The art at the Denver International Airport

[sweetvelocity]

I wanted to post these pictures after watching a show about bunkers being built under the DIA. The show was mostly about the bunkers, but I found the painting in the airport way more fascinating. There are lots of hidden messages in the paintings.













Here is a sculpture that is pretty creepy.


I love horses, but if I seen this while driving to my flight I would not feel like getting on the plane

[PanamaGuy]

Thats some weird stuff.

[lycanox]

Obviously a critique of mankind revolt against itself and nature with a message of hope at the end.

If you like weird art, a local university here has a painting depicting Daisy duck in hell hanging around in the hall.

[weederbro]

If you go to 'Sinister Sites' you can get more info and interpretations of the paintings.

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=58Sites'

[sweetvelocity]

Okay I think I have found all of the images I wanted to find. Thank you for the name of that site weederbro. I got a couple of good photos off that site. The horse is totally freaking creepy. I cannot imagine who in their right mind would think that is calming or inviting enough for an airport entrance!

[ecosikz]

hey, that horse looks calming and inviting.

[weederbro]

When you check out Denver Airport, Astana, The Rockerfeller Centre, The Georgia Guidstones and the Supreme Court in Jerusalem etc, do you think that they are actually telling us what is going to happen in the future?

[sweetvelocity]

The artist that painted these pictures says these paintings are about peace. Maybe in his own mind, but to me they are a little creepy for an airport, but I can appreciate the art as art. I do enjoy dissecting, but ultimately everything I gather from the works are subject to my own subjective perception. No I do not think they are foretelling the future, but it is odd how people related the works to destruction versus what the artist was actually trying to convey, Peace.

[AnneOminous]

Little known fact... but that horse is a killer.

Hard to imagine, but it actually killed the feller who formed it.





Nicknamed “Blucifer” and “DIAblo,” The Mustang is a 32-foot-tall, neon blue sculpture of a raging steed that is currently located on a hill south of the airport along Pena Boulevard. It’s the first thing travelers see after the many miles of near empty prairie driving out to the airport, and the last thing new arrivals will witness before heading to the city.


•1992. The DIA art committee granted New Mexican artist Luis Jiminez a $300,000 commission to create the sculpture, three years before the airport would finally open. Paid $165,000 upfront .

•Jiminez misses the original 1994 deadline for the work. A cornea transplant he’d gotten twenty years before had begun to deteriorate, and some people speculated that the piece would never be completed

•City grants Jiminez several extent ions, but the dates were never met with completion.

•2003. The city files a lawsuit against Jimenez for the $165,000 it had paid up front, but agreed to drop the suit if the sculpture was finished by the end of the year. Sculpture not completed.

•June 13, 2006. Jiminez was by himself in his studio rushing to finish the nearly-completed Mustang. He was reportedly using a rope to hoist a section of the sculpture into place so it could be welded. The hoist broke and the piece fell on the 66-year-old, pinning him to the ground and slicing an artery in his leg. Jiminez died on his studio floor.

[Stabby Joe]

An airport? Most usually just try and build to basic structure in an abstract manner in order to be more visually appealing but some of this art is strange.

It has concepts and themes but the painting style is of poor qaulity in my opinion.

[New Wine]

Interesting that it is a white horse.

[Mezurashi]

Originally Posted by New Wine

Interesting that it is a white horse.

look again, it is anything But white ...

Originally Posted by Stabby Joe

It has concepts and themes but the painting style is of poor qaulity in my opinion.

the 'style' is one that should be familiar to people who are into art created since 1984.

I dunno if this weird style of representation (sort of like a cross between 1950's era US Advertising and USSR Propaganda) will become known as a 'late 20th century' thing but I couldn't help but notice when I was in art school that more and more people were choosing this kind of 'pastel' representational form for themselves.

I personally blame it on the laziness of the artists of today - which is a gripe of the 'loss' of 'old fashioned' methods of art. back when Picasso was singlehandedly creating the Cubist Format people knew him as a Great Artist of Potential who chose to go on an entirely new and unfamiliar path with his talent. but BEFORE Picasso worked in Cubist Format he was a Representational Artist par excellence - his early works are Da Vinci level photo realistic.

today's so-called abstract artists can do interesting things with colour and shape, but hardly any of them could sit down and draw a bowl of grapes that looked like a bowl of grapes to save their lives.

the modern artists never bothered to 'perfect' their techniques, they never worked to become Representational Artists before taking their talent onto the new path ... they just decided to pull a Jackson Pollock and throw paint at canvas ...

this is why truly representational art has become the realm of Computer Graphics in the modern era - to do it by hand is Just Too Damn Much Work.

and always remember we live in the Paradigm of immediate gratification.

[Defiant Noquisi]

Uhm, pardon me but I see nothing "sinister" in "Blucifer" considering that Denver's NFL team is the Broncos and one of the main colors is blue. That horse is probably a better player than what I've seen since old Horsetooth left.

[JenaS62]

Wow - I'm glad I came back to this thread and looked at the link provided by Weederbro (thanks Weederbro). That is some creepy shit. And yes it does appear to be a foretelling of things to come. I need to get a gas mask.

[BLOODLINES]

Old new's...

[Post-Apocalypse]

The Elite are taunting us with what will befall us while they are safe in their bunkers.

What the artist says is a cover story. The facts of who commisioned the art and how he was to paint it is of course off the record. I am sure he can't talk about it. Much the same as the banker who handled the payments for the Georgia Guide stones.

[jeffweeder]

Originally Posted by Post-Apocalypse

The Elite are taunting us with what will befall us while they are safe in their bunkers.
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They may think that they are safe, but they dont forsee the second coming of justice.

[sweetvelocity]

Originally Posted by jeffweeder

They may think that they are safe, but they dont forsee the second coming of justice.

Let them go hide in their bunkers. I hope they have made more than one way out because it sure would suck to get stuck down there by a bunch of angry non-elites with large amounts of TNT.

[lycanox]

I have one, its where I store my Zombie defense kit. And garlic against vampire attacks.

But seriously.
The rise and fall of evil is an theme that has always fascinated humans.
So it is not surprised that art about it shows up here and there.

[sweetvelocity]

Just an update. A statue of Anubus is to join Blucifer at the gates of the DIA.
Anubus is the Egyptian God of Death and Mummification.

Just thought it was interesting addition.