Lens-Artists PC: Street treats

Oh, how I love this theme. Here is a selection of most memorable or quirkiest pieces from here, Italy, and there, Slovenia.

Art in the street – how marvellous.

Ljubljana 2017.

I’ve always loved it when streets talk and I know the language, but art without words is even more universal and accessible. That said, some words are included as well. You know, like on a blog.

My eyes are always wide open for street art and some pieces can stay with me for eternity. Here are some such with a few funny additions.

Two fairy-tale characters have escaped from a folder with photos for my current PPAC – Photographing Public Art Challenge series where I’m in the middle of the mural town Sant’Angelo. Click on the link above to see the first three posts from there.

There are (at least) two bloggers who consistently, systematically and with much love track down street art and post it so that we can see it too. With two examples that I loved recently, they are scooj at Natural adventures and GerryK at TAB54. But if you are a street art lover, you already knew that.

And now I invite you to my personal subjective street art tour with the best examples that I have encountered so far. I did my best to track down the artist. Next I give the location and the year when I saw it (not when it was done). The treat is on the street.

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  One of the first that struck me in Rome. By BLU. Ostiense, Rome 2015.

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  Just opposite a new one emerged. By Iena Cruz. Ostiense, Rome 2018. For this piece she used the environmental paint that converts smog into clean air.
  

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  By Diamond + Solo. Gazometro, Rome 2018.

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  By Groove. Ostiense, Rome 2019. Sometimes I can’t get over a piece.

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  A random find in Monteverde, Rome. A living P. P. Pasolini carrying a dead one. By Ernest Pignon-Ernest. “La passione non ottiene mai il perdono.” (Passion never receives pardon?)

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  By My Dog Sighs. Trastevere, Rome 2018. He nailed the Italian eye.

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  “Nessuno”, by Axel Void. Rome 2017.

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  By Sam3, Rome 2017.

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  Ostiense, Rome 2017. Rome is spoilt by street art as much as by history and art.

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  Trastevere in Rome is a living museum. 2017.

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  Who knows how this wall looks now. Trastevere 2017.

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  By Neve. Trastevere, Rome 2017.

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  They escaped out of my future post from Sant’Angelo, the fairy-tale town. By Vera Bugatti 2021.

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  Orbetello 2021. The mural nearest to me.

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  And now to Slovenia. Such blue sky! By Miron Milić, Ljubljana Central Market 2016.

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  Ljubljana 2017.

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  Sometimes it feels as if something were put out there especially for me. Ljubljana 2015.

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  By various artists along Trubarjeva St. in front of the Rog factory, Ljubljana 2017. Much of it was destroyed when the City took over this year.

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  By Tina Drčar. Metelkova City, Ljubljana 2017

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  By Ramz. Ljubljana 2021.

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  Pisa 2014.

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  Pisa 2014. (Come on! We just crowd to see your badly built tower!)

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  Orvieto 2014. Probably commercial but I found her very artistic too.

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  Or this fellow. Rather forlorn or is it drunk? Škofja Loka 2018.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Patti at P. A. Moed: Street Art

This day in my blogging history

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  2015: I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
  —Sam Abell

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  2016: Ten times I was waiting and two songs

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  2017: Castagneto Carducci Thursday Doors

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  2018: Pinks and blues