Stencil graffiti on street corner.
"Psi psani" roughly translated - doggish doggerel.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Psi Psani Graffiti
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- Julia
- Prague, Czechia
- If I'm not working or hanging out with our 10 year old while a bouncy 5 year old dances around us, there's a good chance I'll be hammering away on our piano, reading a book or trying to sketch. I live in Prague, Czech Republic and hail from the U.S. South.
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5 comments:
My favorite one, which was still in tact when I last walked to your flat, is "Banana Children on the Rice" :) NO idea what it means, but it fascinates me none the less! It's on the wall by the tall air vent tower. Is that where the rest of them are from?
Once graffiti was impulse art. Now it's preconceived. Not only is it necessary to carry paint but also stencils. Soon artists will be toting floodlights for nighttime work and compressors to drive spray-guns. Do the Czech authorities tolerate it? Or is there a van, as here, labelled Anti-Graffiti Patrol? Not only have I never seen a graffiti artist at work, I've never seen what techniques the Eraser Mob use.
Kelly, I'll have to look for Banana Children, I don't think I've ever seen it! These come from Kampa island and a wall on Moravska.
BB, it depends on the section of Prague that you're in - Prague 1 cleans up graffiti faster than the other, less touristy areas (it also cleans up dog poop fast, neither impress tourists much). Other areas are slower to scrub. And then there is Kampa and the Lennon wall where graffiti is definitely allowed.
I've never seen an Eraser Mob either - but I have seen building cleaners painting over the tagging.
That's a great bit. Some graffiti (even if preconceived) is definitely better than others.
One of the students in my MA program had a boyfriend who was a Graffiti Artist (I think we have to put that in caps in this case). If I recall correctly, he spent his days in art school and his nights out graffiti-ing the greater DC area. I'm not sure that I ever saw any of his work, but I heard plenty of stories of him falling off things. I thought it was bit odd for a middle-class white guy, but people said no, graffiti art is big among middle-class white guys. Um, ok... Not that I ever got to the bottom of Czech graffiti.
I really like this graffiti too - it's very close to the sidewalk, on the corner of an old building where dogs like to pee, and the parallel between dogs marking their territory and graffiti artists doing something similar cracks me up.
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