LONDON MURAL FESTIVAL PART 4

 London Mural Festival part 4

      Walthamstow:

Rosie Woods ..... Wow!
Rimon Guimaraes
Kleiner Shames
      The three murals above are all part of this year's festival and all in Pretoria Avenue - where you can also see these two gems ....
     The pelicans are a genuine Banksy which appeared recently and has since (optimistically) been protected with Perspex. 
     Kestrel and Magnolia Flowers is by Faunagraphic (Sarah Yates). She painted it for the previous London Mural Festival (2020) so it's good to see it hasn't faded or been defaced. 
Tima
      Mural street artists often use brickwork as a grid when mapping out their creations. But, having been pebble dashed, this wall really was a blank canvas. Tima, who is Moroccan, has left the building. Her hoist is still to be collected. 
     "Her works frequently depict women with closed, introspective expressions, seemingly detached from their surroundings" (ChatGPT).
    Tima's new artwork is close to the former Walthamstow home of William Morris, now a splendid gallery/museum honouring him .....
    Morris knew a thing or two about decorating walls and would surely have approved of the many fine murals in this area, including a portrait of him (with his wallpaper in the background)  overlooking the car park.

    More Walthamstow murals; some of which were commissioned for the 2020 London Mural Festival:
  


                                Above, left, is Hunto's 2020 contribution.



     Paternoster Square:
Sr. X
               Also in Paternoster Square ....

     Belgravia:
Hunto
    This mural by Italian-born Hunto on the front staircase of the German Embassy marks the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It pays homage to the many street artists who, over the years, painted messages of freedom on the wall that, from 1961 to 1989,  divided a country.
     The 1.3 kilometre stretch of the wall that remains in Berlin provides the canvas for the East Side Gallery - the world's most famous street art location.
     These are photos I took in 2010 so much has changed since then .....

     ...... but I think the symbolic Brotherly Kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker is still there. It was originally painted by Dimitri Vrubel in 1990 - and restored by him in 2009. The legend in Russian at the top and German at the bottom reads "My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love". 

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