Boston in Art

[Charlie_mta]

I found this photo of a painting being done back in the early 1990s of the (now demolished) Causeway Street Green Line elevated at North Station. Recently I worked on restoring it. I don't know who the artist of the original was. Here is the original painting on an easel taken in a photo in the 1990s:

Here is the image restored by me using MS Paint:

 

[Charlie_mta]

I was doing some drawings using MS Paint and MS Photos tonight and came up with this unexpectedly Boston-like image, an abstract take on an aerial view of Boston. That's me, lover of abstract art and surrealistic poems.

 

[DZH22]

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/rbtx94
I know I have posted this next one before but it's really an insane take on our city and catches my eye every time it pops up in a search.

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[DZH22]

This one makes me laugh with how silly and ridiculous it is.

Kaiju Battle in Boston by Adam Ozella, on Flickr

 

[Blackbird]

Neo-dada at its best!

 

[stick n move]

I know I have posted this next one before but it's really an insane take on our city and catches my eye every time it pops up in a search.

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I wish we had a cable stay cross the harbor between southie and eastie that way we could have pedestrian/bike access, and then logan was further out in the harbor or something.

 

[Arenacale]

This one makes me laugh with how silly and ridiculous it is.

Kaiju Battle in Boston by Adam Ozella, on Flickr

Is Kaiju Big Battel still a thing? I remember seeing some articles about it back in college. Actually started with some SMFA students.

 

[Charlie_mta]

Doodling around with MS Paint and MS Photo, and came up with this psychedelicized map of Boston. Fun stuff.

 

[DZH22]

Boston Landmark skyline water globe snow globe 3.5 inches sliver color

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[DZH22]

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Just a point of interest, I happened to stumble across the original source photo.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/DEE78Y/downtown-aerial-evening-boston-massachusetts-usa-DEE78Y.jpg

 

[DZH22]

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[Arenacale]

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I want this for every Boston building now.

 

[DZH22]

Acorn head at Tufts

IMG_7717 by David Z, on Flickr

IMG_7718 by David Z, on Flickr

 

[DZH22]

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[bigpicture7]

Below is an original. Just messing around with some excessive photo editing/digital filters. I was inspired by the skyline's reflections on the ice in the Charles during the clear days of this past weekend (1/23):
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[DZH22]

Less art and more a dystopian cannonball that the city dodged half a century ago. The infamous Route 695.

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[Charlie_mta]

The Inner Belt and SW Expressway would have totally hosed Roxbury. I can only imagine the health effects alone, let alone all the other impacts including increased asthma among children, the noise, the pollution, the severing of neighborhoods. Something like this would never be built in Brookline or Belmont, but Roxbury was open to be pillaged. Thank God the people fought back.

 

[Charlie_mta]

Speaking of the Inner Belt, here are some renderings of the last official proposal, before the entire project was finally cancelled by Governor Sargent in 1970. The renders make the expressway appear very artful and neighborhood friendly, with crowds of people milling about the expressways environs. Yeah....right.

 

[TallIsGood]

The Inner Belt and SW Expressway would have totally hosed Roxbury. I can only imagine the health effects alone, let alone all the other impacts including increased asthma among children, the noise, the pollution, the severing of neighborhoods. Something like this would never be built in Brookline or Belmont, but Roxbury was open to be pillaged. Thank God the people fought back.

The Pike was built through Newton.

 

[The EGE]

1908 postcard of Adams Square station: