Street art is a strictly visual art developed in public spaces (or in other words, “in the streets”). The term usually refers to unauthorized art, non-compliant with government sponsored initiatives. (General definition of Street Art)
Graffiti
Inscription or drawing, often satirical or caricatural in character, drawn in Antiquity on objects or monuments. (Among the most revealing are the political inscriptions from Pompeii, the accounts on the shards of the Graufesenque, etc.) (Dictionary definition)
Steve Mc Queen in Rouen
"Lonely" Glad to have photographed it before the building was renovated.
Highlighting a commercial blind
"On the spot or to take away?" Ephemeral piece of art because this store often changes its themes. Great.
Would Joan of Arc a.k.a "La Pucelle"(The Virgin) have appreciated this gentleman to smoke ?!?
The park often changes faces on Lacroix Island
On the other side of the park.
Still in the park, change of scenery
"Long live the authors !" Bookshop near Jeanne d'Arc Street -Rouen
I love "Street Art", "Graffiti", their ephemeral side. Some of the "paintings" that I had the chance to photograph no longer exist, replaced by others or erased by the town hall. Too bad, because it is a real art of which I like certain styles more or less.
On the other hand, hats off to these artists who know how to give life to their works with this apparent ease, to accept that their work disappears in favor of other artists.
I find it great that Rouen puts forward this noble Art with Rouen Impressionned and other manifestations that allow Rouen Street Art to live ... and perhaps live from it ...
Livet...in République street
At work for a piece of Art
Artists' Day -République street - Rouen-
"Do not disturb the artist !"
Freedom for the artists, I admire their audacity and ease in front of the spectators.
Whether we like it or not, we can only admire!
I adore.
Yesterday a sad gray building, today a flamboyant work of art. Very successful.
Auguste Houzeau street - Rouen right bank
Auguste Houzeau street
On the right bank
Final touches at the top
Successful lifting
Impressive
Harmonious
Giant graffiti
Classy shed
Makeover
"Street Art" in the heart of Lacroix Island.
What a pity that some come and spoil the work by tagging anything on it but hey, it's an ephemeral art, I have no doubt that a new work of art will soon take place.
To be continued ...
Greedy Lacroix island
There is the Artist ...and the others...
"Protective bird"
The protector of abandoned animals of the Rouen SPA ( Animal Welfare Society)...
I like the symbol
"We are all immigrants , only the birthplace is changing"
When garage doors are adorned with tags...
"Muddle"
Art 3.0
One way like any other to remember where one lives ...
Does he look like someone you might know?
I find him a little "something" of a Beatles ... of an actor... of a cousin ...
Universal and unique. The artist is truly gifted.
"Read slowly at a time when we are told about fast reading and diagonal reading." - Jean Prior / The Masters of Positive Thinking -
Rest'O'Rock 15, Thomas Corneille street 76000 Rouen
"Don't bother the cook, please !!!! "
On a wall in Lacroix Island
A shop blind in Augustins' street
"Caravan" advert
"The caravan passes... the embittered remain." - Francis Blanche -
"Life goes by, fast caravan! Stop your mount and try to be happy." -Omar Khayyam-
"One can penetrate the soul and heart of men without looking for them on the liners, in the lightning trains and in the slow caravans." -Joseph Kessel-
Richard Lallemant street
Richard-Gontran Conteray called Lallemant, born December 18, 1725 in Rouen where he died April 3, 1807, is a French printer-bookseller based in Rouen. Considering his job, I have no doubt that he would have appreciated this way of expression which adorns the walls of the city and particularly its street.
He took the name "Lallemant" because his family was of German origin. Creator in his time, I have no doubt that he would have liked to lay out certain urban works which litter the walls of Rouen to make them known to the people .
"The language of drawing offers infinite possibilities, which is rare." -Frédéric Pajak / Release Books -
"The main result of compulsory education: graffiti on public monuments." - Jean Dutourd -
"Drawing suspends thought." -Jacques Herzog -
"It took me my whole life to know how to draw like a child." - Pablo Picasso -
"Idea to make a career as a conceptual artist: sign children's drawings." - Roland Topor -
"Every man has, has had or will need a drawing to get his message heard." -Helbé -
"The street of Fossés Louis VIII"
Former main street of the Charity.
In the year 1200, the ditches of the city wall occupied the axis formed by this street. The name of this route recalls the cession of the rear ditches by Louis VIII in 1224.
