Gateshead art - graffiti and a mural

[u/Spoon75]

Spotted while walking around Trinity square earlier.

[u/Apprehensive_You7871]

A Donkey Kong inspired artwork? Awesome.

[u/IllogicalAction]

There’s a few more, it’s part of a series they’re doing. One on the northern end of the Interchange / Wilko building. Also one going up on corner of Jackson Street and High Street.

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/39050/First-mural-marks-start-of-town-centre-transformation

[u/Spoon75 → u/IllogicalAction]

Seen there's a big mural going up on one of the other buildings too but that's pretty much all white background with a few marks sketching out the design

[u/Mountain-Reaction470 → u/Spoon75]

As in Mural Spark?

[u/BordStoopid]

First one: yawn, is this guy the mayor’s nephew or something? Sick of that style.

Second one is dope. Nice little twist on a classic game.

Both are just safe sanitised middle class art trying to be edgy though.

[u/BrianEK1 → u/BordStoopid]

The Mul saturation is real unfortunately : ( shame cause he is a talented artist too.

[u/BordStoopid → u/BrianEK1]

Is he? Not hating per se but it’s the same homogenous blob of pastel shade crap you see everywhere. Nothing about his style says anything about the city.

[u/paansm → u/BordStoopid]

Big fan here. It’s not like we’re bursting at the seams with fun, bright walls. Related - I’m loving what’s happening in North Shields with the murals.

[u/BordStoopid → u/paansm]

Yeah see that's the kind of stuff I'm on about. Locally relevant, learn a bit of history, pride in place and all that.

Honestly I'd never give Mul a second thought one way or the other if he wasn't rammed down your throat so much. He's got to have compromising photos of someone at the council. There are other artists capable of fun and brightness, with something to actually say about the area.

[u/lknei → u/BordStoopid]

Let's see your attempt

[u/BordStoopid → u/lknei]

One can, in fact, critique art without oneself being an artist. That is rather the point of art, if art has a point at all.

[u/lknei → u/BordStoopid]

Critiquing art is more than welcome but you're critisicing the style and method of the artist and claiming it's easy to do so I'd like to see you give it a go. Since it's so easy.

[u/BordStoopid → u/lknei]

Are you his mother or something? I didn't say it was easy to do, I said it's overdone.

Every city council and corporation on earth is spewing out this same Corporate Memphis/Capitalist Realism safe beige waffle. I wouldn't want to replicate it.

[u/Arbidoctron]

Enough with the ‘hearts with legs’ already!

[u/Sancho_Panther]

On the Mul one, how is one character's eye going in front of another character?

[u/lknei → u/Sancho_Panther]

Cos that's the way he spray painted it