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Trewillan
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13 years ago

#21

And what do the Police do when the vandal/artist/criminal has kindly left his details? I have recent experience where there has been clear identification but no follow up at all.

Would the Human Rights Act prevent them being made to scrape off every bit of paint with their fingernails?

stuey
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13 years ago

#22

Along with the gravy train of useless, unemployable lefties are a few "artists". Obviously, when an industrial relic is dynamically celebrated, it needs to reflect the wishes and blue skies thinking of stakeholders and the "community" .

This would appear to include art, usually of the worst metal sort.

I view art like pornography, in fact I don't...that's a crap analogy. It should be something you pro-actively seek out and is otherwise discreet.

carnkie
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13 years ago

#23

"stuey" wrote:
It should be something you pro-actively seek out and is otherwise discreet.

Why? Is the Angel of the North not art.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Trewillan
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13 years ago

#24

Personal view, but I think the Angel of the North is good art.

In an appropriate place, an interesting idea by someone who knows something about structural engineering, fabrication and welding. Feasible (but not easy!) to construct, low maintenance and used local skilled labour.

Graffiti at Botallack (Original Post) is none of these.

Roy Morton
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13 years ago

#25

Does anyone remember the huge glitterball that was suspended in Marriot's engine house on South Frances mine?
some 'artist' or other constructed the ball out of hundreds of 4 inch square plastic mirror tiles. it must have been about 10 to 12 feet in diameter, and was suspended from a scaffold constructed frame so the ball would be seen through the bob wall of the house.
I can't begin to imagine how much this cost the community, but the thing was only there for a few days before someone knifed the strop it was hung from. It's shattered remains were there for quite a few weeks afterward.
I took some pictures of the engine house reflected in the tiles which made for a really 'artistic' set of photos :angel:
Installation art?..... there are a few places I would like to install some of it........ ::)

"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

stuey
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13 years ago

#26

Angel of the North = Man with a Plank.