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.
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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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