Keep an eye out for "art" in the parks

[salsabike]

One of my favorite street art sites: http://www.streetartutopia.com/

[rebeccaC]

nice site i bookmarked it....thanks

a couple of my favorites....for a global view

the street spot has some interesting posts and great list of links

and 50mm for my local inspiration

[Jolt]

What was she thinking? It takes some very poor judgment to graffiti in national parks to begin with, let alone post the evidence online! I hope she is made to clean it up...while it may be "art", it is certainly not in the appropriate place. Who wants to see that kind of thing in what is supposed to be a natural environment? I would even be irritated if I saw something like the chalk work somebody upthread described in Glacier NP...I know it is temporary but it spoils the wilderness atmosphere IMHO. It would be a different story in a city park.

[smilingcat]

leaving a mark in the wilderness is just not acceptable. No matter what is said or how its done. IT IS SIMPLY VERY WRONG!

Just because someone call it an art doesn't make it so.

Who wants to see that kind of thing in what is supposed to be a natural environment? I would even be irritated if I saw something like the chalk work somebody upthread described in Glacier NP...I know it is temporary but it spoils the wilderness atmosphere IMHO.

+1 for jolt.

[Helene2013]

If you want to do graffitis, why don't you do it on your own walls at home? Not that I don't like it, but not everywhere, and at any cost. Even if it is art, it can be seen as "pollution". True some are beautifully done.

Montreal spent 3.5M$ to clean up graffitis last year. It is illegal to do any but still and fines are hefty if caught but people still do it.

Montréal has decided to invest in the creation of artistic murals, in collaboration with several different partners. 73 murals have been created since 2007 by Montréal artists, under the initiative of the Propreté (cleanliness) division, the service in charge of beautifying the city. Most have been in collaboration with the organization Mu.

[rebeccaC]

Montréal has decided to invest in the creation of artistic murals, in collaboration with several different partners. 73 murals have been created since 2007 by Montréal artists, under the initiative of the Propreté (cleanliness) division, the service in charge of beautifying the city. Most have been in collaboration with the organization Mu.

Helene Fleuty who did some of the remarkable trompe-l'oeil murals in Quebec did some for MU in Montreal. The Fresque des Quebecois and Petit-Champlain murals in Vieux-Quebec are two of my all time favorites.

[salsabike]

I love artistic murals that are created with public and government support. There are also countries where extraordinary pieces of street art serve as vehicles for public protest and political speech where these things cannot otherwise occur without enormous risk---conditions that most of us have never had to contend with. Egypt in recent years and Brazil just before the World Cup are two places that come to mind, although there are many more. I won't post the images here but if you google those country names and "graffiti", you will see hugely compelling, beautiful, painful commentary on how people are living.

When I think of those things in contrast to the self-indulgent acts of Casey Nocket, it makes me more than a little sick.