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???

Wolverhampton isn't in the blank country though

It certainly isn't now, they've had the decorators in!

Wolverhampton likes to claim it's in the Black Country but it's not. It's generally considered to be Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall boroughs but Wolvo has tried in the last 30 years or so to get in on the action. But it doesn't fool this Sedgley wench

I will add though that I love Wolverhampton very much and hate all this sniping at it. It's bad enough when outsiders do it!

Looks rather rude (but maybe it's just me)

I bet council didnt pay them at all tbh im a fine art graduate and get asked alot to do murals etc always for free... quite an insult really!

I'd rather be a dingle than a cunt.

That's all I have to say about that.

As I mentioned Parisienne, I'm from sedgley so I do realise that Wolvo and Dudley border each other!

Traditionally the Black Country was considered to be where the coal seam was as the surface ie * n*ot Wolverhampton.. This was compounded by the fact that Wolverhampton and Dudley were even in different counties. It's only on the last 30 years and my certain memory, that Wolverhampton council has claimed Black Country status.I remember the outrage when those signs went at the border!

However let's not fall out, I love the whole area! Let's al bs Black Country

Until 1974, Wolverhampton was in Staffordshire.

Wolverhampton is now in the county of West Midlands.

The 'Black Country', as BitOutOfPractice states, is traditionally the parts of the area where the 30 foot coal seam comes to the surface.

Not Wolves, although it's now lumped in with the rest of the West Midlands as 'Birmingham and the Black Country'.

It was on the front page of the express and star! A 50 year old artist painted it. I'm presuming (too much) that she has some experience but not sure how much

Here you go

Sorry

The lower part of the wings look too rounded for a Phoenix, and the body needs more definition (should perhaps be some shading on the wings to make them less two-dimensional?).

However I am really appalled by the mean-spiritedness of this post and I hope the artist never reads it. There's a big difference between constructive and sneering criticism.

The typography and banner, and the colours and vibrancy are excellent.

(And I speak as someone with a degree in design and illustration!)

I think it's gorgeous!!

it's now lumped in with the rest of the West Midlands as 'Birmingham and the Black Country'.

Not in this house it's not! I am in exile in the south east and must have to tell someone I'm not a brummy at least once a week

Not that bad. Good colour. Weird fat looking bird though. More of a butterfly.

There's not much wrong with concept or colour, it's the execution that I think is wrong.

Thanks TiggyD and everyone else who's commented.

You sound horrible!

BitOutOfPractice The Black Country Society lumps Wolverhampton into the Black Country linguistically and culturally (if not geologically). My dad is from Stourbridge - technically not Black Country too but he's certainly got the accent.

I wonder if the artist used the phoenix because the shopping centre manager had previously described the upgrading of the shopping centre as a phoenix rising from the flames?

OP
It is truly awful. Awful.

The colours make me want to scream. The "Fine Art" qualification this person received must have come from FE college. It could not have come from a proper art school.

...an FE college.

@throwingpebbles

Are you the "artist"?