[Hipster Duck]

Was it that late? I remember the horrendous Eaton Centre mural + tiles from the early 90s.

Forget about touching the clean lines of Museum, Queen is the saddest looking hack job of a station and somebody needs to come in there and remove all that egregious tacked-on shit immediately.

With Museum, it's almost as if we're completing the late 80s/early 90s station retrofit program where we replaced all the exuberance of the modernist stations with hokey, carnivalesque cheese.

 

[LowPolygon]

Queen is the saddest looking hack job of a station and somebody needs to come in there and remove all that egregious tacked-on shit immediately.

uh, you mean this?

 

[299 bloor call control.]

I don't mind the murals, more the completely out of place f-up that is the lettering used for "Queen"

 

[junctionist]

Those murals are neither very interesting nor ugly, but the blue and red stripes on the ceiling are great.

 

[adma]

The mural(s) and stripes actually date from about 1980--thus, they're the earliest 1954-line "renos", and they in fact kept the original Vitrolite.

It was sometime around 1996/97/98 that the hack-job tile/lettering replacement took place. Which compromised both the 1954 and the 1980 state of affairs...

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

That mural always makes me that that Mr. Scottsman there (Eaton? Ryseron? Who?) has brains for face. Doesn't his face look like brains?

Any art historians here who can explain exactly what style that mural was done in? (Perhaps the Ineptist Transit School?)

 

[LowPolygon]

That mural always makes me that that Mr. Scottsman there (Eaton? Ryseron? Who?) has brains for face. Doesn't his face look like brains?

Any art historians here who can explain exactly what style that mural was done in? (Perhaps the Ineptist Transit School?)

Those enameled panels are the work of John Boyle, and the uber-Scot is William Lyon Mckenzie (woman is Nellie McClung). Boyle was based in London Ontario, and was a founding member of the 'highly regarded' Nihilist Spasm Band. He was mildly successful as a painter in the 70's and 80's. An unfortunate characteristic of his painting is an almost complete inability to paint human flesh. His faces in particular often look as if they are suffering from a rather advanced dermatological distress, alternately--you're right--they often look like they are modeled out of headcheese.

here's one of Bob Dylan and er, Sir Wilfred Laurier....