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| New at one end of the skateboard ramp in Sports Park I don’t know the new cartoon characters, so this one unknown! It seems to be a good fit with the Primary School across the street. |
New Graffiti Art in Sports Park
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| I watched teenagers painting on it one day and a week later it was done! Parque deportivo (Sports Park) Atenas, Costa Rica |
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| I think it is an amazing work of art! Thanks to the youth of Atenas! And a little closer! Both are cell phone photos, as most of my photos from walks in town. Atenas, Costa Rica |
I assume that maybe art classes in one of the two public high schools is doing all of these quality murals around town. This particular park is a hangout for kids of all ages, so very appropriate here!
See also my Atenas Public Art & Graffiti Photo Gallery
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~Henry Ward Beecher
Atenas Clinic Murals-Graffiti
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| In the alley/back street to the back entrance of the public clinic of Atenas is this graffiti + the next photos |
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| To the right of the above 3-pix panorama is this painting. |
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| And around the corner on the cross alley seen when you walk out the door. |
There is a lot of this kind of graffiti or “public art” in Atenas. I don’t know the origin or if someone is helping to keep kids out of trouble, or art class projects, “professional artists,” or what? But it is interesting for a small rural town and does add a lot of color to the community. If you go to the front door of the clinic you might not see these, but this door is more convenient for most of us walkers which is most of the patients!
I personally like “Public Art” for all cities and towns even when the style or images are not appealing to me. It seems prudent to me for a community to have a local committee or Art Commission as my former hometown of Nashville had to manage it, the locations, and even the nature of the art. I do not know if Atenas has such a group.
See my photo gallery of MORE PUBLIC ART IN ATENAS
New Graffiti on Skateboard Ramp
In the city recreation park in front of Central School Elementary is all kinds of recreation from soccer to volleyball that I’ve shown before. Well, the skateboard ramp just got a fresh coat of paint in the form of some new graffiti or public art that should please the skateboarders! Tuanis! Mae! (Cool! Dude!)
Shot with my cell phone and cropped a little in the computer. I shared some graffiti a year ago that was not as interesting and the more distant shot of skateboard ramp is particularly less vivid! Most of the other graffiti shot last year is about the same with 2 or 3 small new additions on walls.
Atenas Graffiti
It appears on an ugly wall behind the High School in first two photos, then on the concrete wall of a city park in front of the Primary School. It is the only graffiti I’m aware of and wonder if it was a school art class project?
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| A 4 or 5 shot panorama of wall behind high school that I walk by almost every day. There’s more beyond gate at right, next. |
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| More behind the high school gym to the right of above image. |
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| The front of the high school however would never have graffiti. |
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| Wall on big city recreation park in front of primary school, more in next photo. This park has soccer, basketball, volleyball, skateboard, and more recreation. |
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| Though not all great art, it too seems too well organized to be vandalism. Note the skate board ramp is also painted with graffiti above & below. |
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| Skateboard ramp in city park in front of Escuela Central. |
“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.”
San Jose Today
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| Cost Rica flag flying in front of the National Theater After Teatro Nacional we visited the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum next door |
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| The National Museum of Costa Rica |
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| Pre-columbian & Indian Cultures were prominent in the museum |
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| One of the mysterious stone spheres found in prehistoric Costa Rica’s south |
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| Downtown San Jose Graffiti |