The piece of art for this weeks StreetArt Contest, I´ve found on my first days here in Lagos, Portugal. It´s from an portuguese artist called Add Fuel whos bourgeois name is Diogo Machado.
Since a few years he is focused on symmetrical patterning and tessellations. The painting I´m showing you also reminds at Azulejos, the famous portuguese tiles, used for the outside and inside walls of houses.
This one is so huge that I had trouble getting it on the photo so I took a few shots from different angles.
Wow, that´s a very creative approach towards Azulejos :) I love the traditional ones but this one is also very impressive. Great shots.
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I do love them as well. Not that many here in Lagos but I Lisbon I heard. Thanks for the tip 😁
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Beautiful work done by Add Fuel... he came to Montreal a few years ago :
We can recognize the style 😀
Yes, almost identical. Funny, for my last two entries you had a photo as well. Let’s see if you have one next week as well. 😁
Always great work with Add Fuel... Thanks for sharing these pics on The StreetArt Community.
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This is really awesome!
Indeed. Most of it is real art, not graffiti. I rarely see things like this.
Graffiti is real art :) and this is graffiti, it's art but on a different canvas 😁 (found that on the internet once and liked it)
It depends on the viewpoint. It is often just pure vandalism. Usually when people paint (write) meaningless and/or unreadable characters. Especially when they do it unathorizedly on private buildings. That is just/only reduces the value of the buildings, and the owners of the buildings have to remove it, and that costs money for them. Doing this kind of vandalism is also illegal on many places of the world.
We ain't talking about that tho are we?
The picture is a "street art" form of art called graffiti, as you say it can be bad and you're right, that's vandalism!
What we have here tho it's not, and you can call it art or however you want, still a form of graffiti is.
This is my point :)
Also without all that vandalism we wouldn't have these type of legalized art, so I guess something good can actually come out of vandalism!
Also probably 70-80% of the street artists that do these beautiful legal walls were "vandals" in their teens.
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Yes. A real street art is not vandalism. It even adds value to the buildings. For example the building in this post. It became very unique and beautiful with this texture.
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Exactly this! 😁
Oh thank you, very kind of you!
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Very interesting work. I find it annoying when I see great works in narrow places and can't get an angle to take a few shots! 😂
haha me too. I should have taken a panoramic shot...I need to go there again :)
Reading lagos I immediately thought Nigeria 😅
These look so beautiful, like tiles.
haha, you´re not the first one. I like this as it attracts more people.
That's a plus then.