Our national Capital is a city known for its art and culture and liveliness. A tourist doesn’t have to visit boring museums or exhibitions to get the hang of the art of Indian culture. There are certain art styles, forms which is closer to home, more public and open for viewing to anyone basically called as Delhi street art. This art form is Graffiti which is spread across the mundane walls of the city that consists of drawings and paintings by world famous artists.
Here’s the Best of Delhi street art:
- Lodhi Colony, Meharchand Market:
At the time of DALeast’s visit from Chinese province of Wuhan to India were the many birds roam around the city. He then decided to capture this scene on a huge wall painting on the side of Lodhi Colony. Using exterior emulsion paint as well as spray paint he has designed an array of pigeons, crows and it seems these birds are converging into one hole on the wall. It is one of the best Delhi street art.
- Lok Nayak Bhawan, Khan Market:
This beautiful picture consists of a face split in two parts which took close to four days for artist Okuda, from Madrid, to bring this mural to life. This was his very first project in India influenced by the raise of capitalism and the way it manipulated people’s lives as well as the meaning of life in general in the real world. The surreal pop art uses a lively color palette to bring out this Delhi wall art.
- Delhi Police Headquarters, Indraprastha Marg, Balmiki Basti, Vikram Nagar:
Delhi Street Artists Association has teamed up with the Delhi Police in 2014 to make a huge portrait on the latter’s walls at the time one of its annual exhibitions. It was a duo of Mr Beikirch and Anpu Varkey who have worked on the galactic portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the headquarter walls. According to the artists as well as the police officials this will bring a sense of pride and patriotism to the Street art festival as well as make the citizens feel passionate as they look up at the Father of The Nation
- Delhi Cold Storage Building, New Azadpur Mandi:
This is one of the biggest wall murals in Delhi. The painting took 3 days to finish the fine art that is representing Axel Void or Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs’ creation of life’s mundane nature. There is a singular candle in the middle of the painting with the word zindagi (life) written on it while a couple of fruits and a knife are scattered on the bottom.
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