Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Murals


We see so many murals in our daily experiences which often they don’t make the intended impression.  Or perhaps, we just don’t take the time to appreciate the artists intent.  After all, murals have been an art form, perhaps the very first art form created by humans. 

A quite review from Wikipedia tells us that the 1st murals are probably the paintings in a cave in southern France dated around 30,000 BC.  (Just a little before my time.)

We were delighted to find many real fine examples of contemporary murals in Newport, Astoria and Portland.  The “illusionary’ style found in Astoria was really exciting to study and photograph.  Newport and Portland presented fine examples of contemporary street art that ranged from humorous to advertising but all of it well done and respected by the communities.

It was great fun to see and to photograph.


Newport, OR

Newport, OR
Newport, OR

Astoria, OR

Astoria, OR


Portland, OR


3 comments:

  1. I love these. Fascinating to look at. The ones with windows in the scenes are interesting. I really like them all and the way you've photographed them. It must have been funny to come across the pink pig hand puppet beer mural. How big was that?!?! (And I can't quite get my head around that one. Advertising ??? )

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  2. Than you Sharon,

    The pink pig mural is as tall as the building, there was no Photoshop manipulation.

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  3. Whoa! Crazy - truly an eyeful!

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