More Unique StreetArt from the South of Brazil

I had promised, in my last post from Florianópolis , that there will be more street art galleries from Brazil – here is my next instalment of pictures taken in the South of Brazil (north as far as outside Rio de Janeiro).

The oldest of these photos, the black-and-white chameleon with the strange head, was taken somewhere in the south of Rio Grande do Sul. One interesting observation this time is that there was a fair bit of maritime influenced street art near the beach – I guess it makes sense…

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And I noticed a number of rather well executed portrait style faces, many kept in black and white. This seems to be an international trend from what I see from time to time on the internet. I like it, though in most cases I don’t recognise the person shown. Maybe they are locally popular…

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Unfortunately we didn’t see much of the city of Curitiba (the capital of the Parana state ) as I came down with a fairly bad cold and we ‘overstayed our welcome’ on a parking lot near the city’s main park. Driving through town we noticed a good number of excellent streetart pieces but, as usual, there wasn’t anywhere to park nearby. I felt too exhausted to consider any lengthy walk to photograph graffiti.

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I photographed this black and white piece in a small town called Xangri-La in Rio Grande do Sul. I initially thought it was a shrimp until I realised (by zooming in ) that it’s a chameleon with a somewhat strange head.

An empty building in a prominent location of Morretes was coloured with various small pieces of streetart.

I love this leopard head, which was part of a long wall in Morretes.

Another part of the same building in Morretes.

Shot from our truck window: part of a wall on the outskirts of Curitiba.

I don’t know if this formally qualifies as street art – it’s certainly public art. A portrait, painted on wooden boards, in the entrance of a restaurant in Morretes.

Near Morretes is the little dilapidated port town of Antonina. These two pieces side-by-side couldn’t be more different.

I leave it to you to interpret this ‘strange piece’ from Antonina.

This ‘new agey’ piece was on a wall to the left of a normal house entrance.

The opposite side of the same house entrance.

Almost every larger town in Brazil has a skate park, like here in Ubatuba. They are usually well designed, with lots of different ramps and elevations, and well frequented.

Parati (or Paraty) is rather well known for its beautiful historical centre. I found this wall, which encourages ‘respect for the nature’, in an outer suburb.

Some of what we captured in Curitiba also captured us. I particularly liked one house which was covered in stencils overlaid with screen prints of peoples’ heads. All very critical and humorous depictions of current times, like the woman with her blinkers made of smart phones. There were more than just the two, but it suddenly started to pour down heavily with rain – which put an end to photographing the others (all I got was rain stripes in every picture and my camera got wet).

These two faces are part of an entire house facade in Curitiba (see above text for more detail).

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