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Source: Bored Panda
This might actually happen if you lived in one of the buildings that got touched by this talented French street artist Patrick Commecy. Together with his team, he creates huge murals of hyper-realistic facades that bring blank and boring city walls to life.
Whats interesting here is that while these realistic yet fake facades trick you at first glance, some of the people painted there were once real. Commecy often paints many notable people from the history of the town the mural is in. Can you spot any of them?
More: http://www.boredpanda.com/street-art-realistic-fake-facades-patrick-commecy/
840high
(17,196 posts)niyad
(114,012 posts)we have something like that here--the back end of a building downtown that looks like a theatre stage. a lovely thing to encounter unexpectedly.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)There are so many plain concrete surfaces out there just screaming for somebody to paint something on them.
zentrum
(9,866 posts)There was a wonderful trompe l'oeil on an grey brick wall in NYC for several decadesuntil the city painted it over. For no reason. Lovely fake windows, blowing curtains and lolling cats.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Very nice job!
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Mexican Government Asked Street Artists To Paint 200 Houses To Unite Community
http://www.boredpanda.com/crew-germen-graffiti-town-mural-palmitas-mexico/
demmiblue
(36,921 posts)I love how that one wee little green house with the orange accents kept its identity!
Warpy
(111,481 posts)into an area everybody wanted to be in through a few buckets of paint. There's also a TED talk about this project in Mexico.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,778 posts)NBachers
(17,192 posts)My imagination says that there's some kind of vigorous activity going on behind the closed window of the first one.
More great pictures at the link.
IronLionZion
(45,680 posts)His paintings were so magically real that the roadrunner could actually run through the painted tunnel.
His site-specific work predates Christo by decades! Yet he gets scant recognition for his contributions.
IronLionZion
(45,680 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)against Acme Corporation and I think he retired a rich man
today living in Trump Towers..
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/fun13.htm
IronLionZion
(45,680 posts)but cutting corners on basic safety
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)defined the meaning of Persistence.....!
klook
(12,174 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)in the National Lampoon.. Perhaps it was an excerpt..
Cant remember..
klook
(12,174 posts)We need a lot more art in the world, and less gray.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)It would be interesting to engineer a way for some of them to view this work, and maybe pay for a couple cases of spray paint.
See what they come up with on their own...
TeamPooka
(24,309 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Undoubtedly some people are complaining about it, because that's what some people do.
demmiblue
(36,921 posts)I spotted some fans of the drink:
1) Pablo Picasso
2) Edgar Degas:
I can't see clearly to recognize the others (one may be Paul Gauguin: Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.) .
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Lots of wall painting in downtown Fairbanks as well - terrific murals. Go, artists!!
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I love Trompe-l'il painting! Thank you for this.
Warpy
(111,481 posts)but none of them is the type of trompe l'oeil painting that these are. These are truly wonderful.