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[–] [email protected] 129 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Honestly top is fucking awesome to look at.

[–] Son_of_dad 70 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I guarantee some Karen complained about the sexy Alice and that's why it was removed

[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Notice the "For Lease" sign in the bottom picture. Probably what happened was the tenant who had commissioned the artwork moved out.

I saw something similar to this happen in my hometown. An artist collective had a space they were renting, and they had painted a huge mural on the wall outside. When they moved, a church took over the space, and they painted over the mural.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well duh, Jesus hates colors.

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[–] GlockenGold 85 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My home town in Sweden has started commissioning artists to paint murals like those in the top image on a lot of otherwise boring and ugly buildings, and I couldn't be more proud. Really makes the town beautiful and unique.

[–] thonofpy 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

One major reason cities do this is because most fellow spray can wielders will respect the existing work, thus resulting in a nicely painted instead of randomly tagged building.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I really detest dumbasses that put their stupid ass tag on legitimately good art. Nothing screams "desperate, talent-less hack" louder.

[–] Sigh_Bafanada 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some guy recently graffitied my mate's warehouse with the word "CUNT". However, he did it using some outlines and shading, so we couldn't even be mad. Way better than somebody writing their signature in black

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (25 children)

Whats interesting is that most people would consider the original to be art, and most people would consider just the cocks to not be art, but are the cocks with the statement of intent art or naw? If just the cocks are not art, and the cocks with the statement are, then do the cocks become art if the artist knows about the art that used to be there? Do they become art if the viewer knows about the cocks and infers the missing statement? That's the interesting question here, because it implies that the piece can be art to one person who knows the context and not art to another person who is only aware of the cocks.

[–] _number8_ 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

it's art but not aesthetically pleasing art

[–] JokeDeity 9 points 9 months ago

That's the kind I make.

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[–] thonofpy 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I find that it makes most sense to me to answer "is this and that art"-questions with a yes by default. Is it made by a human with the intent to convey a message? Art. Any other approach always seems to end in questions of taste.

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[–] thonofpy 72 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Petition to normalize painting vulvas on walls by learning to draw a vulva and putting it on walls.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In my neighborhood for a while someone (probably a group of people) were sticking vulva drawings everywhere. Building walls, lamp post, mail box, etc. They were all unique and hand drawn too.

vulva sticker on lamp post

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

That artwork is incredible...

And incredibly arousing.

Especially the eyes

[–] CADmonkey 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Paint vaginas around potholes to make your city fill them faster

[–] instamat 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

*vulvas

The part you see is the vulva

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

Much like the term balls, which are only on the inside, has come to be colloquially used as a synecdoche for "testicles and scrotum", vagina gets used the same way to encompass "vagina and vulva". Besides, the clinical definition of vulva includes the vaginal opening, so it's not exactly a huge leap to the colloquialism.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah we had some legend turn one of our sewage aeration pipe outlets into a Mario flower, whole city went nuts over it.

Removed within 48hrs because it "wasn't authorized"

Fucking joke.

[–] NewAgeOldPerson 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's BS. They converted several city owned buildings in the last city I lived in to open face "mural invites." Best thing ever. Every city should try it. Beautiful art all over.

[–] MeanEYE 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My city has a huge bridge which is designated as graffiti area. Government even gives them paint sometimes. We use to have yearly competitions on it. These days every now and then new work shows up, but it's mostly inactive. That said, people are still allowed to paint there. It looks great what otherwise would be boring gray slab of concrete.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Should have painted cocks on it in retribution.

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[–] Grief 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That was actually cool art too, not those shitty tags with letters you can’t even read

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (17 children)

I wouldn’t want the leftmost painted on the side of my house, the rest are okay tho

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (11 children)

tbh yeah

It’s easier to explain to people than why I have some kinky sex game character painted there.

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[–] reddig33 30 points 9 months ago

Funny? More like sad.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Where's the street sign in the top one?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Two options

  1. The extreme angle difference and/or focal length difference in the cameras pushes it out of frame from the photographer's perspective.

  2. Some chucklefuck stole it.

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[–] JokeDeity 10 points 9 months ago

Sign probably came around the same time as the paint job during a little gentrification of the neighborhood.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Probably want there but if you zoom in you can see the pipes as well as the crack on the sidewalk line up.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Top left has some crazy pelvic anatomy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

It's literally on shrooms

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My highschool did something like this. There was a massive memorial dedicated to a African charity event we did. New headmaster came and the fucker god rid of it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Banksy's getting a bit more on the nose.

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[–] HowManyNimons 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Still not used to a community called "funny" actually being funny. Lemmy is weird.

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[–] RIP_Cheems 9 points 9 months ago

Nnnnice cock

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