Street Art Favourites

[Dee]

By Julien de Casabianca Memphis

[Moonchime]

Gosh that is one amazing picture isn't it? It looks so very real - like a photo.
So striking it must come as a shock when you suddenly see it. I really like it although the building is depressing as can be - totally abandoned I assume.

As for Frieda wanting to do a mural - I'm not sure - it seems to me it is a very different discipline to painting on canvas and the two are not automatic bedfellows, but maybe...

[Dee]

Gosh that is one amazing picture isn't it? It looks so very real - like a photo.
So striking it must come as a shock when you suddenly see it. I really like it although the building is depressing as can be - totally abandoned I assume.

I guess, that's what makes the already stunning picture even more amazing, the juxtaposition of the innocent beauty that should represent hope, with the desolate, decrepit and decay?

As for Frieda wanting to do a mural - I'm not sure - it seems to me it is a very different discipline to painting on canvas and the two are not automatic bedfellows, but maybe...

I think she would have loved the idea of her art reaching the everyday people not just the privileged few?

[Moonchime]

Inside a tunnel on a mountain in France

[Moonchime]

Outside a barber's in London

[Dee]

Love the Attenborough wall!!

[Lori]

Oh my! The little girl on the building - beautiful. I see I've neglected this thread and must come back as I'm working today. Found some wonderful things in Turin, Italy. Please forgive if redundant (coming back to explore after work and also exploring the site link below).



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mantrarea (Mantra)

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[Dee]

Stunning!

[Moonchime]

Agreed - although I think I might just prefer fewer butterflies - the blue one is amazing!

[Dee]

Yes, I agree, just one blue giant butterfly on its own could be even more striking! Like Mona Caron’s big weeds!

[NurseRatched]

I love all these additions!! The little girl, the butterflies...

[Moonchime]

By Julien de Casabianca Memphis

I see Julien as different to those artists who paint directly onto the walls of buildings - but I do love the idea of widening the audience of art from galleries and museums by plastering them about cities.

From boredpanda.com :
When French artist and filmmaker Julien de Casabianca visited the Louvre, there was one lonely girl that caught his eye; that girl, portrayed in a lonely painting in a forgotten corner, inspired him to help forgotten paintings like her live a second life. He took a picture of her, pasted her up in the street, and the Outings street art project was born.

Now, de Casabianca’s projects has become a “world participative project;” artists around the world have been invited to turn characters from forgotten classical paintings into street art, where they might get the renewed attention that they deserve. Artists can even receive small grants to help them with the cost of printing the artwork. They are encouraged to use clear, non-damaging wallpaper glue and to choose dirty and decaying walls – these are more beautiful and the art there will probably last longer, since their owners won’t care about keeping them clean.


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