[QUOTE=Number7Reds;42472737]This is worse than when they put those giant costumed pig statues around the city of Saskatoon.
They were everywhere and such an eyesore.
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Well, at least the city didn't waste as much money as Calgary.[/QUOTE]
~Paris of the Prairies~
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[QUOTE=Sableye;42473248][t]http://www.brucemiddleton.com/temp/book4final_small.jpg[/t]
we need to go back to art-deco
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art deco is even more obnoxious and pompous than this crap though
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Cities need more surrealist art to offset the boredom
Why do they pay so much for an eyesore? People love the art in my old hometown and I am pretty sure most of it was done by local artists pretty cheap.
[t]http://www.romanticasheville.com/images2009/urbantrail3.jpg[/t]
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[t]http://imgsrv3.aramcoexpats.com/galleries/322/346_4173.jpg[/t]
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You dont have to make a piece of art huge and bright to make it memorable.
[QUOTE=imptastick;42473506]
You dont have to make a piece of art huge and bright to make it memorable.[/QUOTE]
Downtown Calgary has alot of great Grafitti. Hiring more people to do quality stuff like that would probably be cheaper and bring better results than giant circles.
Every time I see something like this, I can't help but feel like someone is using it to launder money.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;42473469]Cities need more surrealist art to offset the boredom[/QUOTE]
Just hire the dude who did the Inception mechanical sets to make some mass-production pieces of the stairwell.
How about they spend the art budget on public greenhouses instead?
You Canadians have a strange sense of art.
[QUOTE=imptastick;42473506]Why do they pay so much for an eyesore? People love the art in my old hometown and I am pretty sure most of it was done by local artists pretty cheap.
[t]http://www.romanticasheville.com/images2009/urbantrail3.jpg[/t]
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[t]http://imgsrv3.aramcoexpats.com/galleries/322/346_4173.jpg[/t]
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You dont have to make a piece of art huge and bright to make it memorable.[/QUOTE]
Dude, you're from Asheville? That's awesome, it's an amazing city, I stayed in a nearby town last year. Yeah, they definitely pull off the whole artistic vibe really well without looking pretentious, I loved just walking around there.
[QUOTE=Geeray;42472482]Not as bad as Edmonton's steel balls right next to the highway.
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This costed the city $600,000[/QUOTE]
That's pretty cool but it might just be in the ugliest possible spot.
That's more of an art installation you'd expect to see in a plaza downtown
I hate it when states/cities throw tons of money at art, that isnt worth a ton.
In this cities case, they couldve just had some sort of a local contest with schools or something.
Tell them "Hey, we are looking for a new art piece to go here. It needs to be atleast xx feet by xx feet, no more than xx by xx. The them we would like is xx. The best submission will recieve $xx as well as be displayed here."
I bet many schools would love to do that, for not a ton of money.
A similar thing happened in Maine.
The state spent $300,000 on three paintings for the turnpike rest area. The artist was from New York, and i think the pictures were puppies.
I know that every school in Maine wouldve loved a contest where the top three got put at the rest area. And theyd be happy if first got $1,000, second got $500, and third got $250.
Some of the pieces in the article are pretty neat, like these:
[img]http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1297477307178_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x[/img]
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I don't quite know why but I kind of like these too.
[img]http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1297477307319_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x[/img]
Fuck we have this in Denver
[IMG]http://puu.sh/4Mghf/5028fb31cc.jpg[/IMG]
It's called an "Articulated Wall" but it looks like a stack of fuckin' french fries
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;42469658]As pointless as the circle is, could you have picked a more obviously biased source?
It seems more intent on telling me why I should be enraged than on telling me about the art in question.[/QUOTE]
Even though the writer sounds pissed, it's in the opinion column - the calgary sun wouldn't print it as news
Uhh, we've got this Vancouver.
[t]http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/22075589.jpg[/t]
Also, this is outside a hospital in what's pretty much the upscale suburb of Vancouver.
[img]http://www.masonrymagazine.com/3-06/art/2-3-Legacy-Salmon.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Del91;42474150]Uhh, we've got this Vancouver.
[t]http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/22075589.jpg[/t]
Also, this is outside a hospital in what's pretty much the upscale suburb of Vancouver.
[img]http://www.masonrymagazine.com/3-06/art/2-3-Legacy-Salmon.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Neither of those are ugly though, the Calgary O thing is ugly.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;42474102]Fuck we have this in Denver
[IMG]http://puu.sh/4Mghf/5028fb31cc.jpg[/IMG]
It's called an "Articulated Wall" but it looks like a stack of fuckin' french fries[/QUOTE]
looks pretty cool
[QUOTE=Geeray;42472482]Not as bad as Edmonton's steel balls right next to the highway.
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This costed the city $600,000[/QUOTE]
Surely the glare off of that shit would blind drivers?
When I was in upper elementary school (something like 15 years ago) they renovated the schools yard and put in some modern art. Basically it was a couple of rusty, featureless squares that I heard cost so much they had to remove things from the spring-ceremony (or whatever it is, a thing that's held when the school year ends here in Finland). :v:
And I always thought
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Was a waste of money. It's called the Vesalius statue.
After now reading up about it, and looking at what other cities drop on their citizens (the huge circle really beeing the low point, IMHO), our Vesalius statue isn't that bad I suppose.
