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Millo’s Playful Murals Imagine Architecture as a Playground

In 2014, Italian artist Millo won a competition that enabled him paint 13 multi-story murals in Turin. His work now fills the walls of the small, northern Italian city, inviting playful scenarios into the mundane humdrum of urban life. Millo's murals center around vague, childlike characters, whom he renders in the form of line drawings without many distinguishing features. The lack of detail allows viewers to imagine themselves as these quirky figures, who tower over buildings and seem to use the city as their playground. It's as if the kids got a chance to run things while the adults were away.

In 2014, Italian artist Millo won a competition that enabled him paint 13 multi-story murals in Turin. His work now fills the walls of the small, northern Italian city, inviting playful scenarios into the mundane humdrum of urban life. Millo’s murals center around vague, childlike characters, whom he renders in the form of line drawings without many distinguishing features. The lack of detail allows viewers to imagine themselves as these quirky figures, who tower over buildings and seem to use the city as their playground. It’s as if the kids got a chance to run things while the adults were away.

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Millo, mural, street art

ALI, Arthur-Louis Ignoré, street art

November 16, 2015

French street artist Arthur-Louis Ignoré, aka ALI, has found a unique way to embellish his surroundings. Using resilient materials that can last for a few months, he paints mandalas and ornaments on walls, streets, sidewalks, buildings and just about anywhere else he can reach. ALI is not interested in making sketches, and prefers to let his subconscious take over during the creative process. To him, randomness is key. The end result is a spontaneous and meticulous body of work that explores pattern making through ornamentation.

Grip Face’s Graphical, Humorous Object-Based Art

graphic art, Grip Face, mural

July 20, 2018

Grip Face’s graphical, object-based art has appeared in museums and galleries and on walls and everyday objects across the globe. The artist works with both familiar and abstract imagery in his pieces, which take notes from comic book art and whatever structure they’re painted on. Much of the work, event in its most unsettling alterations of its human subjects, is teeming with humor.

Johannes Mundinger Evokes Impressionism in His Colorful Murals

Impressionism, Johannes Mundinger, street art

February 23, 2016

Berlin, Germany based artist Johannes Mundinger's murals bring the unusual beauty of Impressionist painting onto the street and other unlikely, usually degraded places. Inspired by the 19th century movement, Mundinger aims to convey feelings of atmosphere, colors and even smells from the real world subject matter that his images are based upon, describing his work as "mainly abstract, but it contains figurative elements and includes shapes that hint to existing things."

Kent Twitchell Honors Ed Ruscha in “The Man Who Paints Giants”

Ed Ruscha, Kent Twitchell, street art

April 4, 2016

In the late 1970s, celebrated muralist Kent Twitchell began his famous artists series, featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 37, starting with notable Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha. Measuring 70 feet tall on the side of a downtown building, Twitchell's full-length portrait of the artist in a red silk shirt and pleated slacks took almost 9 years to complete because it was self-funded and there were other projects that came to him during that time. Why did he choose Ruscha as his first artist? "It was a gut decision," he says. "He was and is unique and seemed to characterize the American Individualist to me as McQueen did in the film world."

Millo’s Playful Murals Imagine Architecture as a Playground

Arthur-Louis Ignoré Paints Mandalas Anywhere His Brush Can Reach

Grip Face’s Graphical, Humorous Object-Based Art

Johannes Mundinger Evokes Impressionism in His Colorful Murals

Kent Twitchell Honors Ed Ruscha in “The Man Who Paints Giants”

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