Sunday, January 31, 2010

Who wallpapered the Art Gallery?


Public art and other very appealing outdoors beautifications have been done in Vancouver for the Olympic games that are about to start.

Unfortunately, someone seems to have wallpapered the outside north wall of the Art Gallery with chintzy pink and red flowered paper.

I had heard there was an interesting flower display on the outside of the Art Gallery, so I went over to take a look. Oh dear. I thought it would be one big flower. Or a big bouquet of flowers. Or something really spectacular. It isn't.

I know art is a personal matter of taste, but that seems to be a cheap cop-out rather than a challenge that an artist took to heart and worked hard on. So does the pattern repeat every 10 metres? Or does it repeat every 15 metres? What kind of material did they print it on?

The Art Gallery is a very architecturally interesting building with pillars and carvings. It looked better without the latest art installation attached to it.

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