Graffiti over Athens

And on and under and around.  Graffiti was ubiquitous in some quarters. 

Graffiti on the house, and even on the door and window shutters.  The woman to the right of the door is notable. 

This pink house and indeed this entire street was completely covered.  

The pink house above is on the right in this panaramic shot of the graffiti covering this street.  

A closeup picture of the house in the previous picture at the end of the street.  

This graffiti had some political overtones.  

The drip pattern drawing is a little spooky.  The art work feels like the same artist as in the previous picture.  

Final graffiti, in the business district.  

Lisbon Graffiti

Featuring the largest graffiti I've ever seen. 

This building appeared to be starting renovations.  But someone or several someones had first covered the front with a substantial amount of the usual type of graffiti.  This sort of graffiti, on a smaller scale is common in Lisbon and environs. 

These remaining pictures were part of a three building graffiti including at least two sides of the end building that appeared to have been designed by one or at most three people.  This first graffiti took up the full side of this first building.  This is a small piece of the big graffiti, and shows the hand poking out of the building and holding a man who is functioning as a slingshot.  

Here is one full side of the picture, showing the masked and hooded slingshot artist preparing to toss a rock.  The next picture shows a closeup of the small sign above his face. 

I heart vandalismo.

And this is the front of the same building.  Two of the balconies are functioning as eyebrows.  The obese man wears a crown with the names of various oil companies on it, and is sucking on a straw.  His drink is earth clutched in his hands.  It may be part of the previous building side, if the stone is being aimed at the obese man. 

 These birds are on the back side of the third building.  

King kong but with a human face is featured.  He's actually in the building, with various body appendages sticking out.  The windows, which have all been bricked up are painted with the night sky and stars. He's chasing a crocodile which is on the front of the third building, but I didn't get a good shot of it as it was half in sun and half in shade. 

Portuguese Graffiti

Graffiti is fairly ubiquitous in Lisbon.  Fancier neighborhoods can be relatively free of the stuff, but run down neighborhoods and abandoned houses generally have quite a lot of graffiti.  Occasionally it rises to the level of art.  Though mostly not. 


No need for bird images pasted on your glass sound barriers.  Just call your local neighborhood tagger team and not only will your glass barriers not catch birds, you don't have to pay for the paint!  What a deal!

Face and space mutt.  

Covering the car park wall.  

Okay, who let that in here, this IS supposed to be a family blog.  

Artistic Signs in San Pedro

This is the first of two sign posts (pun intended) from San Pedro.  Here we see artistic/artsy signs from around San Pedro, including shots of some graffiti.

Here is a shot of signs for little fish theatre or at least for their parking.  I wasn't clear on where the actual theatre is, it could be that building but I doubt it.  You can see the heavy load building owners have for painting over graffiti.  I'm not sure why I consider this art per se, but it's going in this post none-the-less. 

The sign says "Liberty".  On the wall across the street from the little fish theatre parking sign.   

This oddity is one of those mandated public art associated with new buildings.  This laser ray would shine down at night on pedestrians and track them.  I'm sure the pedestrians found this exceedingly uncomfortable.  Clever idea, but best left on the shelf.  Just sitting there, it's not that pretty.  Looks a little like a Pixar reject from an open casting call for a lamp.

The last of the public art.  This from a table on someone's lawn advertising painted rocks for sale.  I thought they were pretty.  Go buy one. 

Fetus is not for sale.  Probably available for painting over if you contact the owners of the waterway.  Graffiti may be painful (I've got plenty of graffiti shots from San Pedro), but bigger more practiced graffito do rise to the level of art. 

For example, this graffiti decorated wall.  The combination art and social commentary is dripping with what?  Irony? Sarcasm?  Fakery?