The Paintings on Lombard Street
One of the cafes that I go to regularly is located on the corner of Lombard Street and Columbus Avenue, right near where a majority of tourist traffic is located. On the wall outside of this café, right there on Lombard Street, there are two paintings. On a regular basis, I see tourists stopping to eye these paintings, because one of them depicts nudity. No, you can’t really see anything. This isn’t porn, it’s just a painting. And yet, people stop in shock at the fact that this is on one of our city’s walls.
The other painting is the one that I really love. It’s a fairly simple painting, depicting two people in black and white set against a background of vivid color. It’s a gorgeous, magical painting. But it’s often overlooked because of the shock value of the other painting. What’s really funny is that you can probably see much more shocking things on the streets all around San Francisco. We’re not exactly a cover-up-and-be-shy kind of city. But the people who are walking up to the curvy part of Lombard Street must not know this yet.
<
December 14th, 2008 at 10:27 am
this draw is so beatiful an all combination of the colors