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Praça Cantão, Favela Painting

Dutch artists unveil beautiful new art intervention....

Praça Cantão, Favela Painting

After featuring Dulux’s brilliant ‘Let’s Colour’ campaign – here, and here – it would seem that people are going crazy for vibrant street painting. Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn have previous here though, their first ‘Favela Painting‘ was back in 2006 and yielded two murals which were painted in Vila Cruzeiro, Rio’s most notorious slum. This time their back on a monumental scale – unveiling a 7,000sqm art intervention that sees 34 houses, on the giant hillside favela of Praça Cantão, given a beautifully vivid overhaul…..

Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting
Praça Cantão, Favela Painting

Comments

  • MICHEL

    J’aime ! C’est une découverte pour moi ! Surtout que ce soit les propriétaires qui peigent eux mêmes ! Bonne initiative qui devrait être reproduite dans d’autres pays ! Bravo pour les créateurs de ce site !

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G5PMGNXOG55F2G4H66GFHF4YRE Carlos

    vibrant street painting? I cant imagine our streets like this