I think this project is awesome, fantastic :handclap:
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I think this project is awesome, fantastic :handclap:
Liverpool Cityscape Thread
For photographs, could I encourage snappers to get out record Liverpool's city scape!
Now thats what I call art.
Brilliant work.:handclap:
The wider view: Liverpool City as you've never seen it
before in the most detailed landscape picture ever painted.
This is the most detailed landscape picture ever painted - and it has taken
artist Ben Johnson and his team 24,000 hours of painstaking work over
three years so far, with another eight weeks to go until it is finished.
Called Liverpool Cityscape 2008, it measures 16ft by 8ft, takes in five
square miles of the city from a vantage point 1,500ft above the River
Mersey, and is entirely spray-painted.
To make sure the landscape is as accurate as possible, Ben took 3,000
reference photographs and asked for input from architects, historians and
local people.
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Now that's dedication. I'd love to see that when its exhibited!
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Now that's dedication. I'd love to see that when its exhibited!
so i guess its open to all, I for one will be going :PDT_Piratz_26:Quote:
Ben, whose studio is in Hammersmith, West London, will take up residency at the city's Walker Art Gallery to finish the Liverpool Cityscape in front of a live audience from January 28 to March 7.
BBC Liverpool:
Artist Ben Johnson is completing his painting of Liverpool's Cityscape in front of a live audience.
He takes up his position as artist-in-residence at the Walker Art Gallery from 28 January to 7 March.
The internationally-renowned artist has been working on "The Liverpool Cityscape" for over three years.
The piece has been commissioned for the city's reign as European Capital of Culture and stands 8ft (2.4m) by 16ft (4.8m), his largest piece to date.
Permanent display
From a vantage point high above the River Mersey, the painting features over a thousand buildings including the two cathedral.
By using detailed architectural drawings the panorama includes the unfinished Museum of Liverpool on the waterfront and the Liverpool One development.
Visitors can watch the artist and his assistants as they add the finishing touches with hundreds of hand-mixed colours and spray-guns.
The finished painting will be on display at the Walker Art Gallery alongside Johnson's other world cities series, including images of Zurich, Hong Kong and Chicago.
The painting will eventually be on permanent display at the Museum of Liverpool when the building is completed in 2010.
Some up to date pictures here
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/...88ee6eb8_b.jpg
Excellent, Kev! :handclap:
Chris
wonderful
Stunning new view of city
Jan 28 2008
by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
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IT FEATURES more than 1,000 Liverpool buildings and is the most ambitious painting of Liverpool ever attempted.
Ben Johnson’s stunning Liverpool Cityscape arrived at the Walker art gallery today.
But the 8ft by 16ft painting is still not quite finished.
Now people can see the artist at work as he sets up his studio in the William Brown Street gallery and spends the next six weeks completing the epic work.
It will go on show from May 24 to November 2 at the gallery and eventually on permanent display at the new Museum of Liverpool.
Source: Liverpool Echo
very interesting, a lot of painstaking work etc.. but given the option i'd rather see a detailed pic of the city today as its up to date and more lifelike than any model as a city breathes and changes daily ie the pics from gregs dad, mscousedave etc... however i take my hat off to them for their labouriosly work and to those people who are paying them for it they must be very dedicated
Does this view class as a 'city scape'?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2148/...d23e6202_b.jpg
Full size here
Cathedral is favourite in Ben Johnson Cityscape painting
Feb 14 2008 by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
LIVERPOOL cathedral is the most loved building on an epic new painting of the city.
One in five visitors who took part in a Walker art gallery poll chose the cathedral as their favourite structure on artist Ben Johnson’s Liverpool Cityscape.
The cathedral won 20% of the vote, the Liver Building 17%, and St George’s hall 12%.
The Metropolitan Cathedral was fourth.
Ben Johnson said: “What’s been most evident from visitors’ responses is the enthusiasm and love felt for the city.”
Other favourite buildings ranged from St John’s beacon to the “streaky bacon” former White Star Line headquarters, the Pilgrim and Philharmonic pubs, the bombed out church, Lime Street station and even people’s homes.
Ben Johnson is finishing the painting in public in a specially-created studio at the William Brown Street gallery between now and March 7.
The painting was commissioned by National Museums Liverpool with Liverpool Culture Company and Phil and Alexis Redmond.
catherinejones@liverpoolecho.co.uk
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Last day at the Walkers for Ben Johnson`s work.White spaces are for the new museum and the ferry stage
Great stuff Gregs dad:PDT11
Fine photograph, gregs dad. Well done! :handclap:
Chris
bother. I was going to go there tomorrow to have a look.
any idea where it'll be moved to?
Artist unveils Liverpool's new cityscape
Apr 29 2008
by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post
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THIS is the first look at the completed Liverpool Cityscape. Artist Ben Johnson’s stunning 16ft x 8ft panorama of the city will go on display at the Walker art gallery, alongside his complex paintings of other world-renowned cities, from May 24.
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yes it does, good pic,
Artist Ben Johnson’s regard for people of Liverpool
May 23 2008
by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post
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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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I popped into the Walker at lunch time to have a look. The Liverpool Cityscape is very impressive and well worth seeing. :PDT11
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
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Taken,last May, from the roof of the new YMCA building in Leeds St
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Sefton Park looks great under all that snow!
[Kev's pix,post 7]
Dave.
Cityscape masterpiece to get a human touch
Oct 10 2008
by Ben Schofield, Liverpool Daily Post
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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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