OG&E Tower

[Rover]

Chamber Junta. Maybe new-urbanista rebels. We have a real warfare going on here. LOL.

[catcherinthewry]

Stage Center has always been hated by the chamber junta who resent that NYC money came in and overpowered them.

I can't blame them.

[MustangGT]

I can't blame them.

Neither do a great many others.

[Spartan]

Chamber Junta. Maybe new-urbanista rebels. We have a real warfare going on here. LOL.

Chamber junta is an expression that's been in use for a few years in the local political arena

[betts]

I just think the Stage Center was polarizing. Some people loved it, some hated it. There seemed to be very few opinions in between. I don't think it had anything to do with some chamber junta. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be anyone with pots of money who loved it.

[hoya]

Some of you guys act like Stage Center raped your mom.

[Pete]

This has got to be the most polarizing building of all time -- or very close.

[zookeeper]

This has got to be the most polarizing building of all time -- or very close.

The Thomas Kinkade of architecture. I've heard art dealers talk on TV about his works being the most polarizing paintings in America. Some well-known critics love his art and some absolutely hate it. His personal foibles just add to it I'm sure.

[betts]

Well, I certainly hate Thomas Kinkade's paintings so maybe the Kincade lovers hate the Stage Center. My personal art collection is definitely eclectic, but there are no Kinkades in it, nor anything else that resembles his stuff.

[kevinpate]

The Thomas Kinkade of architecture. ...

Suddenly, I'm not just ok with the razing of SC. I'm down right overjoyed.
SC = TK. Best laugh of my week. Thanks sooooo much for that.

[metro]

Chamber junta is an expression that's been in use for a few years in the local political arena

Some of you guys act like Stage Center raped your mom.

LOL, yep. Sounds like somebody learned a new big word in academia. Today's word kids is "junta".

[betts]

Suddenly, I'm not just ok with the razing of SC. I'm down right overjoyed.
SC = TK. Best laugh of my week. Thanks sooooo much for that.

I'm going to argue that it's the anti-Kinkade.

[Spartan]

LOL, yep. Sounds like somebody learned a new big word in academia. Today's word kids is "junta".

Metro - if junta is a big word for you, you should just stick to your expressions of 140 characters or less.

Btw hoyasooner was speaking to the vehement anti-Stage Center crowd, which you know, is the topic at hand.

[Spartan]

The Thomas Kinkade of architecture. I've heard art dealers talk on TV about his works being the most polarizing paintings in America. Some well-known critics love his art and some absolutely hate it. His personal foibles just add to it I'm sure.

That's a difference of sophistication, not understanding. The difference of sophistication w Stage Center's polarization is the reverse of the Thomas Kinkade crap.

[Urbanized]

I don't want to get dragged back into this discussion, but I would argue that Warhol is a better comparison. Cozy subdivisions are the Thomas Kinkade of architecture.

Can we get back to talking about the tower?

[Jim Kyle]

I don't want to get dragged back into this discussion, but I would argue that Warhol is a better comparison. Cozy subdivisions are the Thomas Kinkade of architecture.

I'll agree with that. It's our very own Campbell Soup Can portrait...and about as useful or relevant!

But as you said, back to the topic of this thread...

[catcherinthewry]

This has got to be the most polarizing building of all time -- or very close.

I would nominate the Pompidou Center.

[Rover]

Chamber junta is an expression that's been in use for a few years in the local political arena

Oh well, then that doesn't make it decisive. Lol. If opposition groups say it, it must be appropriate. Freedom fighters...terrorists. Sometimes it is perspective.

[Rover]

I don't want to get dragged back into this discussion, but I would argue that Warhol is a better comparison. Cozy subdivisions are the Thomas Kinkade of architecture.

Can we get back to talking about the tower?

SC is more like Dali.

[tomokc]

Cubism. Pablo Picasso.

[bchris02]

I would say Dali is more like it.

[catcherinthewry]

Cubism. Pablo Picasso.

That's what I was thinking.

[CuatrodeMayo]

Some posters could argue Dadasim...

[Garin]

I wonder if this might have been the inspiration

[mkjeeves]

More in common with the abstract expressionists than the surrealists (or dadists).

Here's a few that come to my mind when I think of the building, all his contemporaries.

Adolph Gottlieb
Hans Hofmann
David Smith
Mark di Suvero
Alexander Calder

There's some similar use of color in some of those above, but yeah, I have to give a nod to the pop art color of the time, (Warhol and Lichtenstein) though not the same concept.