Blast Wall Art in Baghdad
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Every official building or media base these days has a frontage of four-metre (13ft) high concrete walls to protect against bombs and mortars, but Iraqis have begun to see the grey expanse as a public canvas, reports the BBC. "There is of course graffiti, but mostly great swirling apolitical exuberance - everything from retro-Chagall to prog-rock album-cover teenage fantasies.
[...] Security means glimpses of the art generally have to be snatched through curtained windows of our minivan - but the pattern of current popular expression all over Baghdad seems to be much the same - history or fantasy". |
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