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Chile Travel Report Outdoor mural art |
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First to Valparaiso, home of tons of casual outdoor art "Sin ti soy todo" "Without you I am everything" I love it!
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Valparaiso's outdoor art is monumental in scope: it's everywhere--on walls... |
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in mini-plazas with exquisite tile work... |
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from funky, amateurish efforts... |
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to elegant, finely-executed pieces |
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from expressions of pure whimsy... |
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to overtly political statements. Check out the complexity of the art at this house...
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On the left, the scales of justice, with $ outweighing everything On the right, America's lady of liberty with an armload of munitions |
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And inside the gate... "You can cut all the flowers" "But you can't stop Spring!" |
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...and the bottom panel, more political imagery |
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But an American corporation contributing to community art! How quaint!
How touching! |
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| An interesting
subset, so to speak, of Valparaiso's mural art, is a series of tile
plaques installed on numerous houses on Cerro Bellavista. In the 10
or 12 blocks from Hostel Caracol to San Sebastian (Pablo Neruda's
house), I photographed several dozen of these plaque, most with excerpts
from poems by Garcia Lorca.
The interesting thing is that they were mounted on ordinary houses, usually right near the main door.
If anyone can provide English translations of these, I'd be delighted to post them. |
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"All the roses are white As white as my sadness" |
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Click here to continue in the "Casual Art" gallery |