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Vhils and flowers

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One of the joys of exploring cities that have organizations and programs that promote good street art, is finding walls that have been a canvas for artists with global reach. In this case, the city of Chicopee (that I suspect many people outside of Massachusetts have never heard of) has a mural by Vhils, aka Alexandre Farto, a Portuguese artist whose work is now found in over 30 countries.

On the side of a residential building, a large mural by Vhils of a man's face with the word chicopee on the top and the year 1848 on the bottom, like a coin. On a lower section of the wall is a mural of different types of flowers on a bright blue background - poppies, daisies, foxglove, and more

below: A better look at the Vhils work – He hasn’t painted this mural. Instead it has been created using a bas-relief carving technique. The colours in the mural are the colors of the different layers on the wall.

below: A garden of color. Bright red poppies with white and yellow daisies….  Blue hollyhocks and yellow delphinium (I think!) too.

Photos taken July 2024

a little parade

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… at Atlantic & Crouch, Rochester

below: Brazilian artist Eder Muniz’s mural features vibrantly coloured animals and fantasy creatures dancing and swimming along the wall in their own little parade Blue of water; blue of air.

mural by Eder Muniz in Rochester, long mural with lots of animals such as snake, fish, humming bird, elephant, some real and some more from fantasy such as creature with bunch of leaves for a head

below: One of the most human-like character in the mural carries a long serpentine pennon in front of an elephant that is either eating a tree or that has tusks growing into trees.  

Part of a mural by Eder Muniz, on blue background, small elf like character carrying a pole with a long banner on the wnd of it, an elephant following behind, with a bird sitting on the back of the elephant looking backwards

below: At the rear of the parade, a hummingbird (or similar small bird) rides on the back of the elephant.

purplish bird with long beak sitting on a decorated fabric on the back of an elephant

below: A host of creatures in the mural’s mid-section – walking, sitting, swimming, floating.

middle section of Eder Muniz mural, creatures sitting, walking, and swimming through watery blue, bubbles, fish, birds,

below: Humanoid body; leaf head, all smaller than the long skinny bird legs.

part of a mural, sitting person but with head made of green leaves floating and billowing in the blue water

below: Instead of leaves, this little guy has a head full of crystals.

part of a watery blue mural, character in tuck position, hair is a wild collection of crystals,

below: Faces on creatures of fantasy. One with plumage like a bird and the other with squiggles and curls like nothing else. Eyes closed. Big lips.

part of a mural

below: Swimming together, a greenish fish and a striped snake.

part of a mural, a green fish swimming beside a snake striped in pastel colours

below: More fish swimming in the blue bubbles.

part of a mural, three fish

below: Taking the lead in this little parade is a large green beaked bird character. Following along with the fish and the snake is a snail and a pinkish purple frog. There even seems to be a scuba diver.

right hand side of a long mural on bright blue background, fish, snakes, birds, and other creatures

below: Here’s a closer look at that grinning frog as well as the spotted iguana beside it.

part of a mural with fantasy animals, a purple frog, a blue spotted iguana,

below: And last, the long finned fish gracefully makes it way through the watery blue.

part of a watery mural, blue, with an orange fish with long fins, a scuba diver,

Mural painted in 2015
Photos taken mid- May 2023

still staring on Crouch Street

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On Crouch Street in Rochester NY, this large face stares out at passers-by. When it was painted by Vexta in 2015, there was a lot more vibrant pink and red in it. What is now pale yellow used to be closer to neon green and yellow.

large mural on corner of building, face in black and white, coloured splotches on both sides of face in blue and faded red and green and yellow, by Vexta in Rochester

Time passes and colours fade, but the eyes still stare relentlessly ahead.

part of mural by Vexta, close up picture of eyes and nose of face in mural

Photos taken May 2023

Ligama and Loste

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A large mural in Bushwick (Brooklyn) NY called ‘Brick Venus’ was recently painted by two Italian artists, Ligama and Mirko Loste. It features large sculpture-like faces. The face on the righthand side is so large it extends off the top of the wall so that you can’t see her eyes.

large grey eyeless face in a mural on an exterior brick wall, looks like it has been carved from stone

Some colour seems to be creeping into the middle face. Colour and life.

