(English) Street art in Valencia : Is it art ?? Good question ! (Huffingtonpost)

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(English) Street art in Valencia : Is it art ?? Good question ! (Huffingtonpost)

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I recently discovered street art. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have been looking at it for years but I never saw it or recognized it for what it really is. In my experience it is exciting original art worthy of the type of attention we give to other works in galleries and museums. And on occasion, it demands even greater attention through images that shock, delight, question or exalt. It’s been around only a brief period of time, from sometime in the 1970s, but I believe its power and influences are built upon the very foundations of the visual arts.

I look at these works and so many things come to mind. They seem to resonate with the energy of a glorious history including the great artists who created the cave paintings in France some 35,000 years ago; the Spanish artist and architect Gaudí with his melting ice cream houses; and the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna (see image below). If you haven’t seen this astonishing series of buildings then you haven’t lived! They were imagined and then brought into the amazing light of reality by the artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser in order to remind everyone of humanity, color, and life in the bleak, black and white times of post war Austria in the 1950’s. These buildings share the same world with Street Art and produce many of the same responses. I was introduced to this architectural wonder by a very proud Austrian taxi driver who insisted on diverting our route to Vienna airport to take in this sight. He was absolutely right too. It is quite life changing. And there was no extra charge.

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