March 3, 2005: History of the Subway
A couple of weeks ago I went down to visit Karen at her school. Her third grade class had just finished a six month study of the NYC subway. It was a great social studies project- she's now a veritable font of subway information. Anyway, to celebrate the end of the study, the kids made a big book of watercolors celebrating the creation of the subway system- some of the pages were just amazing. I love the different shades of color blending into each other. [Related: visitors often ask questions about the street art project I'm running on Flickr and Typepad. As I've been pursuing the project for the last six months, I've done a lot of thinking about what street art is, and what differentiates it from graffiti and other stuff you see on the street. Today I'm posting the first in a series of diagrams that attempt to make my ideas about street art clear.]
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These pictures are disturbing and inspiring at the same time. These children are Cassandra-like canaries of the subway underground - they see things we no longer do. Looking at it through their eyes, the MTA work environment looks like outtakes from the mine scene in Temple of Doom or Fraggle Rock gone dark. And the first picture! Death and his gigantic dark horse, prowling the streets for their next catch! The horror...
fantastic paintings -- and what a terrific curriculum.
Thank you for taking pictures of these. I would love to start a kid art blog.
I have to second what Matte elegantly wrote. That first one looks like a horse pulling some sort of old fashioned hearse/body wagon. But the technique in the last one is beautiful.
These kids are so stupid. They totally forgot Cusack's trenchcoat.
these pictures are cool and funny
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