Fine Art, Frieze Art and Landscape Architecture
Thinking, sometimes, that landscape designers can turn to artists, much as we turn to engineers and ecologists, for specialist inspiration on projects, I went to the Frieze Art Fair this afternoon. By way of a review: I found about 2% of the exhibits wonderful and 40% of them trash. Judging from the way other visitors were pacing up and down the aisles, I suspect this opinion is common. Fortunately, we visitors were in disagreement as to which works of art fell into which category. I came away with some design ideas but, better than that, I stopped on the way home to buy a box of Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic Color. I did not bang into any celebs, unless you count the blue statue of Norman Foster. He can be seen on the video and on this webpage. I was very impressed by the high style in which most visitors were dressed - but instead of high style bikes outside there was a fleet of sinister Black Series 7 BMWs labelled ‘Frieze art 2009 VIP transport’. Trust me, life is better on a Brompton.
First they did ‘cows’ [ http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=painted%20cows&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi ] now they are doing ‘architects’ what next?
Comment by Christine — October 20, 2009 @ 5:16 am
I have seen some cow parade work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CowParade Do you think we are all going to be offered fibreglass Norman Fosters to paint? I would do mine in what a friend used to call ‘architect’s green’ - a rather acid yellow-green - but with Damien Hirst spots.
Comment by Tom Turner — October 20, 2009 @ 5:29 am
I wonder if Norman Foster would be in favour of this idea? Perhaps he could persuade some brave colleagues to join his immortalisation in the art world in the name of charity! [Perhaps for green projects in developing countries?]
Comment by Christine — October 21, 2009 @ 6:19 am
I do not think that a sense of humour is one of Norman Foster’s stronger points.
Comment by Tom Turner — October 21, 2009 @ 6:53 am
What are you going to do with the Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic Colour?
Comment by Marian — October 22, 2009 @ 10:50 am
Seascapes.
Comment by Tom Turner — October 22, 2009 @ 10:59 am