When your out and about, in a different country or just travelling through your daily routine there is a lot of information to take in along the way. But if we stoped and took a chance to look there is so much more out there.
I find it a shame that some art can get trapped and only be avaliable to certain people for example here are some pictures from the New York City subway where above ground travelers wouldnt get the chance to veiw the work.
I find it a shame that some art can get trapped and only be avaliable to certain people for example here are some pictures from the New York City subway where above ground travelers wouldnt get the chance to veiw the work.I find this work quite futuristic and abstract. I like the use of sharp yellow lines creating squares and corners and cutting inbetween the circular and cylinder shapes.
The wall was a huge mosaic and the yellow waves crawling up the wall remind me of chinease art and links in with the practical work im producing now.
From researching into subway art i came across the Moscow underground and made me re-think about exposing this kind of art in other places. This underground is beautiful and the unexpected feeling of going down and seeing such an environment is partly what makes this underground unforgettable.
Nikolay Shumakov is the cheif architect for the Moscow underground. He has been an architect for over 40 years and most of his career he has commited to this project. In the 1930's the idea of building places underground was imerging and one of the Soviet Unions main priorities was to make them exquisit, and they did just this through the means of architecture.
Several hundered people were working on the subways 24 hours a day and makes you apreciate that it wasnt knocked together, it is actually a complete work of art.
