art in the everyday: a different kind of subway art

subway abstraction, detail 1subway abstraction, detail 2Coming home from the Met one day, I saw these "Ghosts of Subway Advertisements Past" in a new light: as Abstract Expressionist paintings. There are so many beautiful 'works' of this nature in the various stations.The image at the top with the single red dot reminds me of a work by Clyfford Still in the Museum's 20th Century galleries. (