Spring finally appeared! The sun is outside and the time has come to discover. Fortunately, Philly has one of the largest collections of public wall paintings in the world, as well as hundreds of ordered sculptures and a constantly growing street art collection. In many respects, the city is only one vast museum of outdoor art. To celebrate the up-to-date season, Billy Penn has prepared a list of striking elements outside, both up-to-date and ancient, to see and heat up in the spring air.
Submitting a prism
1217 Spring Garden Street
Submitting a prism There is a brave, radiant mural filled with color. Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn, two artists Baltimore, created this Ode to the history of the Philly textile industry. All graphics resemble a vast, mismatched quilt, with shapes inspired by the city’s structures and surrounding nature. The sun’s rays radiate in some sections, giving the song an additional pop on a shining day.
Watts magazine
923 North Watts Street
Philadelphills usually go inside Watts magazine For music and inventive experiences, but the outer part of the building is also a canvas for street art projects. From Candy Hearts saying Philadelphians that they are stunning, to works of art promoting world peace after striking images of female beauty and nature, there is a lot to see during the passage.
Rittenhouse Square Animals
Rittenhouse Square
There is a bit of a mini zoo Rittenhouse Square. For children in the city, it is the right to go to jump and ride on the statue of Billy Goat, Alias Billy, and take a picture on a south -west walk on the square. Both children and adults can wander and take various brown, stone and granite animals focused in the park, including a giant frog, which sits in the climate, a little girl holds a duck, two well -brought up Kharte and majestic forest, removable snakes. Each song tells a story over 100 years.
Unit
1200 Christian Street
This unique street collage, created on an ancient brick building on Christian Street, appears with symbolism. The artist Sean Lugo organized a wall, combining 50 different street artists. Gritty is dressed like a grim reaper. The Wawa logo is located above the skull. The anthropomorphic Pit Bull runs the machete in one hand, and the characteristic head of the teddy bear Lugo in the other. Zagzemated symbol appears on the dog’s T-shirt, as well as on the black and white American flag. Do you feel the pressure of social and political chaos? Go to this work of art and try to unpack it all.
Dr. J mural
1234 Ridge Ave
It is occasional that the mural will survive the test of time, especially in a city such as Philadelphia, where citizens have a strange talent to destroy public works. And yet the mural of Juliusz Erving is still powerful. Painted in 1990, the legendary Sixers player wears a striking suit and glasses – quite a contrast from the basketball shirt that you can expect. It is painted in a hyperrealistic style and stands in a pose of power with a look at the viewer. According to knowledge, The real dr J had tears in his eyes He saw it for the first time.
The government of the sculpture of people
1401 John F Kennedy Blvd
The town hall is surrounded by dozens of artistic sculptures, including the famous love sculpture, lingerie clip and, of course, the statue of our iconic namesake at the top of the building. Still, go and give Jacques Lipchitz ‘ People’s government statue look. This fascinating giant knot of human weapons, legs and Torsos represents a human struggle and a challenging task of working together to achieve the goal. Figures tangled together embrace the family, newborn lovers and two characters at the top, a man and a woman who has a symbolic banner of Philadelphia.
Untitled, by Amy Sherald
1108 Sansom Street
The most famous and biggest work of Amy Sherald is probably the official portrait of the first lady Michelle Obama, who hangs in the National Gallery. However, one of her literal largest songs is located here in Philly. The mural created in 2019 presents a real student of Philadelphia named Sweat S. The skin of a newborn woman appears in black and white and wears white and black coat. However, her hat pops in yellow. He looks at the city from the electric blue background, causing questions about identity and public perception.
Swann Memorial Fountain
Logan Square
Yes, the most famous Philly fountain on Logan Square is cult. But can you replace the three digits he presents? A supporter of the temperature movement, Dr. William Cary Swann, supported the project presented in 1924 to discourage people from alcohol and instead celebrate the water of the city. After all, it is crucial to hydrate. Three forms of Lenape cause different water tanks. A newborn native girl with a water pool represents the Wissahickon stream. A woman from Łabędzi (game of words from Swann) presents the Schuylkill River and a powerful man Lenape with poured fish for embodies the greatest surrounding river, Delaware. She honors the land where our city was built, and its history long before she received the name of Philadelphia.
Thinker
Benjamin Franklin Parkway and 22nd Street
In the most famous park in Philadelphia, passers -by can check Thinker. What exactly is Thinker thinking? The character represents the famous poet Dante Alighieri, thinking about his masterpiece Divine comedy And eternal condemnation. Rodin created an original, larger version of the sculpture and installed it before Panthéon in 1906, during social and political shocks in France. However, what he actually wonders in the eye. After the artist’s wife’s death, it was said that the creation took on a up-to-date meaning for him.
Common threads
Spring Garden and North Broad Strets
Created in 1997 and restored in 2011, Common threads The mural celebrates Philly Creatives. Young Philadelphians stand next to them and imitate the position of actual works of historical art. At the top of Tameka Jones, a former student at Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, knows that she is the only student who had her unique pose. The mural, sometimes called “Mona Lisa on Broad Street”, celebrates Young Creative Minds.
We youth
2147 Ellsworth Street
Keith Haring is one of the most famous street artists of all time, and Philly has its only common mural that remains intact. Painted in 1987, harvest created works of art in cooperation with Citykids of New York and Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia. The artist painted his expressive characters in basic colors. Action lines surround them when they seem to move dynamically around the building.
A statue about freedom
1600 Vine Street
. Freedom The statue, the resident of Philly, Zenos Frudakis, was made in 2000 and presents a moving narrative through four images of lend a hand. First of all, the male statue stands completely motionless with his hands at the side. It is stiff and imprisoned, attached to the wall. In another person he begins to spin. In the third he throws forward, reaches forward. And on the fourth it broke up – it is no longer attached to the wall. He is his own statue. He raises his hands and rejoices and his body left.
Elektryczna street
6th Street Semetass, 6th and Wood Strets
Just around the corner from Pat and Geno, art lovers can check ELECTRICAL STREET, Permanent mural and airy installation. Artist David Guinn and designer Light Don Billiau collaborated to transform the Philly block into Neon Miracle. Filled with blues, roses and bile, Elektryczna street It will certainly brighten your night.
Boner 4ever and Forever Boner
3701 N Broad Street
Sometimes things are so bad that they must be right. Graffiti “Boner 4Ever” and “Forever Boner” wrote stories high on both sides of the Art Deco Beury building in northern Philly. Although we can never know the exact history of the origin of this work, legends say that the New York street artist Boner has joined forces with Philly Artist 4Ever to create this perfect match. Graffiti became so beloved that when the programmers planned the renovation of the building, he met with intense loose. Later, the agreement collapsed and the iconic graffiti was saved. Indeed Boner 4Ever.
Mosaic Mural Isaiaha Zaragar
Literally everything
Magic gardens in Philadelphia are covered from top to bottom with striking mural mosaics from the artist Isaiah Zagar. However, the artist’s works are also embossed throughout Philadelphia. If you live especially in southern Philly, there are chances that you are a block or two from many titled miracles. Magic gardens have Map of mural From all his work in the city to check and discover for himself.
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