There is no Justice...when it comes to bad taste

Is this art or Kitsch? Sculpture by self taught artist Aslan Baspinar adorns the entrance of the new High Courts in Ankara, Turkey. The artist claims that the influence for the dress comes from a 1922 stamp and he had no intention of depicting justice godess Themis [*]. Well of course her eyes are not blindfolded. This pedestrian sculpture is just another addition to state sponsored Turkish Kitsch. Truly she has all the charm of a market vendor not a dispenser of justice.
Mavi Boncuk |

[*] Themis is an ancient Greek goddess. She is described as "of good counsel", and was the embodiment of divine order, law, and custom. Themis means "law of nature" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in place", from the verb τίθημι, títhēmi, to put. To the ancient Greeks she was originally the organizer of the "communal affairs of humans, particularly assemblies.[1]" Moses Finley remarked of Themis, as the word was used by Homer in the 8th century, to evoke the social order of the 10th and 9th-century Greek Dark Ages:

Themis is untranslatable. A gift of the gods and a mark of civilized existence, sometimes it means right custom, proper procedure, social order, and sometimes merely the will of the gods (as revealed by an omen, for example) with little of the idea of right.[2]

1. (University of Washington School of Law) Themis, Goddess of Justice
2. Finley, The World of Odysseus, rev. ed.(New York: Viking Prewss) 1978: 78, note.