Urban Art / Street Art - the Odd & the Interesting

At a park around here...someone did an installation back in the 90s. The took saplings...oh, maybe 8 - 10 feet high and inverted them.

They planted the top into the ground and the now inverted root structure became a kind of "Hair" maybe. And they made a line of these up a hillside.


Was actually a very neat installation. over time, weather worn it down and some kids started stealing bits of it...

But it was up for a year or two and looked great...
 

Mexican Muralism​


A movement beginning in the early 1920s in Mexico in which the government commissioned artists to make art that would educate the mostly illiterate population about the country’s history and present a powerful vision of its future. The movement followed the Mexican Revolution. Inspired by the idealism of the Revolution, artists created epic, politically charged public murals that stressed Mexico’s pre-colonial history and culture and that depicted peasants, workers, and people of mixed Indian-European heritage as the heroes who would forge its future. The murals were executed in techniques including fresco, encaustic, mosaic, and relief. José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros were considered the leaders of the Mexican Muralism.


https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/mexican-muralism
 
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