Chewing Gum Art by Ben Wilson

Trash to Art... Ben Wilson is an amazing environmental artist who paints on discarded chewing gum in London. His aim is to make us conscious of our impact on the environment and his art calls upon us to care more about this environment! I love it!

A lot more can be seen here

Street Art in Munich

As we crossed the street from the Maximilianeum, the Bavarian Parliament building, to head towards the Englischer Gardens, we went through a tunnel and out in the gardens that line the Isar river.

It was a surprise to find those beautiful street art paintings, here’s a few pictures:

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Street Art in action

While walking to the town festivities today, we saw street artists at work... the town's collection is growing and that's simply great.

Vitry famous for its street art, come visit!

I wanted to point out an article on Le Parisien Val de Marne on my town Vitry as a renowned street art town...

Article Here...

In brief, you will see in Vitry more than 400 paintings, from around 50 artists who come from all over Europe to paint in Vitry and even from South America... Aren't we a privileged bunch of people here?

I'm on my way to the town's annual Lilac Festival - yesterday we had Michel Fugain, French singer, who gave a concert in the park behind my house and the night ended by fabulous fireworks...  Today we have local organisations in the park showcasing their work and selling stuff and food to fund their activities. It's a great way to see what's going on in different areas of the town - helping the poor, dance or music activities, sewing, children's activities etc. etc. It all ends by a parade in the afternoon... that will be in another post!

Winter holidays, go!

Our kids are on holidays, yes in France it comes every six weeks or so. Anyway they are on "winter holidays" until February 28. France is divided in three zones for school holidays and we in Paris and Ile de France are in zone 3. Here's a map with the zones...
Having my transcription and translation business and working at home is very convenient when holidays come by... even when your kids are older (mine 16 and 19), they do appreciate to have someone to take care of them. So during my break, we took a little walk in our town... and found some new street art paintings...

A bit further we found a real cat on a wall...

Street Art in Vitry, some more photos

Today I have decided to share some more street art photos we took in our town, Vitry (France).

This house stands opposite our music school. It has truly beautiful colors. One can read the message written : "L'art est dans l'air, inspire", which means "Art is in the air, breathe". Next to this building is a small house with a toucan.

This is what the house looked like before - it's a copy from Google Maps

 

Street Art in Vitry, France

Walking around in the main streets of Vitry, I’m happy to admire street art exhibits by street artists from different countries such as C215, PixelPancho, and Joseph Loughborough, Ben Slow. All this set up by Vitry Jam – on their site one can see the artwork by different artists and there is a “shop page”. The paintings are very often drawn on mail boxes or walls. 

Vitry is a town that can be easily reached coming from Paris - it's a 15 minutes bus ride from the metro Porte de Choisy or two train stations away from Bibliothèque François Mitterrand by RER C line. We also have a contemporary art museum called the MACVAL (website in English available).

 

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