The Liverpool Cityscape

[Howie]

Artist Ben Johnson’s regard for people of Liverpool
May 23 2008
by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post



IT’S fair to say that for many, the Liverpool Cityscape had already become one of the city’s most cherished artworks before it was even finished.

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[Howie]

I popped into the Walker at lunch time to have a look. The Liverpool Cityscape is very impressive and well worth seeing.

[Kev]

Cheers Howie, I'll have a gander this week.

[Howie]

Cheers Howie, I'll have a gander this week.

I was in town again today so went in for a second look as I was passing. The way he has used the light and the absence of traffic and people gives it a sort of surreal quality which somehow seems to suit a representation of our city. I like it.

[GNASHER]

Taken,last May, from the roof of the new YMCA building in Leeds St

[GNASHER]

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[skgogosfan]

Sefton Park looks great under all that snow!

[Kev's pix,post 7]

Dave.

[Howie]

Cityscape masterpiece to get a human touch
Oct 10 2008
by Ben Schofield, Liverpool Daily Post



AT SIXTEEN feet wide and eight feet high, Ben Johnson?s Cityscape is a breath-taking depiction of the city. In intricate, painstaking detail the artist has captured Liverpool.

Save for one minor detail ? there?s no people in it. Until now.

Johnson and the Walker Art Gallery are inviting more than 400 artists to collaborate on their own People?s Panorama.

The artist wants Liverpudlians to come forward and recreate the view from the Mersey.

This weekend, the Walker will become ?the people?s studio? as they fill in a square each on a nine-metre canvas.

A photograph similar to Johnson?s Cityscape has been divided into hundreds of squares for the artists to copy.

Johnson told the Daily Post: ?This is just one part of a big project that was dreamt up by National Museums Liverpool and myself in trying to say that the image of the city is just the starting point.?

He described his Cityscape as ?over-clean?: ?There?s no grime or crime. But it?s got a soul to it. Below the clinical, there?s passion beneath and people are part of the bigger picture.?

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