I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks, Sami
Two more murals from East Side Gallery, the longest and best kept segment of the former Berlin wall.
Fatherland (Vaterland) - painted in March 1990, by Günther Schaefer to honour the 50th anniversary of the Night of the Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) when Nazi forces in Germany and Austria destroyed Jewish owned shops smashing their windows. The mural is a protest against extreme regimes and abuse of human rights with a poem by Varda Carmeli (multidisciplinary artist living in Israel) delivering a message of hope for peace.
One of the most provocative murals at the gallery, it has been a target of of vandalism 46 times since it was originally painted in 1990, but the artist just renovates again and again as a form of non-violent opposition.
This next mural entitled "Thank you Andrei Sakharov" (Danke, Andrei Sakharov), was painted by Dmitri Vrubel and Viktoria Timofeeva to honour the Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human-rights activist who died in 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the wall.
Sakharov designed thermonuclear weapons for the Soviet Union, but later became an advocate of civil liberties and civil reform, facing state persecution for his activism. These efforts earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.
Birds Fly (Vogelflug) - Painted in 1990 by German artist Jeanett Kipka.
...what a good use for that awful wall! Thanks Sami for hosting, enjoy your week.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fantastic outdoor gallery, thanks Tom.
DeleteAs antisemitism becomes more and more acceptable — and even attractive —to American politicians on the right, art works like this commemoration inspire increasingly important thoughts. The vandalism is scary and probably will get worse. We had a good friend who as a child escaped German persecution and arrived in the US on exactly Kristalnacht. And we all thought this was in the past, but it isn’t.
ReplyDeletebest… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
It's very sad that some people haven't learned from past mistakes and injustices, wars, destruction of countries....and they want to do it all over again!
DeleteAs someone with Jewish ancestry I love seeing the star on the wall.
ReplyDeleteThanks Amy :)
DeleteAt least the wall does not have many graffiti painted over. It looks symbolic somehow
ReplyDeleteThanks Roentare, I think once in a while the murals get a facelift because of graffiti.
DeleteInspiring art! Thank you for sharing it Sami
ReplyDeleteThanks Cloudia :)
DeleteThese are inspiring and thought provoking.
ReplyDeleteThanks William. Sorry another one of your comments gone to spam
DeleteWhat a wonderful capture of history and it must send quite a few people Googling away to find out more. I confess I had forgotten about Sakharov and I think his portrait is particularly well done.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about Sakharov for many, many years either. Sorry your comment had gone to spam.
DeleteSo cool and historic. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteThanks Patrick :)
DeleteWonderful mural and a great statement to always renovate it against those stupid, brainless vandals.
ReplyDeleteSad we were in Berlin by car - thank you for making up for it, Sami!
Thanks Iris. Hope you can return to Berlin sometime and see all these and all the others I didn't see for yourself...
DeleteLet the message of hope for peace continues and remain strong.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nancy, a good wish for sure.
DeleteWonderful art works, Great clicks.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice week ahead.
Thanks Rupam
DeleteIt might just be me but when I glance at the man’s face (Andrei Sakharov) it looks like he has his eyes open looking upward but taking a longer look it’s obvious they are closed. Something to do with shadow in the left eye socket near his nose. Very realistic
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DeleteWest side wall is a really great canvas! Here’s my entry for this week -https://flightsofthesoul.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/clear-the-way/
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating :)
DeleteThe berlin wall greatly increased the use of murals and made them known all over the world. Are beautiful again among them.
ReplyDeleteThanks SC. A great and long wall for a lot of murals.
DeleteI just looked at my photos of the East Gallery from 2015 and did find one of Sakharov, but there is a lot of graffiti around it.
ReplyDeleteI also have the first one with the poem.
DeleteLove seeing the Andrei Sakharov mural. He was a hero, and this mural is perfect for street photography.
ReplyDeleteThanks Taken for Granted :)
DeleteTwo murals that speak volumes! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThank you Sharon :)
DeleteThanks for showing these, Sami.
ReplyDeleteThank you Pat :)
DeleteMinimalistas e simbólicas, as pinturas são verdadeiramente dignas
ReplyDeletede serem divulgadas, o que agradeço. Boa semana, Sami.
Obrigada Majo,continuacao de boa semana
DeleteIt's sad how antisemitism has taken root on the world stage again. It's even worse here in the states. I'm glad the East Side artist has removed the graffiti and painted over it so many times. That might be a Guinness World Record. The other murals are wonderful, too. So nice to see beauty instead of blah! These are great murals, Sami.
ReplyDeleteThanks Elizabeth, it's sad about anti-semitism and other prejudices...so much evil in this world!
DeleteVery interesting post.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda :)
DeleteThey are both powerful murals in very different ways.
ReplyDeleteCertainly are powerful murals. Thanks Jeanie.
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