Sol LeWitt Celebrated Underground

hey St. Ides... other than the turds you drop on gothamist, what do you create?

He creates methane gas, in un-selfconciously random concentric patterns, in 3 dimensions.

The colors, duke, the colors!

I like these; my favorite mosaic is the one of tree roots down in the subway with Joyce/carroll quotes (Bryant park? I think that's where that one is.)

Anyhow, my only complaint - the Majority of the city lives in the outer boroughs. Why can't we have nice stations too?

Wish I was there to see that.

This is nice, but reliable subway service would enhance my life exponentially more than glancing at a mural for 2 1/2 seconds a day.

Saw it this morning. It looks really nice!

this is a nice addition to a station that seems to be under constant construction.

Yes, we really need this. Who cares about function, anyway?

It's pleasant enough to look at but it hardly takes an artistic genius to patch together colored rectangles. Any elementary school kid could have done this.

Is an elementary school kid capable of thinking like Sol LeWitt? Show me a 10 year old that can interpret a concept like formalism and whose work operates outside the cultural cliches.

Oh please, all that pseudo-intellectual cocktail party chatter doesn't make this great art.

It's not pseudo intelligent. neither is lewitt.

lewitt challenged people to think about the works they are observing, and stepped across many formal boundries, artistic and otherwise. Totally changed my outlook on chairs.

Your uninformed "Joe Lunchpail" commentary and intellectual stance is one of society's major stumbling blocks, and it screams "I have no social value other than to criticise everything I don't understand, especially when I haven't put more than 1.2 seconds thought into what it is i'm looking at." I bet you never figured out that rubiks cube either, I mean who has time to read up on 3-D spatial transformation algorithms.

My god you are frustrating, but let me put this in terms that you might appreciate. The amount of mathematical and geometric preparation it takes to create a composition like this would boggle you mind. The fact that is looks like it can be easily done is a testament to the craft of Sol Lewitt.

Take a good look and tell me if you see any of the same colored blocks touching each other.

Radtard?

Is that a contraction of Radical Retard?

2+2=duh you win!

Agree to disagree and get over yourself. Fuck, you're like my mom screeching "I COULD'VE MADE THAT" when I take her to museums.

Who cares if an elementary school kid could have done it? Many will feel that having a major American artist's work represented for all to enjoy in the NYC subway system is one of the reasons that we live here.

Such a fool Ides. It never stops, does it?

That is, the LeWiit one is colourful and cheery, but hardly a masterpiece.

Many will feel that having a major American artist's work represented for all to enjoy in the NYC subway system is one of the reasons that we live here.

Only if most people realise it's by a "major American artist", if there's no name plate, or if they haven't read an article associated with it, how're they supposed to know it's a piece done by a famous artist?

I'm with Ides to a degree, I've seen more artistically skilled mosaic murals in the Subway (this one in Times Square Station comes to mind: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mey/2800381681/). This is colourful and cheery, but it's hardly a masterpiece.

Okay, make a drawing of what your mural would look like and send it to Gothamist. They can post it and we can all see what real talent looks like. That's operating on the assumption that you, as an adult, have more talent than an elementary school kid.

I'm sure my mother still has some of my kindergarten finger paintings that would be just as good. In any case, what does that have to do with the inherent value, or lack thereof, of this particular piece, which by the way, I never said was bad, only that it is hardly a bravura display of artistic talent.

Comparing this artist to let's say a real artist like Vermeer, for example, is like comparing Beethoven's 9th Symphony to somebody playing the bongos.

Typical response from an illiterate and uncultivated asshole. Short response: no they couldn't. Even shorter response: fuck off.

Maybe you should have a look at some Rembrandts or Michaelangelos and tell me if this pre-school arts and crafts stuff is anywhere near the same caliber.

typical response from an asshole artist.

Nice!

I love the mosaics in the subway.