Here we go again, with some egotistical asshole disfiguring the world with his “art”:
Vincent Van Gogh loved the light in Provence so much that he moved to the southern French city of Arles in 1888 for one of the key years of his short life. So how fitting that a new building, which dazzlingly reflects that light, has made Arles a major centre of contemporary art. Called Luma, it is designed by Frank Gehry, famous for his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, who took inspiration from Van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night.
Given that Bilbao’s Guggenheim looks like a giant burst carbuncle, we all know where this one’s going:
Even worse than this, of course, is that a group of Bilbao’s city “planners” looked at the drawings and model of this disgusting excresence and said (in Spanish): “Oh wow! This is just what we need to make our city look more artistic!” and signed off on the hideous thing.
But returning to our story, here’s Arles, as seen by Van Gogh:
And this maniac’s vision for Arles?
And it’s quite a sight: a ten-storey tower made of 11,000 twisted stainless steel panels, glass and concrete dominating a huge £150 million ‘creative campus’ on the site of a former railway yard.
They should have kept the railway yard. From the genius himself:
Gehry says his Luma design was influenced not only by Van Gogh’s The Starry Night but by Arles’ Unesco-listed Roman heritage as well.
Yeah, nothing says “Roman” like twisted steel and glass.
If this distorted dildo had been around in Van Gogh’s time, we’d at least have one good reason why he cut his ear off. In fact, he could have cut his eyes out, just to avoid looking at it.
And if Starry Night makes you think of things like this, you need a psychiatrist more than Vincent ever did.
