Statue Of Marilyn Monroe Unveiled

You can feel the beauty. Understand why John F Kenneddy was mad even though he had a beautiful wife. No insult to Womanhood. Marlyane committed sucide to avoid herself the pain to see the Ugly Marlyane in old age. Great simply great. 26ft statue of Marilyn Monroe is unveiled in the Windy City  By Amy Oliver Last updated at 10:02 AM on 16th July 2011   That pose, that dress, the blonde hair, the luscious lips ...  A 26-foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe towering above tourists in the middle of Chicago was unveiled on Friday to much applause. Bemused shoppers stopped and stared, a boy tried to crawl up her leg and the men from a wedding party could not resist taking a few photos from all angles. Scroll down for videos High and mighty: The curious gather around Seward Johnson's 26ft sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in Chicago     Desperate to keep her identity a secret until Friday, workers who put the statue in place on Thursday had to put a rather unsightly cloth bag over the poor girl's head, albeit it one in red, white and blue. The statue, by artist Seward Johnson, replicates the actress's famous subway scene in 1955 film The Seven Year Itch and was unveiled on Chicago's Pioneer Court. In the scene Monroe stands over a subway grate as a breeze from a train passing below blows her skirt over her panties. It was shot in New York but as the Windy City, Chicago seems like the second best location for such an art work. Cameras at the ready: While their wives and girlfriends were not there, the men from a wedding party took scores of photos from all different angles  Now THAT'S a Kodak moment! Or at least an iPhone moment Simply irresistible: A cheeky boy tries to scale her leg while some really enjoy the rear views   It will be on show through the Spring of 2012. The stainless steel and aluminium sculpture, which weighs a whopping 34,000lbs, has raised more than a few eyebrows. Not least because visitors to the plaza are at once confronted with Monroe's pert bottom in gleaming white panties and her perfect pins bedecked in white, open-toe kitten heels. Covered up: A worker puts the finishing touches to the statue on Thursday What did you do at work today darling? One man touches up the statue's under carriage with paint Breathtaking views: A worker is seen spraying the statue's panties before the great unveiling on Friday  You missed a bit: Well, Monroe always did have men at her feet   Men have been spotted gawping while their wives get cross and attempt to shield their eyes and lots of people have stopped to take a quick snap of the giantess before she goes public tomorrow. Not all are happy of course. Abraham Ritchie wrote on Art Chicago Blog the statue was a 'creepy schlock from a fifth-rate sculptor that blights a first-rate public art collection.' But the Zeller Realty Group, which owns the plaza and now its statue, wants Marilyn to make people think. ...And the real thing: Monroe cools off via the subway in front of Tom Ewell in The Seven Year Itch