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What Is Going On With Goalie Mask Art?
by Paul on 09/08/09 at 06:48 AM ET
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from Colby Cosh of the National Post,
The painted goalie masks of the past were, by and large, bright abstract designs easily legible from the cheap seats. Most of the great, enduring ones were thought up by the father of mask painting, design student/goalie Greg Harrison. The masks from that time are the ones we still revere as canonical: Ken Dryden’s concentric red-and-blue “targets,” Mike Palmateer’s classic Leafs mask, the bicentennial special Ron Low wore with the Caps, Murray Bannerman’s elegant “kabuki” number. When goalies switched to the combined mask-with-caged-visor style of today, things began to get slightly more representational and crude, but some of the best literalist designs of the ‘80s and early ‘90s were still simple and tasteful, executed in a minimalist spirit: Mike Richter’s Lady Liberty, Andy Moog’s Bruins bear.
But now things have gone completely to hell.
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A. I can’t believe someone wrote that shite article, and
B. I can’t believe I read the whole damn thing waiting for the writer to make a point other than “ OLD MASKS GOOD! NEW MASKS BAD!”
Posted by moocat on 09/08/09 at 02:56 PM ET