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On the vibrant hills of Barcelona, this street portrait reveals the emotional power of urban art. The strong contrasts, intense gaze, and golden smile bring the wall to life, reflecting the city’s boundless creative spirit. Between shadow and light, this mural captures the raw and authentic soul of Barcelona’s streets.
Barcelona 15/4/2014 (day 2)
Seen on my way to work down Carrer del Comte D'Urgell, Ronda de Sant Pau and Avinguda del Paral·lel....
At the base of the final set of stairs & escalator leading to Gaudi's designed Parc Guell,is this landing of rather bold political urban art, this is just a slice of urban Barcelona.
Typical street art that adorns the front doors of small stores, studios and homes in the older sections of Barcelona.
Unshakeably inspiring.
For those who don't know the history I tell you that the street art seen in the photo is based on the famous USA "Rosie the Riveter" ad campaign from World War 11 where women were encouraged to work in the munitions factory because of a shortage of men who had been sent to war.
I also like the slogan associated with the ad: WE CAN DO IT!
I love this street art and it's one of my all time favorites in Barcelona. The older I get the more nostalgic I seem to be.
A photo is only as good as it subjects and I thought the pedestrian walking past the persiana typified the confidence and inspiration the ad suggested.
This shot summerizes that this electrifying city of Barcelona is filled with various forms of street art, in addition to the cutting edge movement in food and music.
Barcelona 15/4/2014 (day 2)
Seen on my way to work down Carrer del Comte D'Urgell, Ronda de Sant Pau and Avinguda del Paral·lel....
Barcelona 15/4/2014 (day 2)
Seen on my way to work down Carrer del Comte D'Urgell, Ronda de Sant Pau and Avinguda del Paral·lel....
A few blocks from the metro line, and a long uphill walk, there is the last set of stairs or an escalator to take the numerous daily tourist to Gaudi's famed Park Guell. One will find some generic street art to amazing, others with a strong statement towards tourist ! We are intruding in their quaint section within the hills of Barcelona!
Barcelona 15/4/2014 (day 2)
Seen on my way to work down Carrer del Comte D'Urgell, Ronda de Sant Pau and Avinguda del Paral·lel....
Barcelona 15/4/2014 (day 2)
Seen on my way to work down Carrer del Comte D'Urgell, Ronda de Sant Pau and Avinguda del Paral·lel....
Last month I received an email from Stuart that runs Subism inviting me to get part in a beautiful project called Memories Subism that is an art book and all its profits are going to the Maggie´s carring cancer center. The book will tell 10 short stories about people who had to fight against cancer and I made this illustration for one of those stories. I´m glad to get involved, thanks Stu!
Fun front dor art to this Barcelona apartment buiding. *notice the Catalan busker style dancers in the right corner
JARDINS DE LES TRES XEMENEIES IMPRESSIONS IN A CONCRETE GARDEN AV. DE PARAL·LEL, 49 BARCELONA CATALONIA
You have to take the term “gardens” in its official name with a pinch of salt when you first see the concrete flatness of this Barcelona park, though the free art on its walls changes as regularly as any city gallery, making it a worthwhile stop on your route. An ex-industrial site, the shimmering haze of its birches nevertheless perfectly counterpoints the aesthetic of heavy machinery and bright graffiti.
Such a hardwearing urban veneer makes it ideal not just as a regular concert venue but also for the skateboarding and tagging communities, both local and out-of-town. While taking photos here, the four artists who I found working on the mural walls had come down from Newcastle, UK. Moscrop had been here the summer before and returned with his mates Eli, Nesbit and Si (Lag) this year. Was this the modern equivalent of the way, a century ago, northern impressionists would come down on painting holidays, drawn by Spain’s exceptional light? The hardness in the light does seem to bring out the brilliance in colours.
It’s also a popular skateboarding site. A German friend, while holidaying in Barcelona with her teenage son last year, would drop him off at this park every day so she wouldn’t have to drag a sullen adolescent around the galleries and sights she was keen to see. It was an arrangement that worked for them both.
The three chimneys dominate the space. They are what remains of a power generation plant that used to be known as La Canadenca (The Canadian) despite being founded by an American. When electrical power was in its infancy at the turn of the twentieth century, it seemed like too risky a venture to attract many conservative Catalan investors.
So an American entrepreneur named Frederick Stark Pearson was persuaded to set up the Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company Limited in 1911. The parent company then spawned a host of subsidiaries to develop the trams, rail network, two large dams and a canal system, power generation and water supply in Barcelona. By 1914 it was the largest electricity supplier in Europe and the seventh-largest in the world. The company was at the centre of a strike in 1919 that developed into a Catalonia-wide general strike, which the workers of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT union eventually won.
Pearson himself perished when the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk in 1915. After the Spanish Civil War, the company continued to expand for a short time under Franco, but his decree, prohibiting the exit of capital from Spain meant its foreign shareholders could not be paid and proved the company’s death knell.
You can see more Barcelona street art at bombcelona (in Spanish).
Jardins de les Tres Xemeneies, Av. de Paral·lel, 49