Challenging Authority
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For once the satire is on the mark, in this profoundly uncomfortable image. With its Lolita imagery and haunting overtures of Vatican-sanctioned abuse, this is street art satire at its most powerful and discomforting. If only all graffiti had this much savage wit.
Rome’s Dark Side
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Traditionally nightmarish figure-painting collides with the street scene to give us the twisted vision on display above. Two skull-monsters pose along a brick wall, as if waiting for an unwary traveller to plunge their knife into. Richly visual and boldly innovative, this is what industrial wasteland graffiti should be all about.
Devotional Street Art
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Who said street art can’t be devotional? The above portrait of the newly-arrived Pope Francis is remarkable in its piety, portraying the leader of the Church in a profoundly realistic, touching light. As warm riposte to the abuse-haunted image above, it takes some beating.
A Picture Worth 1,000 Words
credit: Denis Bocquet
It looks like a shot from a touching animation, a whole story summed up in a single, delightful image. One of the wonders of Rome street art is the small niches of beauty you can find among the swirly lettering and uncertain satire: niches such as this one.
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