Where did Calgary get the money is what i'm wondering.
wow nice circle op. you sure that people are upset about this circle and the 500,000 large ones spent on it because its a p. nice circle to me. 8/10
i mean ive seen some pretty inferior-grade circles in my day
[img]http://cdn2.all-art.org/Architecture/images17/51.jpg[/img]
this one is pretty much just an egg, which is only sort of a circle. 3/10
[img]http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~databionics/de/images/esom_top_toroid.png[/img]
pretentious tryhard bullshit. 2/10
[img]http://davidbatho.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/triangle.jpg[/img]
ok now people are just fucking with me.
the citizens of calgary should count their lucky stars that they even have a proper circle. i bet the poor fuckers who ended up with that triangle thing would love to have a circle instead.
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[QUOTE=LSK;42474088]
I don't quite know why but I kind of like these too.
[img]http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1297477307319_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x[/img][/QUOTE]
real progressive that Calgary is planning on building a sculpture in a tribes 2 level. finally video games are getting the recognition as art that they deserve
[QUOTE=MyAlt91;42474983]
Where did Calgary get the money is what i'm wondering.[/QUOTE]
you realize the soil in the entire province of alberta can be put into a giant machine which turns it into money right
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sigma this thread isn't the place for toruses
mods ban this joker
Oh hey we've got one in my city too
except it cost [B]£1.5 million[/B]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Alliance_on_the_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg/336px-Alliance_on_the_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg[/img]
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[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Cardiff_Library%2C_The_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Sableye;42473248][t]http://www.brucemiddleton.com/temp/book4final_small.jpg[/t]
we need to go back to art-deco
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i could agree this costs a shit load and still looks beautiful some 80 years later, today's lazy modern minimalist sculptures just won't hold up to time[/QUOTE]
While those are cool, some minimalist art stuff is pretty damn awesome, like:
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Perth_Impossible_Triangle.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;42475054]Oh hey we've got one in my city too
except it cost [B]£1.5 million[/B]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Alliance_on_the_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg/336px-Alliance_on_the_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg[/img]
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[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Cardiff_Library%2C_The_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Well at least they threw in a pointy bit of metal and several colours as a bonus.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;42474010]That's pretty cool but it might just be in the ugliest possible spot.
That's more of an art installation you'd expect to see in a plaza downtown[/QUOTE]
But since this is Alberta an empty spot on the side of the highway will do just fine.
[QUOTE=D3vils Buddy;42475054]Oh hey we've got one in my city too
except it cost [B]£1.5 million[/B]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Alliance_on_the_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg/336px-Alliance_on_the_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg[/img]
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[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Cardiff_Library%2C_The_Hayes%2C_Cardiff.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I just imagined someone falling onto it
dear lord that is shitty
[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;42475003]
[img]http://davidbatho.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/triangle.jpg[/img]
ok now people are just fucking with me.
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Haha I live there, Perth has it's fair share of sculptures, most of them OK.
The problem with this piece is that the effect doesn't work unless your in the right spot, so lots of local people don't even know what the piece is about.
it looks like the world's worst streetlamp
to answer people about where cities get the money, often they're given a budget strictly for improvement projects like parks and entertainment, but have to use it or lose it. Oftentimes it goes into art projects instead of practical things like general landscaping or making new parks because it's also a huge tax dodge. A lot of the cost going into the pieces is due to the fact it's done by one guy or a small team and is very resource intensive for them to put together, say, 2 tons of steel shaped perfectly into a loop, regardless of how awful it ends up being.
it's rare to get a failure of a piece this awful, but I see a lot of people throwing shitfits about some artists being 'tryhards' when the pieces aren't that bad. They're not Michelangelo's David but they tend to provide an interesting focal point in otherwise bland areas
[QUOTE=FelixDragon;42472788]That sounds like they were trying to rip off the Winnipeg bear sculpture invasion
I don't know how much it cost but many years ago Winnipeg set up hundreds of polar bear statues around the city, and they were all painted differently to represent something (cancer foundation, blue bombers, stuff like that)
Was really cool honestly, they put them all up in one night so everyone woke up and was like "woah there's bears everywhere wtf"[/QUOTE]
lots of cities do that, my old school town had dogs, my fiance's college town had these hand things that doubled as weird chairs but you weren't allowed to touch them, and (I think Milwaukee) had cows because wisconsin's all about that cheese
[QUOTE=.Isak.;42473175]i'm all for public art at a reasonable price.
seriously, the cloud gate in chicago is "abstract" and "modern" but nobody is out there saying "wow ugh modern art get rid of that money-wasting filth."
when you pay 650k for a circle, what. if it was somebody buying it privately, ok, sure, but using public funds on art that isn't even particularly visually interesting? please no.[/QUOTE]
everyone loves the bean because it's a huge interactive mirror
also we have pieces strewn about town from Picasso who's to argue there
[QUOTE=Whomobile;42476140]Haha I live there, Perth has it's fair share of sculptures, most of them OK.
The problem with this piece is that the effect doesn't work unless your in the right spot, so lots of local people don't even know what the piece is about.[/QUOTE]
I'd imagine someone should have painted a brightly colored triangle on the ground where you need to stand
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