Author Topic: St Pancras artwork - WTF were they thinking?  (Read 991 times)

rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Julian

  • samoture
Re: St Pancras artwork - WTF were they thinking?
« Reply #1 on: 12 October, 2008, 08:12:11 pm »
Intended to be uplifting, hm?

Someone, somewhere, thought this was a good idea.  ::-)

LEE

Re: St Pancras artwork - WTF were they thinking?
« Reply #2 on: 13 October, 2008, 09:04:20 am »
"Your in-flight movie today will be 9/11 - Terror from the Skies"

Re: St Pancras artwork - WTF were they thinking?
« Reply #3 on: 13 October, 2008, 09:05:34 am »
 ::-)
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: St Pancras artwork - WTF were they thinking?
« Reply #4 on: 13 October, 2008, 10:35:52 am »
TBF, I can see how, if we are including all the iconography of the railway (and indeed, that was pretty much the brief, according to the nooze), the death/fear of death, particularly of falling off a platform under a train, has been part of the history of the railway since the start.  In addition, the scene was a small part of the frieze, reflected in a pair of glasses, indicating with the usual symbolism that it was part of the imagination or interior thoughts of a person, and thus a subjective view.

I still think it was a mistake to include it, though, given the site.
Getting there...

Re: St Pancras artwork - WTF were they thinking?
« Reply #5 on: 13 October, 2008, 12:12:47 pm »


wouldn't have approved.
Working my way up to inferior.

Flying_Monkey

Re: St Pancras artwork - WTF were they thinking?
« Reply #6 on: 13 October, 2008, 01:34:26 pm »
One could ask the same question of the vast, unsubtle and ugly sculpture by the same artist that dominates the entrance.