Sunday, September 02, 2007

Graffiti Montmartre


Whether or not this graffiti artist is mocking "the art establishment" or not I do not know, but I do know that I really liked this when I came upon it. Taken in Montmartre - you can tell by the street sloping! - no space is safe from personal expression. You can also notice a poster for Gospel Dream. If you come to Paris and have time, you can see this and other gospel groups singing in some of Paris' famous churches.

16 comments:

  1. A very good eye you have for detail Eric. I never would have noticed the gospel music poster had you not pointed it out.

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  2. I really love this one Eric. The colours, the perspective, the sloping street. Do you know what the building it is painted on is? It looks like a shed or something, but I can't tell.

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  3. That is a really good looking grafiti. Very artistic and perfectly in tune with that neighborhood.

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  4. Fun photo! Hey, that door's sure seen a lot of posters in its day.

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  5. Very clever i thought too!!

    Didn't make your theme day yesterday i must have missed it with the time difference!! There were some great ones to visit this month.

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  6. This is one of the best graffiti masterpieces. Oh that all graffiti was of this caliber. I think I have been by this place sans the artistic endeavor. Johnny

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  7. Ah...this is a super photo, in so many dimensions.
    Thanks so much for sharing it with us!

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  8. That's funny, on our April trip I took nearly the same photo in Montmarte! Of course yours is better than mine. And the gospel poster wasn't there.

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  9. I was showing a friend around Paris last April when we came across this delightful piece of graffiti. There are several more works of "street art" in the area - have you seen those?

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  10. I realize the stick man drawing actually is quite proportionate!

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  11. Has anyone published a photo book of graffiti around Paris? From what you have shown a lot of it is very artistic and I for one wouldn't mind seeing more.

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  12. Cool Photo! I like the subject matter and the colors.

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  13. Are you aware that MENAGER
    the artist of the white man
    has painted his famous creature
    all over Paris for decades now ?
    In the most hidden end alleys and
    very often on old buildings about to be torn down.
    Yes particularly in the 20th Arondissement. Best on a 5 floor wall
    corner of rue Sorbier & Menilmontant
    He cheers up the town

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  14. art is the only word to describe this, in fact I don't know why people call this vandalism, and yeah I have a entire wall behind my house, the entire wall is a real canvas.

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