There is always more. This is true at least for murals at the Chabacano Metro Station in Mexico City, which has provided me with various contest entries for CCC's Street Art Contest. And there is no reason to stop, after all there are many more amazing images covering huge walls, which I'm planing on submitting in subsequent contests. Who knows, by the time I'm done covering them all, there may be new ones popping up. Not that I mind, by any means. Though in that case I may have to rename my series to Chabacano Murals.
A Giant Apricot
What would be a more appropriate image for this particular metro station than something representing the name of it? Chabacano, after all, means apricot in Spanish, and with this huge fruit on its wall there can be no doubt about this station you are at. Thanks to the artist toscoe.baez.
At this point I should mention that each metro station in this city has its own pictogram, created out of respect for the large number of illiterate folks using the urban trains. In this other mural, also a very impressive one, you can even see the apricot, with the three colors of brown, green, and blue, representing the three lines that meet in this location. Though the image of an indigenous face is also well painted, the presence of pedestreans in front of it took a bit away from its impact. For this reason I'm not even going to submit it for the contest. Still, I wanna give a shout-out to the artist gofe_e, who painted it.
A Hundred Mexican Mural Posts!!!
While I am at it, I would like to celebrate my 100th Mexican Mural post! And to celebrate the occasion, I have completed the transition to clickable thumbnails. So feel free to click through the images you find most spectacular, and read through the posts. Keep in mind, they are not exactly chronological, though many of the top most ones are also among the oldest posts. Back then I still used an external site to store my images, and as a result... there may include some black spots. On the upside, lots of posts feature more than just one mural. So enjoy browsing through them!
If you liked this, click on any of the thumbnails to see my previous Mexican Murals posts:
Cool work... 100th post 👍 Keep sharing Street Art from Mexico (it's seems endless and it's perfect like that 😀).
Thanks for sharing these pics on The StreetArt Community.
Haha, thank you! True, it pretty much is endless. I was thinking that I could probably look around on the net for the "biggest, vastest, best" murals, which just may be two neighborhoods away. But then all I have to do is walk around the next corner and come across another "lesser" one by surprise.
Beautiful, and what a good idea to provide a visual representation for the names of the stations for illiterate folks. I notice the artist put a little Instagram tag on the piece, very smart, and a sign of modern times.
Hahaha, yes indeed! That Instagram logo says a lot... about sharing art in our times. But the pictograms are quite interesting, actually. In fact, they may even deserve their own post.
Hace unos días leí que el primer muralista famoso fue Diego Rivera. creo que hizo un mural de las catrinas o algo así. los que tu nos muestras son muy buenos.
Gracias, @carolinacardoza ! Si, hay muchos murales en estos rumbos. Por eso quiero enseñar los mejores... o los que me gustan más. Pero los murales de las Catrinas... eso no fue José Guadalupe Posada? Claro, Rivera también utilizó este imagen frecuentemente. Ya es una de las caracteres más típicos de México. De dónde eres tú, y se puede encontrar muchos murales lindos por ahí?