Art Everywhere
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Mon 21 Jul 2014 - Sun 31 Aug 2014
Back for a second year of pop-up art, the
project is hogging 30,000 poster sites and billboards for 6 weeks this summer.
Innocent Drinks co-founder Richard Reed, supported by the charity Art Fund, wants to "flood the streets of The UK" with great art reproductions.
Experts selected an initial 75 pieces and 38,000 Facebook users voted them down to a final 25. It's an eclectic outcome, ranging from a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I to a Grayson Perry tapestry.
My Parents by David Hockney was the outright favourite.
And when the nation curates, who am I to argue? For I am now reacquainted twice daily with a personal favourite; Marc Quinn's Self (2006), a self portrait made from nine pints of the artist's frozen blood.
How I've chortled when well-buttered punters emerge from the boozer opposite, behold its grisly visage, and commence retching. Good times.
Among the other works exhibited are:
Sculptor Anthony Gormley has even created Feeling Material, a digital artwork, exclusively for . It is available as a free download and limited edition etching.
Last year's debut was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it affair that fell flat on its 1.8 x 1.2m face.
Things have changed. Art Fund estimates that this year 90% of the UK population will pass by one of the exhibits. Who knows? It might spur some into seeing the originals.
If David Hockney's parents turn you on you'll find them, along with the shortlisted pieces by Henry Moore and Michael Andrews, at Tate Britain.
The National Portrait Gallery is home to Marc Quinn's blood-filled bonce, and Ruby Loftus resides at the Imperial War Museum.
? Not quite, but giving omnipresence a damn good try.
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