"To breathe one's last? Okay, but who to?" -Serge Gainsbourg -
"I know my limits. That's why I'm going beyond that." -Serge Gainsbourg -
"Drawing is not a form, it is the way to see a form." -Edgar Degas -
"Arsins' street"
"Art is the shortest path from man to man. " - by André Malraux-
"The work of art is not the reflection, the image of the world; but it is at the image of the world. " -Eugene Ionesco-
"What impresses us in a work of art is rarely the work itself, but the idea that others get of it, and that is why its commercial value undergoes enormous changes. " -Gustave Le Bon-
"Victor Hugo street"
Proof that sometimes you have to have your head in the sky ... I see that street artists are also stuntmen when they manage to draw in such improbable places. Spots that I imagine also prohibited but that is surely not what stops them ... they have the taste of the risk for their work.
"Lacroix Island - 25 Mars 2019"
" In the park "
"Graffiti is one of the few ways you can do it when you have almost nothing. And even if you can't cure poverty in this world with an image, at least you can make someone smile while they pee." -Banksy-
"There is nothing more dangerous than a person convinced that he is going to make the world a better place." -Bansky-
"The greatest crimes are not committed by those who break the rules but by people who obey orders. They are the ones who drop bombs and massacre villages." -Bansky-
"At the S.P.A"
"Sometimes the state of the world disgusts me to such an extent that I find it hard to finish my second piece of apple pie." -Bansky-
"As far as I'm concerned, the only thing worth looking at in most museums is the visual arts students." -Bansky-
"An original thought is well worth a thousand quotes." -Bansky-
"Today you don't have to go to university, walk around with your portfolio, go licking at galleries and their swarms of pretentious, no need to sleep with someone influential either. All you need is a few ideas and a broadband connection. For the first time, the bourgeois world of art belongs to the people. It's about doing something about it." -Bansky-
"What I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all bright, creative and ambitious young people into its fold, leaving modern art at the mercy of slow, self-centered brains." -Bansky-
The link below to discover the author of this mural on the wall of the s.n.p.a.
"On the sheds"
From Lacroix island, I see on the sheds of the low Jacques Anquetil quays, tags, graffiti of people who dare, some gifted, inspired, others less. I would be quite incapable of realizing a quarter of the less inspired works. so I shut up, watch and admire in some cases. I am always impressed to see the inaccessible places on which they exercise their talent. It often makes me dizzy.
To wonder if these artists are human beings!
"In this world nothing is more mundane than people who have talent and who do not meet success. Get out of your house before you find a good reason to stay locked up." -Bansky-
"There are four basic human needs: eating, sleeping, kissing and revenge." -Bansky-
"I remembered a graffiti seen on a wall: In the face of general indifference, tomorrow is cancelled." -Listen to the rain /Michèle Lesbre -
"Graffitis: the walls have no ears, but a memory." -Sylvain Tesson/ Aphorisms under the moon and other wild thoughts
"The main result of compulsory education: graffiti on public monuments." Jean Dutourd/ Notebook of an emigrant
"A wall is a formidable weapon. This is one of the most dangerous you can hit someone with." -Banksy-
"On breeze blocks"
His page, his works below
I can't wait for Dhoa to come back and do a mural at the Lacroix Island Park.
"Mimic me !"
The tunnel takes on water ...
Passing through this tunnel which goes from the Corneille bridge to the République street was practical but still sad, between these pale walls and unfortunate graffiti . Young artists have created a maritime fresco that has made the passage pleasant to cross. I took the opportunity to take pictures of it before it is degraded .... because one shouldn't dream ... there will always be "smart kids" to damage the work of others ... .
I am dumbfounded!
"Music... is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what daydreaming is to thought, what fluid is to liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves." -Victor Hugo-
How many years will it take for the slave before he has his freedom, how long is a soldier brave before he dies forgotten? How many seas will cross the dove before we live in peace?" -Richard Anthony-
"The lighthouse illuminates the seas. The blush illuminates the girls." -Alphonse Allais-
"Between the four seas, all men are brothers." -Vietnamese proverb-
"Aren't we, like the bottom of the seas, populated by unusual monsters?" -Henri Bosco-
"Running beyond the seas means changing the climate, but not changing your heart." -Horace-
"Water glasses have the same passions as the oceans." -Victor Hugo-
"You can see yourself either as a wave in the ocean or as the ocean itself." -Oprah Winfrey-
"We realize that what we do is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop didn't exist in the ocean, it would be missing." -Mother Teresa-
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