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Post by fumobici on Nov 9, 2010 19:02:11 GMT
Belleville seems to be the focal point for Parisian street art. It seems at its most unrestrained and vivid there. I do hope somebody is studiously archiving this stuff for posterity, it is by nature quite ephemeral and has an anti-elitist accessibility, for both the artist who isn't fed through the usual gatekeeper arbiters of current art orthodoxy prior to exhibition and the audience who get to view art outside the tightly controlled and often pretentious and stuffy context the art establishment generally prefers to inhabit.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2010 7:28:35 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 11, 2010 1:51:25 GMT
Wonderful! Is it all collage, or just the woman's torso and head?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 5:24:37 GMT
Hard to be certain, but I think it is just the woman.
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Post by myrt on Nov 11, 2010 20:40:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 20:43:41 GMT
I saw that the Banksy film is coming out soon in Paris.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 12, 2010 7:59:59 GMT
Don't know if this is strictly "street art", as some of it appears to be pictorial history recorded on interior walls. Click the picture for more, very large images: The battle scenes reminded me of similar scenes painted on buffalo hide by Plains Indians recording their battles with the US army. Couldn't find one on that subject, but this gives the idea: www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/firstnations/count.html
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Post by myrt on Nov 12, 2010 14:55:44 GMT
I think they are heartbreaking images....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2010 14:58:23 GMT
I know that in the 1970's, they would show children's drawing from Beirut and they all showed broken buildings, missiles, bombs and people lying down with red streams coming out of them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2010 19:27:38 GMT
I recall that ilbonito posted some photos of market trucks somewhere, but here are some of the trucks at the Barbès market this morning.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 4, 2010 21:00:09 GMT
Kerouac, those trucks are like the railroad boxcars we see around here, only much more artistically done.
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Post by fumobici on Dec 4, 2010 21:00:25 GMT
The delivery trucks of Paris are amazing. I've never seen their equal anywhere. Some look like random vandalism, but many others look a little too good for that. Surely some of the truck owners must allow their trucks to be used as canvasses just as do the shopkeepers there that who have local artists paint the panels they put over the windows at night in the street graphic oeuvre.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2010 22:36:21 GMT
Yes, some of the art is done with complete complicity.
But I am wondering about the cases where a beautiful paint job is completely unexpected. There are probably some "angry" owners no matter what, but some of them must be thrilled by the transformation.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 5, 2010 0:25:13 GMT
This is art meant to be seen from the street. Artists were invited to paint the traffic light control boxes all over town. This one is my favorite. The boxes are absolutely rectangular and flat, but this artist was able to fool the eye.
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Post by myrt on Dec 5, 2010 8:49:47 GMT
Is that a welcome and unexpected sight? What a nice idea
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Post by Kimby on Dec 22, 2010 16:51:04 GMT
There are a couple dozen (#103) of these all scattered around the city, and since I only see them from a moving vehicle, normally, tricky to photograph. Perhaps when the weather improves, I'll have to take a bicycle photo excursion to catch a few more.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2011 10:48:32 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2011 15:25:04 GMT
That one is fun -- love how color is used in it.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2011 15:25:13 GMT
Interpret, please? (for Kerouac at 106)
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2011 15:39:42 GMT
You don't want 107 interpreted? ;D (incidentally, it was taken in Mexico, not in an English-speaking country)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2011 16:16:07 GMT
Interpret, please? (for Kerouac at 106) I understand it as well as you do. I assume that domovoi is the handle of the artist.... unless it is Loulou.
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Post by bjd on Apr 10, 2011 19:05:52 GMT
Domovoi in Russian means "brownie" or "bogeyman"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2011 19:25:29 GMT
Interesting. There are lots of Russian/Ukrainian illegal immigrants in the neighborhood.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 10, 2011 21:27:30 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Apr 10, 2011 21:50:00 GMT
Domovoi is common in Slavic folklore - which I'd say includes Albania. Ex leader pseudonym - Loulou.
No? (I love Google) (And trying to solve a puzzle)
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2011 19:59:49 GMT
Here's the latest version of my local wall.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2011 21:59:11 GMT
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2011 0:46:11 GMT
It looks like someone got their hands on a stencil for crosswalks, or emergency exits, doesn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2011 17:28:02 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jun 13, 2011 18:39:12 GMT
And is the left portion of the lower panel a kitty door for a very large cat?
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