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(152,214 posts)The amount of detail and the colors and the designs are just amazing! The creativity just blows me away.
Old Crank
(4,725 posts)I like inventive street art but don't really apreciate tagging. Even if some is pretty inventive
Bayard
(24,145 posts)appleannie1
(5,203 posts)My brother lived there until he died in 1988. Hubby and I always flew out to visit his family, even after his death. His father-in-law always took us around to view things in the city when we visited. On one trip it was to see the beautiful mural graffiti. I remember an alley that was a couple blocks long and every building had gorgeous art work painted on it. The above are stunning.
Old Crank
(4,725 posts)It is a feast for the eyes and a look into another culture.
scarletlib
(3,492 posts)Really improves the urban landscape
niyad
(120,272 posts)regarded as a canvas. Even this community is starting to come around to that view.
pandr32
(12,205 posts)Full credit goes to the artist not the recorder.
pandr32
(12,205 posts)peppertree
(22,850 posts)When Pinochet took over in Chile in '73, one of his first orders was to order all the murals painted over - and he made a special point to single out any with Indigenous motifs.
After he bowed out in '90, a few were meticulously restored (as much as they could, anyway).
niyad
(120,272 posts)we have become, depressingly, far too familiar with it.
peppertree
(22,850 posts)Deep breaths really do help (and St. John's Wort).
niyad
(120,272 posts)My favorite is Cointreau - bursting with zesty orange flavor as it is.
So intense, just a taste will often do (a little more, if you were chewed out by somebody).
niyad
(120,272 posts)Old Crank
(4,725 posts)Back in the day.
peppertree
(22,850 posts)But with a lot less Spanish.
(in a lot of cases, of course, economic ruin often followed the wave of atrocities)
niyad
(120,272 posts)Old Crank
(4,725 posts)mike_c
(36,340 posts)I love public art!
TommieMommy
(1,141 posts)Diamond_Dog
(34,890 posts)The artwork is so beautiful. I could look at these for hours.
Pinback
(12,897 posts)Precita Eyes Muralists is a nonprofit organization there dedicated to preserving and promoting the Mission District murals:
https://www.precitaeyes.org/
I had a wonderful day a few years ago roaming that area and seeing one jaw-dropping, inspiring mural after another. A glorious tribute to the human spirit.
Old Crank
(4,725 posts)Searching them out. Plus picking up some of the local foods to sustain your efforts.
ShazzieB
(18,751 posts)I can't tell you how much I love these vibrant explosions of color. I love things that are colorful, and the artists who have created these have used dramatic palettes of the kind of bright, intense hues that my eyes love to wallow in. Thanks for sharing these images!
The least that I could do for these artist and the area.
JohnnyRingo
(19,332 posts)Usually have to wait for a freight train to go by to see such a level of graffiti art.