[Download] 58 Berlin Wall Memorial Graffiti
Multilingual messages range from overt calls for unity make love not wall to taunting humor nyet nyet soviet to philosophical musings doubt is the substance of nothing.
Berlin wall memorial graffiti. One of the common places in many texts that deal with the evolution of berlin street art scene is that it began on the west side of the berlin wall. The wall s death strip on the east side of the wall here follows the curve of the luisenstadt canal filled in 1932. There was a graffity slogan once on the wall that even surprised the secretary general of the international red cross and which could bring some light into the future thinking of mankind. The most striking and renowned murals to adorn the berlin wall include dmitri vrubel s fraternal kiss and birgit kinder s trabant breaking through the wall. What s left of the wall that is. Berlin wall view from the west berlin side of graffiti art on the wall in 1986. The former eastern section of the berlin wall has been painted by many unknown graffiti artists.
Memorial of the berlin wall. The initial barbed wire fence introduced in the 1960s grew into a sophisticated security system of concrete walls electric fences and guard towers separating the east side from the west embodying all the anxieties of the cold war in the most concrete of senses. The berlin wall birthplace of local graffiti culture. Memorial of the berlin wall. Look beyond the graffiti see 17 777 traveler reviews 10 209 candid photos and great deals for berlin germany at tripadvisor. Pictures from the last years of the gdr show a wall caked in a matrix of political graffiti. Here are just a few murals you may see.
The kiss depicts soviet leader leonid brezhnev giving the east germany president erich honecker what appears to be a passionate kiss on the lips. The murals are painted in a wide range of styles from new york style graffiti to classic japanese paintings. And it is perhaps the most famous image that appears in berlin s east side gallery a nearly mile long mile stretch of the berlin wall. Let s first globalize responsibility.