below: The first of two cats by Missmam (aka Marie-Anne Montfort) whose Instagram page says: “Street Chats pour le plaisir et autres curiosités pour la beauté”. On the right, a girl with long blond braids by Nevoul Art (the Little Street Art Fairy).
below: Missmam, another “La chat fortune” but this time, the lucky cat is getting a bouquet of tulips and balloons from an amorous seahorse by Industrie Tarte. This lippocampe comes ready to divide into sections – filet, plat de cotes, bavette, flanchet – which are all cuts of meat.
below: “Trust, live, love” on a little heart
below: She’s slightly fuzzy in this photo I’m afraid, she also appears on a number of European walls. Street art by seiLeise (aka Tom Ossege)
Graffiti and street art seen while walking along the Seine in Paris.
below: Woof woof! Yes Paris!
below: Multi-coloured by Tremos, Peruvian artist living in France
below: At Voie sur Berge (Passerelle Léopold Sedar Senghor), in the 7ème, is this long mural by Michael Beerens titled “Plastique” – it is a comment on the state of our oceans.
The title is French but the word in the mural is English, “plastic”.
below: Honey bear by fnnch. There are quite a few of these around Paris and I blogged about them in June of 2022, Honey Bears.
Swallows in flight; swallows with little white halos.
below: A “My dog sighs” sticker beside a portrait of a woman with very orange hair.
below: A small black and white cat by Copycat, an “anonymeows streetartist” who has painted hundreds of cats.
below: Another Copycat cat…
below: ….. and yet another, on a multi coloured background
below: Another Copycat cat… this time it has a companion, another orange headed woman. She is surrounded by an intricate design and is the work of OJA.
below: Re-using many, many can lids – beer cans, pop cans, drink cans.
below: Are three heads better than one?
below: A sassy blue monkey with a pink heart bum.
below:Mr. Djoul is an artist who creates mosaics, especially of this little green-eyed alien creature
below: Invader mosaic? And in the lower left corner, bright red hair and words that say “My weariness in longing”
below: From the description beside the photo: “Ho–[torn] made a famous photograph of a dying soldier which became anti war icon since 1930s. Later it was proven to be a staged image on which nobody really died… From Russian diaries of Krapiva Netleva” [krapiva is the Russian word for nettle]
References to Diego Maradona are everywhere in Naples! Maradona (1960-2020) was a football hero to many. He joined Napoli’s football team (Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, or SSC Napoli) in 1984 and took a lacklustre team and made them winners. During the seven years that Maradona led the Naples team they won two Series A titles – the first southern Italian team to do so. His influence on Naples lives on.
below: This forty foot high mural is the center of all things Maradona. There are direction signs all over the old part of the city (Quartieri Spagnoli) showing the way to this small square. If you visit, expect to find it full of fans!
Also, expect to find all kinds of tributes to Napoli’s favorite footballer all over the city.
below: Maradona is not the only player celebrated here. This mural is a tribute to Dries Mertens, “il miglior goleador” [= the best goal scorer] and “148 gol, 9 anni, di storia amore”
below: Maradona as king, artwork by Mr. Pencil
below: Number 9 is not Maradona. The little band of yellow hair on top gives it away as Victor Osimhen, originally from Nigeria.
below: Nicely placed women beside Franco Martinez’s portrait of Maradona.
below: Another portrait of Naples most famous #10, this one by Yessica Garcia.
Here are three more, of the MANY, murals found in Stornara Italy.
below: “Fly with me” by Alessandra Carloni, 2023. With a suitcase all packed and ready to go, heading out for adventures on a turtle.
below: A lazy, comfortable ride through a sea of red and blue in a mural by Nikro, aka Nicola Ciarallo, 2021
below:Erica II Cane (or Ericailcane), A distracted cat! And while the cat’s away, the mice will play. The mice have taken over! Don’t be a distracted cat!
In the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish Quarter) of Naples there is an alley, Vico Totò, with many portraits that pay tribute to Totò, the stage name of an Italian actor Antonio “Totò” De Curtis (1898-1967). There are several paintings of him in some of his acting roles; He appeared in 97 films in a career that spanned three decades. There are also some other actors represented here.
below: Only the top part remains – including his black bowler hat.
below: A couple stands in front of Davide Zeka’s painting ofTotò in the role of a priest.
below: “Stu core analfabeta” This illiterate heart….
below: Michele Wuk’s ‘Totò con la papalina’ where the words say “L’educazione non passa mai di moda” (Totò with the skullcap: “Education never goes out of style”),
below: Bright and cheerful, colours and smiley shapes, a work by Filipino-American artist JUJMO (aka Cheryl Weber)
below: “Are You My Mother?” by Carrie Jadus, painted in 2017 on the back of the Arts Xchange Building and seen from the Pinellas Trail. It was painted in coordination with the grand opening (“birth”) of the Arts Xchange.
below: Two sides of a sidewalk box – from the SHINE 2019 corner canvas project, painted by Jenipher Chandley.
below (and above): An American flag with its red, white, and blue merges with a Cuban flag, also in red, white, and blue in a mural by Michel Mirabal. It is actually on 22nd Avenue, but backs onto the Pinellas Trail.
below: For the 2021 SHINE Festival, Nicole Salgar’s “The Commuter”
From Salgar’s Instagram page: “In this piece, the muse is intended to be portrayed as a gatekeeper to other dimensions and realities. She is connecting with the viewer through her gaze, and behind her you can peer into her intimate space, which appears to be in the process of transformation. Her existence is one which flows throughout time without any boundaries. Time is represented in this piece through the changing shapes and fields of color. The structure to the far right, which is interacting with her physical form, is a portal that symbolizes the doorway into another dimension, or a parallel universe. This is a representation of the pathways we follow through transitions and transformations throughout our lives. Theories say that versions of our universe overlap, and even interact with one another on the quantum level, affecting our own universe. This piece is a loop which speaks to the idea of no beginnings or endings, just absolute continuity. The very concept of time is ultimately an illusion, created by humans to reconcile with our memories. Ultimately, this mural is a culmination of the feminine spirit of all things being tied together through reality, nature, dreams, space and time. A boundless energy which makes up the entire universe. “
This post is the third of three that feature street art in the Warehouse Arts District. The other two are: 1. At 24th Street and 5th Avenue South and 2. Pink Men on 5th
below: “We are all magic” with green eyes, unicorns, and a butterfly. Mural by Sarah G. Sheppard. This mural is actually on the same building as the mural that I showed in the last blog post here, Pink Men on 5th.
below: “Temple of Eternal Bliss”, 2019, by Palehorse (aka Christopher Parks)
Photos taken March 2024
Nearby are other murals in the Warehouse Arts District. They can be seen in two other blog posts: 1. Pink Men on 5th and 2. St. Pete’s – more from the Warehouse District.
On 5th Ave South there is a large mural painted by Colombian artist GLEO for SHINE 2021 as a tribute to two men who were important to her. SHINE is the annual St. Petersburg Mural Festival. Unfortunately part of it is now hidden behind a large white container.
Eyes on the Streets 