Inspired by the amazing vintage LA murals from Amor's thread, I thought I'd start this. Snapped this one on George Street, Sydney at lunchtime:
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I went to Orgosolo the other year. It's a remarkable town up in the hills of Sardinia. Bandit country. But in the 1960s a local artist started painting political murals that dealt with Sardinian independence, anti Imperialism, ant Nazism, anarchism etc. You can plot the history of the town and Sardinia through the paintings. I loved it there, I felt very inspired briefly. Inspired to do what, I didn't know, but it was nice to get a flicker.
I also had a ridiculously good sandwich. They didn't speak any English. I just asked for carne. I don't think I've ever had a better sandwich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgosolo_mural
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Bratislava was good for murals when I was there. There was a big fox I liked.
My favourite mural is History of the Old Kent Road by Adam Kossowski on what was the North Peckham Civic Centre. Detail below.
There are images of the complete mural in this album. I should have taken a picture of the building and the context of the mural. It wraps around the ground floor and is 1000 sq ft.
Kossowski is fascinating, he mostly did religious work.
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- Mar 2008
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
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This one near where I live is quite nice:
Even more striking is the remarkable mural by the famous Spanish “street” artist from Bilbao, Eva Mena, on a wall in Wellesley Road. This is said to be of the American singer and musician Erykah Badu. The work was commissioned by the owners of the building, Indepth Hygiene Services. It was painted in three days in 2010, when the artist came over from Spain to paint it. It is entirely typical of her street art, which is to be found on walls in many parts of the world, including Egypt, Ireland and Spain, as well as Sutton.
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- Mar 2008
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- Black Country Green Belt
- Crusaders FC, Norn Iron, not forgetting Serendib
- Blueberry vodka Jaffa cake on marzipan base
Duncairn Gardens would be up for this. Trouble is there's so much to choose from- paramilitarism, sporting heroics, soon to be extinct big cats and the Book of Revelation...
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I've got lots of mural photos which I'll dig out at some point - quite a lot from the Point district of Salem, which has a really good art project aimed at breaking down the socio-economic barriers between this district and the rest of the North Shore area. Their website is here http://puntourbanartmuseum.org/ and has far better images of the murals than I do, so I'll just post a couple of mine and let you look at the rest on their site.
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We’ve got a few. Here’s the newest.
https://www.statecollege.com/news/lo...llege,1481035/
https://www.statecollege.com/news/lo...nough,1481967/
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- Mar 2008
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- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until I can forgive them for hiring Jose), Liverpool, and Dortmund
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I didn't make these photos myself, but this is my favorite mural in Chicago. The great thing about this one is that no matter where one stands, the eyes seem to follow.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/vamonde.media/adventures%2F1%2FDraftAdventure_1_2018-10-01T22%3A26%3A07.244Z.jpg
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- Mar 2008
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- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until I can forgive them for hiring Jose), Liverpool, and Dortmund
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For some reason I couldn't post two links in the same post. Here's a close-up.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/vamonde.med...%3A07.244Z.jpg
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- Jul 2016
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- Dublin
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Dublin City Council put out a decision that all murals need planning permission, even on private property with the owners permission. It's been swallowed up by Covid 19, but we'll wait to see what happens afterwards.
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