Friday, July 30, 2010

Murals in Singara Chennai

Have you yet seen the walls of RajBhavan? They are all getting painted with Murals depicting Tamil culture and places of interest in TamilNadu.Its beautiful. There is just this one oldish guy mixing paints every morning, I cross by that area.
Every morning and evening I look with great eagerness for the progress he has made. The guy is truly talented. Some of his paintings have this 3D effect, that you feel like you can walk into it.
The best part is ofcourse that no one would be sticking posters or painting graffiti over something that beautiful and It helps that they are a pure visual pleasure.

I understand our government got the idea from Bangalore. And it has been implemented all over Chennai.

Speaking of graffiti, there is a whole slew of walls on the Five furlong road, that connects from vellachery bypass to guindy, that contains paintings of a politician. While that painter is no doubt talented too, there is a particular painting of this politician with his mouth open and right beside a painting of a snarling leopard. While I am sure we are supposed to understand that the idiot is like a snarling leopard or whatever, the painting never fails to crack me up.

I wish the Raj Bhavan guy would finish here soon and paint up that wall next.

PS: Hmm!!! I really need to take some photos of those murals.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

every time i pass these murals, instead of takin time to admire them ,my first thought is as to how long they will last in our grimy city....and not to mention those pan-spitters
-nnn

Anonymous said...

every time i pass these murals, instead of takin time to admire them ,my first thought is as to how long they will last in our grimy city....and not to mention those pan-spitters
-nnn

Sanjana said...

funny you should say that NNN, but there are some murals near the beach road, that have been there for more than a year and no one has spit or stuck any posters or drawn graffiti over it. They look as good as ever. Our city and its people are not as bad as u think :-)