By the third Venus, the transition is complete; she is no longer made of stone

The Bushwick Collective – a graffiti and street art project of artists from around the world founded in 2011 and still going strong.

women, cats, and égalité

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Three more large murals in the 13th arrond. of Paris

two murals on the sides of highrise apartments, a black cat by c215 and a medallion shaped piece by Shepard Fairy

below: Very French – liberté, égalité, and fraternité, in red, white, and blue by Shepard Fairey

mural by Shepard Fairey in Paris, on top of a building, French motto Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite forming a large circle, with a woman's head in the middle. Woman has roses in her hair.

below: Large black cat overlooking rue Nationale by French artist C215, aka Christian Guémy

large mural of a black cat's head, in profile

below: Dface is the artist who painted this bright blue haired woman.

DFace mural of a woman's head, bright blue hair and red lips, on the side of a residential building in Paris

close up of DFace mural of a woman's head, bright blue hair and red lips, on the side of building in Paris

Kamenne Namestie

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… is a public space in Bratislava that is mostly parking lot. It is also home to a few murals.

below: Mural by tankpetrol, painted in 2018 as part of that year’s Bratislava Street Art Fest

a man in grey clothes walks past a kiosk selling drinks, snacks, and such things. behind it is a building with a large mural on the side. in the mural, a hand is holding a photo of part of a face on what looks like a ripped piece of paper. the eyes and nose are visible. the mural was painted by tank petrol

close up of face in a mural, a hand is holding a photo of part of a face on what looks like a ripped piece of paper. the eyes and nose are visible. the mural was painted by tank petrol

below: This mural was created in 2020 by Cart’1.

mural, a character in a white puffy suit is using forced air to hang blue wall paper. paper has pattern of words ego and vanity in white

below: The blue wallpaper has a pattern that is made of the words ‘vanity’ and ‘ego’ repeated hundreds of times.

close up of character in cart 1 mural about wall papering in blue

below: ‘Rozjimanie’ by Fin DAC

large, tall, mural of a red woman, title of Rozjimanie, by Irish artist Fin DAC. bottom part of mural is obscured by cars in a parking lot.

large, tall, mural of a red woman, title of Rozjimanie, by Irish artist Fin DAC.

 below: Daor and Dano, painted these two partial faces

two womens faces on a wall, painted mural

below: Above the coffee shop this statuesque woman, seemingly carved from stone, reaches towards the birds.

below: čo nás ľudí robí krásnymi [loosely: what makes us people beautiful] by Sasha Chagina and Jano Wajcko Vajsabel. It is a promotion by DM, i.e. an advertisement. But it looks so much like a street art mural! You might not agree with it’s inclusion on this page but you’ll have to admit that it has blurred the line between “commerical” and “artwork”.

large mural of a large group of people, a very diverse group, crossing at a crosswalk

Queen Elizabeth + Bowie = Banksy NOT!

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Rock star status lightning bolt – a now iconic symbol painted on David Bowie’s face for the “Aladdin Sane” album cover in 1973. Here, Banksy Incwel applies the lightning bolt to a younger Queen Elizabeth in a piece titled “Still Sane”- bestowing her with rock star status? It was painted in 2012, the year of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee (i.e. her 60th year as monarch).

behind a traffic light, on the upper level of a building, on a pale grey wall, a Banksy street art. A black and white Queen Elizabeth 2, younger woman, with a crown on her head. She has a red and blue David Bowie lightning bolt across her face like the Aladdin Sane album cover of 1973

Eros & Psyche

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‘Eros & Psyche’ is a large mural painted by Greek artist insane51 as part of Montreal’s 2019 Mural Festival.  It is designed to be viewed with 3D glasses.  Painted in blues is the ‘exterior’ of a woman while the skeleton and brain are shown in reds.

large mural, red and blue, of a woman showing skeleton and brain, as well as body pierced by two red arrows, designed to be viewed with 3 D galsses, painted in Montreal by insane51

In Greek mythology Psyche was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros, the god of love.  Eros, also known as Cupid (in Latin, or Roman mythology), was the son of Aphrodite and he was always throwing arrows to people in order to hit their heart and make them fall in love.  Psyche was the youngest daughter of a king; she was more beautiful than any goddess.  The story of Eros and Psyche is long and a bit convoluted.  It involves prophesies, happiness followed by betrayal and heart ache but of course it has a fairy tale ending, Psyche becomes immortal, and the couple live happily ever after.