A mural by two artists, Melissa Turner and Brigitte Dawson, from Melbourne’s Murals and Interior Design, caught my eye in an article in the Guardian. In 2020, these artists did several murals illustrating a view of the pandemic and the response to it. This one is on the wall of a Cole's supermarket (source).
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| Caption from the Guardian: "A woman passes under the words ‘#physicaldistancing’ in a mural based on Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, in Melbourne, Australia. Photograph: Michael Currie/Speed Media/Rex/Shutterstock" (source) |
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| Another view of the mural: "The Creation of #physicaldistancing." (source) |
“In times of great uncertainty, it’s refreshing when we can turn to creativity and the power of art to help reiterate the importance of remaining safe and doing our part to flatten the COVID-19 curve." (source)
I love art parodies: though I mostly collect images of the Mona Lisa, I have quite a few images that make use of Michelangelo's famous creation image from the Sistine Chapel, and others as well. In the last year and a half, as the pandemic ravaged the world, I've seen quite a few Mona Lisa parodies and murals about masks and the pandemic -- a google search offers many of them. Here's a good one, just for fun:
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| "Mona Lisa Corona Covid" (source) |
When I saw the "Creation" mural depicted in the Guardian, I wanted to share it with the many lovers of murals and street art who share their finds at Sami's blog each Monday (which is Sunday where I live). Maybe some of the participants who live in Melbourne have seen this mural -- if they have already shared it with the group, I'm sorry that I missed their posts!
17 comments:
These are great! Thanks for sharing them!
These look great! Street art can be so amazing! Thank you for sharing!
LOVE them both. Signs of the times. The ONE time this month I was on time, Sami is nowhere to be found.
Tous deux sont magnifiques !!!
Thank you for sharing. I love art parodies also.
Those pieces of famous art, rendered for today’s pandemic needs, made me smile.
Art especially Street Art can send some very loud messages. Nice to see these. Thank you for sharing these interesting pieces of art. :)
Have a good week, Mae.
I had seen the Mona Lisa one but not the mural from Melbourne. So thanks for sharing it.
It is a beautiful picture of the time and very well executed
Great ones. I woke dreaming of hearing of Covid in the news.
How long will this go on.
Great way to deal with it that way.
Here, sadly, too many people forget or don´t understand DISTANCE is the key.
Great murals Mae, I hadn't seen either of them.
Thanks for participating in Monday Murals.
WOW!
Brilliant look at the pandemic. I thought by now it would be over.
It's great to see this kind of creativity used to illustrate the seriousness of the pandemic and to encourage responsible behaviour. Sadly, for some, far too many in fact, nothing is going to cause them to be responsible.
Thanks for sharing these - love the melbourne mural but at the moment it is too far outside my 10km limits to visit so am glad I can see it here. The mona lisa one is great. I heard today about some interesting historic pictures from Australia during the spanish flu pandemic with gum leaves for masks - https://www.naa.gov.au/learn/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/health-and-welfare/epidemics-and-quarantine/may-gibbs-illustrations-public-health-poster
Thanks Johanna — that’s a very interesting historical poster about masks in the Spanish Flu epidemic 100 years ago.
Thanks for sharing my image of the mural in South Melbourne. I saw it as I was driving around the lockdowned city on a Saturday morning on the way to cover some other events. I stopped because I thought that a single person just walk under the words would make a great shot. I only had to wait a few mins for a shopper to come along.
to see more of my images check out my instagram https://www.instagram.com/_michael_currie/
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