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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
^ You can just google "grand central madison mosaics" to see the images behind the paywall.
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I was told that the overall concept was "animals and nature scenes from Long Island", which doesn't lend itself to controversy.
I think the challenge for the artists was that there was no way to understand the final space because it didn't physically exist yet. The murals are 200 feet from each other so there's no way to see two or more of them at once. She attempted different treatments of space. The turkey mosaic seems like it worked the best because of the particular way depth is depicted in that one.
The non-figurative mosaics don't seem to have worked as well. They would be very large in just about any other context but in the station they seem modest. The rain showers over rocks would have looked great just about anywhere else but it's going to be ignored in the context of this station.