Creating a Michael Jackson Mural
The idea and reality of having our urban and public landscape as a place to display, create, and to appreciate art is ingrained in the heart of LA. Aptly labeled—Public Art—allows people the ability to enjoy, view, and appreciate multiple artists and their multi-faceted creations. In this, the plethora of beautiful images, sculptures, buildings, and murals, become unique and a part of a neighborhood, a borough, a city, a state, and a nation.
Most people enjoy and appreciate museums and art galleries; but there’s something very exciting and inexplicably unique in having that museum on the streets, so to speak. When that public “museum” comes to us in the form of public murals, drawings, sculptures, and statues– I often ponder and wonder how much work, effort, and techniques went into creating any particular piece of Public Art.
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What a fabulous video. It’s truly amazing what many of these “street artists” are creating and fortunately many cities now are regarding this as real art rather than graffiti.
Any idea how many hours it took to paint this? I figure not many by watching the video.
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LisaNewton Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 5:02 am
@Kevin, I don’t really know, but like you, but judging by the video, several hours.
I love walking the streets and finding new art. To me, it’s just amazing what these street artists are able to do.
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