Those
murals will be painted on the concrete piers that hold up the Girard
Avenue Bridge - one on the east bank of the Schuylkill, the other on the
west, both facing the water. Given the program's penchant for depicting
the obvious, it should surprise no one that the theme is the city's
rowing history, and that the imagery makes a big head-tilt to
Philadelphia's most famous painter of rowers, Thomas Eakins. Anyone who
walks, jogs, roller-blades, or bikes along the lush river trails will
encounter the 100-foot-long paintings by Jon Laidacker, one of the
program's regulars.
Whether you love murals or, like me, had your fill long ago, their incursion into Philadelphia's beloved beauty spot should be a call to attention.
While the Schuylkill greenways may not be on the same level as,
say, the Grand Canyon wilderness - and the murals may not be the
equivalent of painting a cliff wall - these spaces serve as
Philadelphia's front door to the natural world. The park is where we go
to escape the constant static of our frenetic urban lives, to forget our
devices and lose ourselves amid the trees. Do we really need more
manufactured images?Whether you love murals or, like me, had your fill long ago, their incursion into Philadelphia's beloved beauty spot should be a call to attention.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/home/20140321_Changing_Skyline__Mural_Arts_Program_s_entry_into_Fairmount_Park_crosses_boundaries.html#kqOLf7MLfUPrMHoh.99
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murals will be painted on the concrete piers that hold up the Girard
Avenue Bridge - one on the east bank of the Schuylkill, the other on the
west, both facing the water. Given the program's penchant for depicting
the obvious, it should surprise no one that the theme is the city's
rowing history, and that the imagery makes a big head-tilt to
Philadelphia's most famous painter of rowers, Thomas Eakins. Anyone who
walks, jogs, roller-blades, or bikes along the lush river trails will
encounter the 100-foot-long paintings by Jon Laidacker, one of the
program's regulars.
Whether you love murals or, like me, had your fill long ago, their incursion into Philadelphia's beloved beauty spot should be a call to attention.
While the Schuylkill greenways may not be on the same level as,
say, the Grand Canyon wilderness - and the murals may not be the
equivalent of painting a cliff wall - these spaces serve as
Philadelphia's front door to the natural world. The park is where we go
to escape the constant static of our frenetic urban lives, to forget our
devices and lose ourselves amid the trees. Do we really need more
manufactured images?Whether you love murals or, like me, had your fill long ago, their incursion into Philadelphia's beloved beauty spot should be a call to attention.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/home/20140321_Changing_Skyline__Mural_Arts_Program_s_entry_into_Fairmount_Park_crosses_boundaries.html#kqOLf7MLfUPrMHoh.99
Those murals will be painted on the concrete piers that hold up the Girard Avenue Bridge - one on the east bank of the Schuylkill, the other on the west, both facing the water. Given the program's penchant for depicting the obvious, it should surprise no one that the theme is the city's rowing history, and that the imagery makes a big head-tilt to Philadelphia's most famous painter of rowers, Thomas Eakins. Anyone who walks, jogs, roller-blades, or bikes along the lush river trails will encounter the 100-foot-long paintings by Jon Laidacker, one of the program's regulars.While the Schuylkill greenways may not be on the same level as, say, the Grand Canyon wilderness - and the murals may not be the equivalent of painting a cliff wall - these spaces serve as Philadelphia's front door to the natural world. The park is where we go to escape the constant static of our frenetic urban lives, to forget our devices and lose ourselves amid the trees. Do we really need more manufactured images?
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