Comments on: Rockford Park District selects Colorado artist to paint Nicholas Conservatory mural http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/01/18/rockford-park-district-selects-colorado-artist-to-paint-nicholas-conservatory-mural/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:20:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: brian http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/01/18/rockford-park-district-selects-colorado-artist-to-paint-nicholas-conservatory-mural/comment-page-1/#comment-2318 brian Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:28:16 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=28511#comment-2318 Well it doesn't surprise me that someone from our town didn't get the job.Like every other important event in rockford it goes to someone or some construction company from out of town.When the butt heads in city council including the mayor says we support the city.They forget to add in they support everyone Else's city accept the one they represent.So why would the people running the park district be any different? Well it doesn’t surprise me that someone from our town didn’t get the job.Like every other important event in rockford it goes to someone or some construction company from out of town.When the butt heads in city council including the mayor says we support the city.They forget to add in they support everyone Else’s city accept the one they represent.So why would the people running the park district be any different?

]]> By: Andrea http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/01/18/rockford-park-district-selects-colorado-artist-to-paint-nicholas-conservatory-mural/comment-page-1/#comment-2002 Andrea Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:13:27 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=28511#comment-2002 I'm going to venture to say that this artist isn't even all that good. He does murals which, while technically that's what this project called for, I know personally of much better suited artists. This guy has pictures of cheezy car murals and McDonald's crap on his website, and that's what we'll get in this project, more or less (seriously- this guy's style is so academic and old-fashioned, and not in any classic sense. Like poor 70's realism. Drab and boring.). Nothing of style, nothing that will stand out or make a mark. Look at his Belivdere mural - it's just more of the same. There are genuinely original artists working in and around the Rockford area, and one's of much more accomplished ability. The RPD should be chastised for this - spending money on an artist who isn't from the region when plenty of local artists need the work - and spending money on an artist who isn't even very good. If he was brilliant, I'd consider importing the work, but he's not. They went with the safe bet, that is all. They went with the man with experience, the guy who's done a lot of murals in a lot of towns, blah blah blah. They didn't go with ability. I know of artists from Rockford who are half this guy's age who can paint twice as good, but they didn't get this commission because they haven't been painting cheezy-ass murals for decades. Way to go Rockford Park District! More filthy flotsam tossed into the sea of mediocrity. And you wonder why your children can't wait to leave you... I’m going to venture to say that this artist isn’t even all that good. He does murals which, while technically that’s what this project called for, I know personally of much better suited artists. This guy has pictures of cheezy car murals and McDonald’s crap on his website, and that’s what we’ll get in this project, more or less (seriously- this guy’s style is so academic and old-fashioned, and not in any classic sense. Like poor 70’s realism. Drab and boring.). Nothing of style, nothing that will stand out or make a mark. Look at his Belivdere mural – it’s just more of the same.
There are genuinely original artists working in and around the Rockford area, and one’s of much more accomplished ability. The RPD should be chastised for this – spending money on an artist who isn’t from the region when plenty of local artists need the work – and spending money on an artist who isn’t even very good. If he was brilliant, I’d consider importing the work, but he’s not.

They went with the safe bet, that is all. They went with the man with experience, the guy who’s done a lot of murals in a lot of towns, blah blah blah. They didn’t go with ability. I know of artists from Rockford who are half this guy’s age who can paint twice as good, but they didn’t get this commission because they haven’t been painting cheezy-ass murals for decades.
Way to go Rockford Park District! More filthy flotsam tossed into the sea of mediocrity. And you wonder why your children can’t wait to leave you…

]]> By: Rob http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/01/18/rockford-park-district-selects-colorado-artist-to-paint-nicholas-conservatory-mural/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 Rob Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:25:05 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=28511#comment-1959 How is it that Rockford's leaders continue to seemingly botch everything they touch? I am sure this artist is great, but this is ILLINOIS, Rockford, Illinois, and as such the artist should have been FROM HERE. Here is the RPD putting forth specific criteria then not making the chosen artist meet that criteria. More deceit? It bothers me that the RPD and other entities continue to take credit for anything positive in this community when we know that without the true generosity of people the Nicholson family NOTHING of this magnitude would have ever taken shape here. And Ms. Pigatti Williamson, take your wide net comments and other nonsense and shelve it. The way our leaders try to justify these decisions is ridiculous. The RPD knows it should have chosen one of the many MORE THAN QUALIFIED artists from this area or from Illinois to do this important, lasting, historical ROCKFORD ILLINOIS project... Truly disappointing. I wish this could be changed.... How is it that Rockford’s leaders continue to seemingly botch everything they touch? I am sure this artist is great, but this is ILLINOIS, Rockford, Illinois, and as such the artist should have been FROM HERE. Here is the RPD putting forth specific criteria then not making the chosen artist meet that criteria. More deceit? It bothers me that the RPD and other entities continue to take credit for anything positive in this community when we know that without the true generosity of people the Nicholson family NOTHING of this magnitude would have ever taken shape here. And Ms. Pigatti Williamson, take your wide net comments and other nonsense and shelve it. The way our leaders try to justify these decisions is ridiculous. The RPD knows it should have chosen one of the many MORE THAN QUALIFIED artists from this area or from Illinois to do this important, lasting, historical ROCKFORD ILLINOIS project… Truly disappointing. I wish this could be changed….

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