Banksy’s new stencilled artwork entitled ‘Valentine’s Day mascara’ has appeared along Grosvenor Place in Margate. The artwork shows a stereotypical 1950s-dressed housewife wearing a blue checkered dress and yellow rubber gloves. However, she also has a black eye and a missing tooth. Photo Credit Banksy She is closing the lid of a discarded trunk freezer, with a pair of men’s legs and shoes seen poking out from the other side. The artwork highlights the issue of domestic violence. Photo Credit Banksy Most of us celebrate Valentine’s Day with loved ones sharing cards, flowers and romantic meals. However, for some, it is just another day of living in fear of abuse. Love and relationships should be based on equality and respect, not violence and abuse. Love should not hurt. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Banksy (@banksy) National Domestic Abuse Helpline – 0808 2000 247 – https://ift.tt/nfTqg5O (run by R...
Picture by Chop’em Down Films . It is one of the most dangerous ways you can do graffiti: hanging from buildings to carry out vertical interventions with visibility from far around. We can’t talk about this phenomenon without mentioning pixaçao movement as the origin, since it’s the international graffiti scene that has focused most on hitting buildings from top to bottom. Today Subtu and Francisco are perfect examples of the craft, not only thanks to their pixaçao tags applied by abseiling, but also their production of more complex pieces. Today, this type of graffiti is gaining some proponents in Europe. To investigate the current development of vertical graffiti on the old continent and the different forms it takes, we’ve interviewed three of the most representative writers, from Berlin to Marseille and Valencia, namely Ikarus, Crapule and Wins. WINS AKA “VERTICAL DESTROYER” Nicknamed the vertical destroyer, the Valencian writer Wins could be considered a pioneer in t...
The Parees Festival has just wrapped up its sixth edition bringing four new murals from national and international artists to Oviedo, Spain, organized by the Municipal Foundation of Culture of Oviedo. Artists invited by Parees this year included: Taxis (Greece), Samir Toumi (Morocco), Mariana Duarte Santos (Portugal), and the Asturian Nieve Sita. The festival also held its Muralism Workshop for Families in the Winter Park on Sunday, October 23rd and also in November, it will extend its program with “DiVeRsAs”, a Community Muralism Workshop with users of CenArte, from the Fundación Vinjoy. The four murals in this edition show Asturian traditions as the hallmark of the festival. The artists, with different styles and cultures, have collaborated with people and groups related to the themes of each work in the mediation processes coordinated by the collective Raposu Roxu. The Parees Festival Taxis, the artistic name of Dimitris Trimintzios, was born in Poland and raised in Gr...
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