Is this poor work for someone who is studying/has studied fine art? **title edited by MNHQ at OP's request**

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There is building works going on around Wolverhampton.

Massive changes to the local shopping centres with lots of closed down shops and noise.

There are attempts at brightening up the space with 'art'.

One shop space has been turned into a 'gallery' 'curated' by students/recent graduates from the local uni which isn't much more than decals and picture boards stuck to the walls.

There has been work done on murals in the wider open space with one taking one woman days to produce.

Days of climbing up and down a ladder surrounded by barriers, carefully painting a large mural with a huge blank space in rhe middle.

On and off, she has spent weeks working on this opus, painstakingly creating the city's motto against a backdrop of a hellish industrial backdrop.

Today I saw the finished, um, thing.

It turns out she's been working on panels elsewhere to stick on the blank bird/angel space in the middle of the mural.

Ladies and gentlemen!

Allow me to present Wolverhampton's one and only

FLAMING PISSED OFF TURKEY FROM HELL

Seriously?

WTAF?

To my eye, it honestly looks like a not particularly talented teenager had a go a scaling up a picture she saw in an art book.

Please tell me this wasn't paid for???

Ach to be fair it is a bit shit. The colours are vibrant and the impact is there, it's just a shame the wings are so chubby and shapeless. I'm guessing that must have been deliberate but I can't think why.

The picture isn't bad but it doesn't suit its surroundings.

I don't like it. But I can appreciate that all art is entirely down to the individual. My Mum loves modern art, loves it. I love the old masters and can't bring myself to credit Emin and Hirst with the same love as Titian and Botticelli. She thinks Botticelli is wishy-washy shite. Neither of us is right or wrong (though I suspect I'm more right than she is). It's preference, isn't it?

It's weird how art seems to bring out people's defensive sides. Like religion and politics, it probably shouldn't be discussed at parties.

I'm rather keen on the dear little fat turkey. Very cheery.

Student has done a fine job of improving a public space and lifting people's hearts, I would say.

I like it. It makes me smile.

The actual way its painted is beautiful, but the initial drawing isn't great.

Wolverhampton has enough bad press without one of our own moaning about it .

I don't mind the artwork , its someone's hard effort to Appreciate our city and regardless of whether I like it or not ,I appreciate their sentiment .

(Waves back to all the other wulfrunions on this thread )

Commenting on public art which was likely commissioned is not bullying. FFS.

I like it. The colours are beautiful.

I am still undecided....the colours are indeed beautiful and work well with the fiery phoenix idea. I like Tracey Emin and Turner though so my tastes are pretty eclectic!

From a distance it looks rather like a pair of pants with flaps on.

I have no thoughts one way or the other so this post is useless. I just wanted to commend you on making me LOL with the conclusion of 'FLAMING PISSED OFF TURKEY FROM HELL'

Art is subjective apparently. Or so I was told when I failed to see how a cigarette preserved forever hanging out of an ashtray with a lump of plasticine in it was art..apparently it is modern art and I am uncultured...

At least you don't have to put up with this crap all over the place. Whoever thought of this should be shot.

A gigantic yellow dog with no eyes or teeth taking a huge shit in the middle of a town? Inspired

No, it's a lambanana! And it's to make you think about genetically modified food, though tbh I've never heard anyone talk about that when they've seen it.

The worst 'art' I have ever seen, and probably the most expensive piece of tat ever..is our dear Angel of the North. Everytime I drive past it I see tourists taking photos in awe. It is just a huge pile of rust that looks more like a crashed plane than any angel I can think of. Best thing that ever happened to that was when there was a huge Sunderland shirt on it, was the only time I actually appreciated the thing, and that was only for the reactions of people about it

Hmm. Is lambanana double speak for enormous shitting dog? I cannot see anything else however hard I try

I for one would love to have flaming hairy bollocks to cheer the place up a bit. It must be fun to be an artist and have the council pay you to cock and balls the town centre.

What do you mean 'turkey'? I dont understand.

I quite like the Angel of the North. But WankingMonkey's post illustrates perfectly why it's nonsense to say that it's unkind or bullying to criticise any work of art.

It's a bit...Happy Shopper William Blake. But I can't bring myself to feel strongly about it positively or negatively.

I like the fat-winged fire bird.

Angel of the north looking like a crashed plane SO accurate!

It's not great, but they have put the Black Country smoking chimneys in the background- i.e out of the darkness of the industrial revolution comes light- innovation etc.
Does look like a chicken though

I like it.

Good art always divides opinion but I agree this thread is unkind and jessica123 there is absolutely nothing humorous about blandly stating "it's shit"

This is another mural in the same shopping centre.

I'll even stick my neck out here and say the magic words

"I could do that."