154/365: What's Wrong With Stan?

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Stan Musial is considered the greatest player in the history of St. Louis Cardinals baseball. There is a monumental statue of him on the west side of Busch Stadium. I think it's very unflattering. The back and shoulders are huge, out of proportion, a Frankenstein look. Well, maybe poetic license is allowed to show his strength. But the face is so misshapen (notice how the jaw is way off center), the expression is so dead and it doesn't look much like him, anyway. The team could have done better.

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120/365: Center Field

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The view from Clark Avenue, looking into the center field entrance to Busch Stadium and the grandstands beyond. Lots of symbols and icons. I wonder what, if anything, the public absorbs from them.

Territorial warfare continues today on St. Louis Daily Photo.

94:365: Color Field

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Blocks of color on a cloudless day at the baseball stadium. Not as simple as color field painting but you get the idea. Some of that style of art can be intellectual but occasionally the high concept gets to be a bit much. I once heard Ellsworth Kelly give a talk with Richard Serra at the opening of the Pulitzer Foundation museum here. He insisted that he could tell within 1/16th of an inch (25 mm) if his commissioned painting for the museum was hung correctly. Serra laughed at him.

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