Street Art: Italy.

Street Art

One of the cool things about Europe is the traditions of mural painting. For the most part Milan is completely destroyed by the number of random and very ugly tags that cover every building, but every so often when you look it’s punctuated with something really funny and beautiful.

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Balogna: This is my favorite Piece. I think the artist is Spanish and he does "social center" squats all over Europe. The sheer scale is so impressive

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Milan: Just a cool face near Da Vinci’s Last Supper

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Milan: This is another favorite of mine. It’s behind a church on a side street.

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Milan: This artist paints on paper and places it all over the place. Can’t make out the name. It practically looks like a Japanese or Chinese Character but we didn’t this so.

Italy Street Art Photos Set

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I liked this one. It was outside the underground station by the apartment. i saw it every day. It made me smile.

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

3 thoughts on “Street Art: Italy.

  1. That first one is especially amazing, but I liked them all. There’s shit graf and there’s really amazing graf – this just reinforces that for me.

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