Lovely Sculptures Of Urban Art That Make The World A Better Place
#1: Yarn Bombing
This is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.
#2: Beautified Storm Drains
By Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente [Brazil]. Usually drains are piled up with gross stuff so this makes it nicer to look at.
#3: Stained Glass Electrical Towers
By Ail Hwang, Hae-Ryaan Jeon and Ghung Ki Park [Münster, Germany].Three art students in Germany have come up with a novel way to beautify ordinarily ugly urban environments. They turned a common electric tower into a makeshift stained glass lighthouse.
#4: Buildings painted to look like faces by Nikita Nomerz [Russia]
When trudging around Russia's expansive landscape, street artist Nikita Nomerz sees more than just dilapidated buildings and discarded trash.
#5: Tanbo Rice Paddy Art [Japan]
This is an art form originating in Japan where people plant rice of various types and colors to create a giant pictures in a paddy field.
#6: “Red, Yellow and Blue” by Orly Genger [USA]
Genger used 1.4 million feet of salvaged nautical ropes to create the three intricately hand-knotted pieces that weave throughout the park.
#7: Books used to fill in the cracks an old library [Russia]
Why use ugly cement to hold this up when you can use amazing books?
#8: Colorful Petrol Station by Maser Art [Limerick, Ireland]
Maser Converts a Derelict Ireland Petrol Station Into an Homage to Ed Ruscha.Â
#9: "Harmonic Convergence" by Christopher Janney [USA]
This art piece will project to travelers passing through a palette of more than 150 transparent colors alongside sounds recorded in Florida Everglades and on ocean SCUBA dives. The density of the sound score fluctuates in accordance to pedestrian activity, which is tracked via two video cameras installed in the ceiling. Topping off the experience is the rap of a short drum beat every hour to mark the time.
#10: Canopy Of Umbrellas by Sextafeira Produções [Portugal]
As part of Agueda's annual arts festival Agitagueda, production company Sextafeira Produções came up with this beautiful art piece (or pieces).
#11: Origami Art by Mademoiselle Maurice [Paris, France]
Paris-based, French artist Mademoiselle Maurice likes to turn the streets into colourful, urban installations through the medium of origami.
#12: Globe Park by Francois Abelanet [Paris, France]
It's 3D, but it looks so real and like it's coming at you.
#13: Chandelier Street Lamps by Werner Reiterer [Austria]
He should add one to every street lamp then so the beauty will be felt by more people.
#14: "Painting Reality" by Akiz Ikon [Berlin, Germany]
This would distract me so bad. I wouldn't be able to drive safely.Â
#15: Beautified electrical boxes by Mona Caron [San Francisco, USA]
Mona Caron, who created the adjacent Bicycle Coalition mural on the back of the Safeway has added new touches to the Muni utility boxes on the sidewalk.
