The Casuals

​"Liberation," Stonewall National Monument, New York, NY: By contrast with Kissing Students, Segal’s sculpture appears to be made of plaster, the inexpensive material many sculptors use for a “first draft” of a work. Segal created his sculptures by wrapping models in strips of wet plaster. Its appearance as a permanent installation in a public space is a Pop Art response to “elite” sculptures of bronze and marble. (An outdoor work, it is, unusually for Segal, overpainted bronze). The figures appear seated, in casual clothes. Don’t their hands say a lot--one for themselves, one for each other?