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A Hand Painted Blog of Views of the Cathedral of Learning

February 20, 2010 Lindsay



A Hand Painted Blog of Views of the Cathedral of Learning, originally uploaded by IheartPGH.

This series of painting is "One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning, 1997-1999"

One of the first things I noticed when I arrived at Pitt’s Alumni Hall today was this wall of paintings – each with very recognizable locations from or near Oakland. I spent some time looking at the dates below each canvas – dates are in order but the year varies between 1998 and 1999.

These scenes are painted but from just a few steps back they look like photographs of the neighborhood. What I didn’t realize until I read the description is that each of these is a different view of the Cathedral of Learning.

As I was sitting here waiting to hear the winners on this round of the film factory contest and thinking about the book in my bag "Crush It" by Gary Vaynerchuck – which is about using social media to tell the story about something you are passionate about. I was just wondering what blogs were out there for people who are passionate about filmmaking. I was thinking of how I want to profile more blogs about very specific topics – I am fascinated by people who are using blogs to document specific things – check out blogs like "cake wrecks" or Scanwiches.

Before I opened my book to get back to reading, I wandered over to read about these little paintings – coincedental timing that I stumbled upon a hand painted verson of what would also make a great blog about views of the Cathedral of Learning.

Each of these was painted by Felix de la Concha, a spanish artist who came to Pittsburgh to visit his girl friend who was studying at Pitt. He started the paintings but didn’t have a visa to stay in the US for a whole year so he completed the series over a couple of years.

The series was origonally displayed at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1999.

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Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh since 2005. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon.

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  1. The Cathedral Map: I « Eric Lidji says:
    December 26, 2010 at 4:39 PM

    […] this idea came about seven years ago, when I was a student at the Pitt. I saw an exhibit called “One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning, 1997-1999” in Alumni Hall by a painter named Felix de la Concha. He spent two years in Pittsburgh and […]

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