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Le Mur is a contemporary urban art spot in rue Oberkampf (11eme arrondissement) in Paris, France.. It is the initial spot of the street art movement in Paris in April 2000. Le Mur was at this time an advertising billboard was firstly hijacked by artist Hephaestus in spring 2000.
Urban art combines street art, guerrilla art, and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or present urban lifestyle. Because the urban arts are characterized by existing in the public space, they are often viewed as vandalism and destruction of private property.
Paris is getting a colorful splash of Olympic creative spirit with nearly 30 vibrant street art pieces that have popped up on bustling metro station walls, a large billboard at the airport and in ...
Blek began his artwork in 1981, painting stencils of rats on the walls of Paris streets. He described the rat as "the only free animal in the city", [4] and one which "spreads the plague everywhere, just like street art". [5] His name originates from the comic book Blek le Roc, using "rat" as an anagram for "art". [3]
In the middle of the 19th century, the centre of Paris was viewed as overcrowded, dark, dangerous, and unhealthy. In 1845, the French social reformer Victor Considerant wrote: "Paris is an immense workshop of putrefaction, where misery, pestilence and sickness work in concert, where sunlight and air rarely penetrate.
The UX (short for Urban eXperiment) is an underground organization of Urban explorers that improves hidden corners of Paris.Their work includes restoring the Panthéon clock, [1] building a cinema — complete with a bar and a restaurant — in a section of the Paris Catacombs underneath the Trocadéro, restoring medieval crypts, and staging plays and readings in monuments after dark.
Since his first show in 2013 at the parisian gallery Le Cabinet d'Amateur, [6] Codex Urbanus has shown his work worldwide. In September 2014 he was part of the Dalí Fait le Mur group show [7] at the Espace Dalí in Paris, and he was the only live painter ever invited for a solo show in May 2016 at the French Musée national Gustave Moreau in Paris.
The street is not a blank canvas for the street artist. It has a character, a use, a history, a texture, a shape. Street art, as well as broader urban art, transforms the street or opens the dialogue. Justin Armstrong states graffiti is identified as an aesthetic occupation of spaces, whereas urban street art repurposes them. [45]