 has zero idea who Dwyane Wade is.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Dwyane Wade Defended the Statue, Saying It Doesn\u2019t Have to Look Like Him<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5214082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-inline wp-image-5214082 visible\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=379\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg 2984w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=107,150 107w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=214,300 214w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=768,1075 768w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=731,1024 731w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=1097,1536 1097w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=1463,2048 1463w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=379,531 379w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=780,1092 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=425,595 425w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=471,660 471w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=121,169 121w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=129,180 129w\" alt=\"dwyane wade statute\" width=\"379\" height=\"531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5214082\" data-lazy-load=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=379\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg 2984w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=107,150 107w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=214,300 214w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=768,1075 768w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=731,1024 731w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=1097,1536 1097w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=1463,2048 1463w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=379,531 379w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=780,1092 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=425,595 425w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=471,660 471w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=121,169 121w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2181613301.jpg?resize=129,180 129w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5214082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Dwyane Wade interacts with fans as they visit his statue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an earlier interview with ESPN, Wade defended the statue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I wanted it to look like me, I\u2019d just stand outside the arena and y\u2019all can take photos,\u201d Wade told ESPN. \u201cIt don\u2019t need to look like me. It\u2019s the artistic version of a moment that happened that we\u2019re trying to cement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, the statue is meant to capture a specific iconic Wade moment, that being, \u201cthe end of a game against the Chicago Bulls in March 2009, when he made a shot to win at the buzzer of double overtime, hopped up onto a courtside table and yelled, \u2018This is my house.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI care, but I don\u2019t,\u201d Wade said, according to ESPN. \u201cThe social media world is about opinions. Everyone has an opinion. Everyone, use y\u2019all opinions. Please talk more about us. Talk more about a statue, come on down to see it, take some photos, send some memes. We don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Dwyane Wade statue. Aprominent New York art critic is slamming the controversial statue of\u00a0NBA legend\u00a0Dwyane Wade. 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