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rue Ourcq in the 19th

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On rue Ourcq there is a large building covered with multicoloured faces all painted by DA Cruz. So many eyes!

two women walking on the sidewalk pavement along rue Ourcq in Paris, on the left is a large building covered with street art painting of many stylized faces in many colours painted by d a cruz.
close up of part of mural by d a cruz of bright coloured faces and eyes

There is then a whole wall/fence painted by many different artists including these blue and gold faces by Un Kolor Distinto.

mural by un kolor distinto of two faces in blue and gold

close up of a face in un kolor distinto mural, on grey concrete, a face with blue nose, gold hair, and orange lips

mural with word sadio in it, tribute in memorium moral

below: In grey tones, a mural by American artist BK Foxx. This is the left half, a girl pushing against a wall.

street art mural of a young girl pushing against a wall, in black and white

below: The righthand side of the Foxx mural,

portrait of a young boy in shades of grey, street art mural, with his eyes closed, side view, very realistic
people waiting for a bus at a bus stop on rue ourcq, a large mural with bright pink background is by the bus stop

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mural on bright pink background, portrait of a black woman with long pink, orange, and green hair

below: “Can’t stop; won’t stop. Hip Hop” and Yellows. Decipher as you will.

street art painting of a man with back foreward, wearing jacket with word yellows written in yellow, also wearing a red hat with letter Z on it, mural has text can't stop won't stop hip hop

below: More Cruz faces – this time it looks like a happy couple.

two very stylized faces, a street art painting by d a cruz

below: A lovely portrait with a panda along for the ride, by Doudou Style.

street art portrait of an older black woman, smiling, with a small panda on her back

below: A spray paint can in her hand?

a street art painting of a woman squatting on the ground, with a spray paint can in her hand

below: Signed by Kaidea – a portrait in lilac and lavendar with long flowing hair.

street art portrait of a woman with lavendar colour hair

below: Baseball ptcher

street art mural of a baseball pitcher

below: A book reader who can’t stop dreaming, by FKDL aka Franck Duval.

part of a street art painting of a person holding an open book in front of their face, the word dream written many times

below: Blue faces peaking out from behind the mask

close upp of street art mural of a mask with white straw hair and two blue faces peaking out from the straw
two people walking past a wall with street art on it

below: Rue Ourcq ends at Av. Jean Jaures at the same time that the railway passes overhead. The end section is also covered with DA Cruz faces.

street art murals on rue ourcq as it ends under railway overpass, street art by d a cruz as well as one piece with text french kiss

Photos taken March 2023

colours and people on the stairs.

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On Ahmad Bin Hanbal Street, close to where it connects to Prince Muhammad, there is a set of stairs leading upward.  Because Amman is built on a number of hills, stairs like this are many (although not all of them are painted).

brightly coloured stairs that end with a a white wall with paintings of people made from circles and ovals with stick arms and legs, all doing something

below: A busy group of people, climbing ladders, filming, talking to the cameraman, constructing, walking, etc.

a white wall with paintings of people made from circles and ovals with stick arms and legs, all doing something, climbing ladder,

rainow and flowers painted on a set of stairs

below: A long ribbon of colours flow from her backpack.

black silhouette of a girl with a backpack on, reading a book, colours flow from ther backpack in a long wave down the stairs

below: Leaves made of multicoloured spirals

beside a railing and a staircase, a mural of a tree with spirals in the place of leaves, many colours

part of a mural of stick figures with oval bodies, a hand on a hip

below: A question mark on his forehead.  Also, a view of one of the hillsides in central Amman.

a blue line drawing of a man's face with a question mark on his forehead, painted on a short wall, view of Amman in the background

quick draws, pasteups, and stencils in Bucharest

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The following pictures are a few little stencils that I saw in Bucharest along with some line drawings/paintings, mostly of faces….

mostly faces…. and one pig.  At least I think it’s a pig!

graffiti painting, a pig outlined in blue, on an angle between a door and a window

on the side of a building, a blue outline of a man's face, cars parked on the street, trees,

below: The top pasteup is a little creature by creaturi dragute and the woman on the  bottom is by ortaku

two pasteups, a woman in green and yellow and a creature by creaturi dragute

black stencil of Jesus, with halo around his head, a book in one hand, the other hand is pointing the book

 

below: A man throwing and two running.  The man is throwing a bouquet of flowers and it is a small copy of a Banksy, “Flower Thrower” Jerusalem 2003.  In the original, the flowers are in colour.

three stencils in a row, on the left a man throwing something, the next two are men running away

below: Another ortaku woman’s head, this time on Strada Ing. Traian Vuia, and she has company – a fish, a book and a man’s head stenciled along with some words. .. “Transparenta tine de foame” which translates to “transparency is hungry” .  I suspect that this is political but I don’t know enough about Romania to know who the man is.

small pieces of graffiti on a wall, a paste up woman, a paste up fsh, a stencil head with words, also a poster for a Bruno Mars concert

black and white head painted on a wall, large, with a beak in place of a mouth. bird or human?

two line drawn graffiti faces on a concrete wall

stencil, black, seated person with red block capital letters above the head that say on sale

 

below: I wish I knew what the signature was.  Anyone?

cartoonish character with angular green hair, three eyes, then a red layer, a yellow layer and on the bottom a blue layer, it seems to be looking at a little paste up of a head

two red stencils of men's heads, one is a king wearing a crown and one is a man wearing a tie. the latter is dirty, looks like it has mud in his eye

black outline drawing of a person's wearing a hoodie and black hole where face should be and low rise pants with a belt. also the words I didn't do anything

below: And the last one is more like a mural… I suspect that it’s on a library wall.
large mural of a grey face reading a book. One of the eyes is actually a window