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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2010 22:38:09 GMT
Big blank walls are often commissioned by municipal authorities (or whatever) for artists to paint something on them besides graffitti or advertising. Here are some walls in my neighborhood, but I will soon find more.
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Post by bjd on Feb 2, 2010 8:09:08 GMT
Great idea -- I like the bottom one. I have only noticed one or two in Toulouse but where I live there was a woman hired to paint some municipal walls a few years ago. Unfortunately they were not maintained and have lost a lot of their paint.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2010 13:58:04 GMT
On the main commercial corridor near where I live.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 3, 2010 1:01:55 GMT
I just love all of these. Astounding and brilliantly wrought as is that last trompe l'oeil one of Kerouac's, the one that really captures me is the big splotch of pink and its "pencil scratchings" framed by the line of trees. I love how the drawings mirror the upright forms of the trees and their branches.
That is a wonderful, crazy mural, perfect for its spot and that area, Casimira.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2010 11:16:01 GMT
I was a bit reticent about even taking a photo of this mural because from the rear of my house,on the balcony,I can see way too much of it,365 days of the year,particularly in the winter time when the majority of the landscape is dormant. So,my eye goes to all those bright colors which are not my favorite to begin with, and it reeks havoc with my landscape palette of softer colors the majority of the growing season. It does look great on the street from where the photo was taken and designed to be seen from. The gentleman who commissioned it is a dear friend of ours,he has a severe Barbie fetish.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 3, 2010 17:15:24 GMT
Uck ~~ interesting point about "personal landscape". No matter how happy we are with our surroundings, there can be a blotch in our peripheral vision that thuggishly draws attention from the perfection of the whole. I think this is a real problem for people with a good eye for design, as they can't stop thinking, "if only ...."
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Post by lagatta on Feb 3, 2010 18:17:16 GMT
That is true. I can see that participating in the food festival event casimira recorded, but I wouldn't like seeing it from behind my house either as it would detract from our lilacs and other perennials, and even the greys, blacks and browns of the bare trees in wintertime.
I do find the Barbie stuff a bit creepy, though it does hark back to Hans Bellmer, who was creepy too, but an important artist.
The Parisian ones correspond much more to my dreamscape, as I often dream of existing buildings and rooms leading onto hidden or disguised ones (and it is no problem for the dream métro to extend from Jean-Talon to Marx Dormoy...)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 12:23:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 15:20:13 GMT
Nice K. I much prefer these subtle,understated,muted "decorations".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 15:40:21 GMT
I need to get another picture of that second wall, because it is not painted at all. It is made out of perpendicular metal blades cut to make the image, which of course changes depending on the angle. I have admired this portrait of Leonardo for at least 25 years, and it still looks as good as it did when they installed it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 7, 2010 18:35:08 GMT
Oooooooo ~~ they're both fabulous, although the top one may have just become my favorite of all the trompe l'oeil examples that have been shown here. There's something about the monochrome decision not to go all the way with the eye trickery that is just perfect.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2010 22:53:54 GMT
Here are some different angles of Leonardo.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2010 6:27:38 GMT
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Post by imec on Feb 15, 2010 17:26:36 GMT
Really cool k!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2010 18:53:44 GMT
Walls & doors of a nightclub:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 22:44:57 GMT
Does it have a name related to bees? "The Honey Pot?"
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2010 23:08:41 GMT
It doesn't have any name that I've ever been able to see. It's also repainted with different themes pretty regularly. A few months ago I took a bunch of pictures of my favorite version of the wall so far. It was a very bright day & I was trying not to be hit by traffic, so didn't notice until later that the camera was set wrong & all I had were completely white photos.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2010 21:16:54 GMT
Here is a crappy Parisian mistake.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 21, 2010 4:19:31 GMT
You mean the big slab o'building, or the artwork?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2010 22:11:15 GMT
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Post by repertoire on Mar 5, 2010 14:14:18 GMT
Great pictures in here !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2010 23:29:32 GMT
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Post by Jazz on Mar 20, 2010 23:37:58 GMT
Gorgeous! I love the tulips! Here is a humbler photo, a painted door in the Marais, in Village St. Paul...
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2010 0:16:06 GMT
Those are definitely "different strokes" walls. I adore the sheet music, but feel the ones of flowers were diminished by the 3-D elements. Jazz, that little door is exquisite. I wish I had the talent. The moment I saw it, I thought of a particular wall that cries out for such a treatment. Also, seeing that reminded me that I took a picture of a favorite painted wall about six weeks ago, and forgot all about it. I know the woman who painted this. It's not her house! She lives a couple of doors up the street. I guess it was okay with the owners, though. It gets a fair bit of attention and she fixed it after it was graffitied once. The placard shows one of Benito Juarez's most famous sayings, "Respect for the rights of others is peace."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2010 16:40:20 GMT
This last group of 3 is so diverse!!
I adore the tulips but the 3D element is somehow too much. Whereas, the sheet music I am crazy about.
Jazz, I am in love,love with your doorway. Somehow though,it seems that if it were somewhere else,it wouldn't work quite as beautifully. (As I sit here and ponder,could I pull off something like that? The answer being NO!!)
Bixa,I always enjoy the primitive style that the Mexican people with no qualms whatsoever,always seem to take to the extreme with such a great sense of humor as well.
I loved these!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2010 19:35:52 GMT
Yes -- this is a great topic.
The place I have in mind for the improvement of "Jazz's doorway" is almost the twin of her photo.
Ironically, the lady who did the sofa painting is an American. She is a big aficionada of primitive painting, though, and has a collection from a street person artist in Chicago.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 23, 2010 6:19:33 GMT
A month ago I showed a picture of the huge cloth wall covering the repairs on the front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca. ( here, Reply #2) Here's a slightly different angle from the one in that thread: Today I walked by and saw that there was a completely different cloth wall in place. I couldn't get far enough away to get a readable shot of the whole thing, but here are two halves plus a photomerge. This building in reality is a space ship. The people inside are repairing the engines so that they can return to their galaxy continue reading here --->Then you turn the corner to finish reading the end wall, which says: If you believe the building was Cortez's house and is now the Museum of Contemporary Art, you have to go inside to see for yourself
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2010 18:05:49 GMT
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 24, 2010 2:34:34 GMT
Isn't that copied? From dancing sylphs or so?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2010 6:36:29 GMT
Jérôme Mesnager is very famous for his naked wall ghosts. Obviously, some of them are inspired by classic paintings.
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