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“Pic of the Week”, November 3, 2017: Famine Memorial, Dublin
A friend once told me that good public art should capture your attention and “get you in the gut”. That’s certainly true of the Famine statues on Custom House Quay in Dublin’s modernized Docklands. These gaunt figures commemorate the Great Potato Famine of the mid-19th century (1845 – 1847), referred to as An Gorta Mór –“the great hunger”. The location is historic as it was the site of the first voyage of the famine exodus on the ship Perseverance. The work is entitled “Famine” and was presented to the People of Ireland by Norma Smurfit in 1997.
During the great famine approximately 1 million Irish people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, reducing the island’s population by about 25%. …
Nov 2, 2017
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Graffitimundo: Graffiti as Street Art, Buenos Aires
During our first day in Buenos Aires, we took a guided tour of its street art that was run by Graffitimundo, a non-profit organization that promotes street art and artists in this city. It was a very nice introduction to the the Argentine capital and to its very popular street art.
During my travels I’ve noticed more and more graffiti in major cities, and over the past decade especially there has been evolution of crude graffiti into art that’s often extremely interesting and of high quality. It grabs your attention and makes you stop and study it, as good art should. This is also true of Buenos Aires where street art began blossoming around the time of the financial crisis …
Tagged Buenos Aires, graffiti, Graffitimundo, street art
