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==Reception==
The giant cock received generally positive reviews from art critics, with punning headlines such as "Big blue cock erected on fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square",<ref name="Guardian" /> "Boris Johnson in Trafalgar Square with a Massive Blue Cock And Disgruntled Woman"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/25/boris-johnson-caption-comp_n_3651708.html|title=Boris Johnson in Trafalgar Square with a Massive Blue Cock And Disgruntled Woman|work=The Huffington Post UK|date=25 July 2013|accessdate=28 July 2013}}</ref> and "Boris Johnson unveils giant cock in Trafalgar Square"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/boris-johnson-giant-cock-trafalgar-square-london|title=Boris Johnson unveils giant cock in Trafalgar Square|publisher=MSN UK|last=Jones|first=Ian|date=25 July 2013|accessdate=28 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728122743/http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/boris-johnson-giant-cock-trafalgar-square-london|archive-date=28 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>).
[[Adrian Searle]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' commented that "the scale and modelling and degree of detail feel right", with a "lifelike and other-worldly" feel to the sculpture. He felt that it avoided "straining to look meaningful or relevant" and that despite its irreverence, it "lightens the mood and lifts the spirit."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jul/25/fourth-plinth-gives-nelson-the-bird|last=Searle|first=Adrian|title=Fourth plinth: Katharina Fritsch's cockerel gives Nelson the bird|work=The Guardian|date=25 July 2013|accessdate=28 July 2013}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'s'' Serena Davis did not regard it as being as impressive as some of the previous works to have stood on the fourth plinth, but nonetheless called it "one of the jolliest things to have sat upon the square's spare plinth since the public art commissions for it began in 2005."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/10201962/Fourth-Plinth-Trafalgar-Square-Cock-review.html|title=Fourth Plinth Trafalgar Square: Cock, review|last=Davies|first=Serena|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=25 July 2013|accessdate=28 July 2013}}</ref>
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