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Frisky Street Art in Alicante
Alicante too is home to wonderful street art creations - despite only having 2 days, I caught some of them on my lens.
Street art is also employed by local businesses just like in playful Barcelona and elegant Madrid...
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If I were to go back to warm Alicante, I'd spend a lot more wandering the streets, alleys, looking for graffiti art.
Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid took me off my feet, but Alicante isn't below them either, from this point-of-view.
Street art spotting is quite a spirit-refreshing experience and I do this whenever I can.
And central Alicante's historic neighbourhoods are full of such paintings.
Because I only had a mere 2 days, my Alicante trip hasn't allowed me to thoroughly seek out and immortalize the beautiful graffiti art.
The parallel streets running down towards the port, especially the quiet streets are host most of the street art in Alicante.
If you are looking for street art, focus on the street networks around the Mercado Central and walk down to the port from there.
I wandered down from my hotel on those narrow streets an encountered several exhilarating works.
Murals are not the only type of street art I encountered, as you will see below on this page...
It's not just the murals of "vandals" and independent street artists that's appealing.
See a surreal World in violet. This was the first street artwork I came across in Alicante.
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As they do in Spain: many of the shops, restaurants (and here: even a hair dresser's shop) employ artists to decorate their walls and window covers.
Below you can see a depiction of such art - a central Alicante restaurant's decorated walls. I cut three slices and placed them near each other:
Depictions of a restaurant's street art-like murals
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Street art naturally goes beyond vandalism. It can be a true form of art. And on my site I've depicted countless convincing examples.
Now, let's return to the street murals.
Here's another example of shops using street art to make their window and door covers look prettier...
The morbid x-ray glass effect on the left is really wicked!
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Often times, the artworks on the window and door covers have nothing to do with the local business' profile, the services or products they offer. They don't reflect at all what's going on in there.
I suppose, they just employ an artist and let his/her fantasies run wild?
Surreal tennis-like match. How come the female players get to wear the crowns?
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But, of course: the artistic depiction can be suggestive.
As it is in this case below... A hairdresser's shop ("peluquería" in Spanish) employs a nice suggestive art piece on the window cover.
An Alicante hairdresser's shop's graffiti is welcoming to clients
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In some countries I keep bumping into these large garbage collector boxes. Some plastic, others metallic, but all have a horrible smell!
There are some in Alicante and each one I saw was nicely painted.
What do you know... a huge garbage collector recipient can be attractive as well...
Obviously, they haven't come up with any ingenious idea to make the smells better. But, at least the design can improve the experience.
This is it, hopefully next time I'll travel to Alicante or to other parts of Spain, I'll be able to provide more and better photos of graffiti art and other forms of street art.
Please do check my entire Alicante trip with all its reviews, and photo-rich articles.
It's an enthralling warm city, definitely worth visiting!
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