So here are the murals, executed by a combined force of Dutch and Russian graffiti artists, which grace the area where you were staying in Moscow this summer.
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So here are the murals, executed by a combined force of Dutch and Russian graffiti artists, which grace the area where you were staying in Moscow this summer.
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I quite liked the third picture – it was rather like having a large piece of modern art on the side your building. Not that I’m particularly big on modern art.
As for the rest, it is certainly a novel way to have public art in your neighbourhood.
And I certainly wouldn’t be that keen on having the yelling baby look at me every morning. There’s enough of my own at home.
An excellent point about the baby, although it’s the one with the eye that freaks me out a bit. Fun though, overall.
Near work there is a small side street with some street art like this on the railway arches and in some of the bars. It’s nice it brightens the place up.
Every year it gets replaced over one weekend in summer when they hold a festival which features the street artists doing their thing, music – live and DJs
http://www.eurocultured.com/events/manchester2010/
Oh I like the idea of getting it renewed/ changed every now and again. Graffiti should be a bit ephemeral anyway.
I used to know a Russian teenager who hung with a graffiti crowd, although I think she was more into photography. She was quite adamant that real graffiti artists would never draw on surfaces that were otherwise beautiful, visually or any other way. I believe she called scrawling you tag, particularly over monuments and such ‘toilet writing’, although it occurs she might have tidied that phrase up a bit for me. I like a good bit of graffiti myself. There’s the odd Bansky copyist round our way, which I rather enjoy. Stencils seem to be where it’s at now.
Well creating murals (be it street art, high art or other) is different to just tagging random surfaces. When we were in Brussels we enjoyed finding murals dedicated to various comic book characters all over the city.
http://www.pbase.com/wdkg/comics
Cool! And in Brussels *resists the temptation to make a Belgium joke*
Go on make a joke. You know you want to…
Still it is a fine city with good chocolate, beer and chips.
What is so good about Belguimese… Belquique… Belgan… what is the word? chips anyway?
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some really nice big walls there