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Before / after graffiti
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Honestly top is fucking awesome to look at.
I guarantee some Karen complained about the sexy Alice and that's why it was removed
Notice the "For Lease" sign in the bottom picture. Probably what happened was the tenant who had commissioned the artwork moved out.
I saw something similar to this happen in my hometown. An artist collective had a space they were renting, and they had painted a huge mural on the wall outside. When they moved, a church took over the space, and they painted over the mural.
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Whats interesting is that most people would consider the original to be art, and most people would consider just the cocks to not be art, but are the cocks with the statement of intent art or naw? If just the cocks are not art, and the cocks with the statement are, then do the cocks become art if the artist knows about the art that used to be there? Do they become art if the viewer knows about the cocks and infers the missing statement? That's the interesting question here, because it implies that the piece can be art to one person who knows the context and not art to another person who is only aware of the cocks.
I find that it makes most sense to me to answer "is this and that art"-questions with a yes by default. Is it made by a human with the intent to convey a message? Art. Any other approach always seems to end in questions of taste.
So is marketing material art? Is it art if the message is "give me money" or "buy this product?"
While I don't like that particular art form and choose not to look at it whenever possible, I'd say yes. A lot of art tries to get you to think, feel or do something and I don't see how this is fundamentally different, even though it seems a little sick at first. From the perspective of, say, the graphic designer for the ad campaign, it might very well be art.
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Petition to normalize painting vulvas on walls by learning to draw a vulva and putting it on walls.
In my neighborhood for a while someone (probably a group of people) were sticking vulva drawings everywhere. Building walls, lamp post, mail box, etc. They were all unique and hand drawn too.
That artwork is incredible...
And incredibly arousing.
Especially the eyes
Paint vaginas around potholes to make your city fill them faster
*vulvas
The part you see is the vulva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
Much like the term balls, which are only on the inside, has come to be colloquially used as a synecdoche for "testicles and scrotum", vagina gets used the same way to encompass "vagina and vulva". Besides, the clinical definition of vulva includes the vaginal opening, so it's not exactly a huge leap to the colloquialism.
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Yeah we had some legend turn one of our sewage aeration pipe outlets into a Mario flower, whole city went nuts over it.
Removed within 48hrs because it "wasn't authorized"
Fucking joke.
It's BS. They converted several city owned buildings in the last city I lived in to open face "mural invites." Best thing ever. Every city should try it. Beautiful art all over.
My city has a huge bridge which is designated as graffiti area. Government even gives them paint sometimes. We use to have yearly competitions on it. These days every now and then new work shows up, but it's mostly inactive. That said, people are still allowed to paint there. It looks great what otherwise would be boring gray slab of concrete.
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That was actually cool art too, not those shitty tags with letters you can’t even read
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I wouldn’t want the leftmost painted on the side of my house, the rest are okay tho
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Funny? More like sad.
Where's the street sign in the top one?
Two options
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The extreme angle difference and/or focal length difference in the cameras pushes it out of frame from the photographer's perspective.
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Some chucklefuck stole it.
You can see by the sidewalk lines the the angle is pretty drastically different. That plus a differing focal length would explain it, as well as the dramatically different visual size of the wall.
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Sign probably came around the same time as the paint job during a little gentrification of the neighborhood.
Probably want there but if you zoom in you can see the pipes as well as the crack on the sidewalk line up.
My highschool did something like this. There was a massive memorial dedicated to a African charity event we did. New headmaster came and the fucker god rid of it.
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Banksy's getting a bit more on the nose.
Wanksy
Still not used to a community called "funny" actually being funny. Lemmy is weird.
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Nnnnice cock
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