During summer, feel the artistic breeze in the streets of Madrid

Traduslation : Works on the rues

There is more to Madrid then the Arts inside the Museos de Prado y de Reina Sofia. Surprise : street artistic expression is spread across the madrilenas streets .

From the trendy Nike store on my street corner

to the newsagent in Lavapies (Madrid's Babylon)

Babylon rhymes with diversity and color.

On the following pic, where are the real leaves?

The plaza central of Chueca, the gay district in Madrid... Big AIDS awareness symbol

Graf on the Spanish cult center:  LA CERVECERIA...

As u can see, loads and loads of the shop fronts in the Centro have been decorated by "graffiteros".

Some might think "What are the local authorities doing?". Well, they are busy doing this :launching a graffiti contest to select who was will spray over one of the city day cares!

Surprising article in the national paper El Pais.

A babyshop selling bodies, underpants and bibs? Deserves it's spraying too

Paseo del Prado? Ok, let's put some Klimt. Why? For no reason....

Remember in the 90's? Everything was about saving ozone layer. Well a little of the layer still exist and some Madrilenos take good care of it: "Spray better, spray less"

Here are some of my favorites

 "le genie, c'est la simplicite"

Collage

Smileys

Illegal transaction stencil randomly captured in Toledo

El Museo Reina Sofia shelters the holy Guernica and several other paintings. The Calle Fuencarral also shelters some of his works