There is art and there is art.
Art can be found anywhere. And often when you strip it down to the basics, it is all the same.
How can this,
which is essentially a painting on the contemporary life of the artist, drawn on a wall, essentially different from this?
We did talk about it on our walk to the Slaughterhouse Hill and reached the conclusion that art is in the eye of the beholder.
Even then, some artists are better than others. They take their surroundings into consideration and create smart art, like this:
Yes, on the first look, it is an austronaut. Now, you have to understand that when the artist started working on the mural, there was ( and still is ) an Audi showroom nearby. And like any self respectable auto showrooms, they did have a neat row of flags in front of the dealership. And of course, given that they also dealt in second had cars which were parked in front of the dealership, the entire space was lit with some very strong lights in the evening.
The artist noticed that the shadow of one of the flags falls perfectly on to the wall. So he painted the autronaut in such a way that he holds a shadow flags with the Audi symbol on it in the night, acting as smart art and a commentary on our wealth focused times.
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