Street Art

[Ephilant]

Bleeps.gr is one of the many street artists making a bit of a name for himself. He uses the run down, crumbling buildings a walls anywhere in Greece to post social comment with a difference. Here are a few examples:


http://bleeps.gr/main/wp-content/themes/bleepsgr/thumb.php?src=main/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ecstasy.jpg&w=460&h=&zc=1&q=90
Divine Ecstasy of the Western Empire


http://bleeps.gr/main/wp-content/themes/bleepsgr/thumb.php?src=main/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG_0134-Copy-Copy.jpg&w=460&h=&zc=1&q=90
Authority gives you Freedom of Speech"

http://bleeps.gr/main/wp-content/themes/bleepsgr/thumb.php?src=main/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMF-Copy.jpg&w=460&h=&zc=1&q=90

I've seen similar artistic comments on todays world in Valentia and Madrid, years ago in Berlin (just after the unification), London, Paris, and in the early seventies in Havanna, which was an absolutely amazing, and much encouraged form of expression. Anything like it happening in Ireland?

http://bleeps.gr/background_intro.jpg

[musashi]

I like the 'Devine Ecstacy', a masturbating nun to the tune of dollars and cents with just a hint of hypocritical censorship on a Grecian building.

http://bleeps.gr/main/wp-content/themes/bleepsgr/thumb.php?src=main/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ecstasy.jpg&w=460&h=&zc=1&q=90

[Ephilant]

check him out here http://bleeps.gr. These are pictures made by others of his work.

[eamo]

. Anything like it happening in Ireland?



Not that I can see, not in Dublin anyway. I think we are waiting for St.Bono to do something artistic for us.

[Dr. FIVE]

Arab spring threw up so great stuff, Spain too.

[Dr. FIVE]

Due to the cuts DCC claim they can only remove some of the graffiti about the place. The criteria being anything political go first.

[eamo]

Due to the cuts DCC claim they can only remove some of the graffiti about the place. The criteria being anything political go first.

I have not seen much, if any, political/artistic street art.

[Dr. FIVE]

https://distilleryimage9.s3.amazonaws.com/f8b04be6a1cc11e192e91231381b3d7a_7.jpg

[Ephilant]

http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.3767249.4461/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg

FF Election train ready to leave.
Done by Catblack, one of the brood, when still living in Ireland.

[C. Flower]

Due to the cuts DCC claim they can only remove some of the graffiti about the place. The criteria being anything political go first.

Rows in Limerick over who is the vandal - world eminent graffitisti or the local businessman who keeps painting out their work in matt grey.

[Ephilant]

Look what this thread is doing to me.
Who said there was nothing much going street art wise in Ireland?

Check these guys out: http://irishstreetart.com/

From my days in Ireland I remember a young man Finbar McHugh who used to terrorise derelict walls in Galway City. This little thread made me look him up again.
These days Finbar works with Galway City Council who give him walls, which he then uses to teach kids how to graffiti properly. And suddenly it's a social project instead of a bunch of little vandals "destroying the city"...