Tube art
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Gloucester Road tube station has gone all hippy on us. One whole wall, stretching the full length of a platform, has been painted up in psychedelic multi-coloured circles and lit from below. It’s the work of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, and all quite impressive, particularly as your train sweeps in alongside it.
Even the name is hippy: Peace and Love.
What I don’t get, though, is the farty promo on the Underground site, which explains how ‘this monumental commission … creates a visual dialogue with both the architecture and the constant movement of trains and travellers within … The work, like the station, has its own rhythm. The images run across the arches, creating their own momentum and mirroring the movement of the passengers and the trains inside the station’.
What is a visual dialogue? How can it have a momentum that mirrors the movement of the largely static passengers, standing there slack-jawed as they wait for a train?
‘The vibrant colour and exuberant shapes within the work keep the viewer
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