Dragons, Dragons Everywhere!

in photography •  7 years ago 

That's one of those long street arts paintings in Valencia which actually needed a panorama to be captured entirely.


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I have no idea how long it took to make this, but it's gorgeous.


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Now That's what you call art!

Some people just know how to take extraordinary to the next level. And here is one.

Its a pretty cool street art, i like the humanoid with the dog face and the crocodile trying to reach him with his arms. Probably took weeks to make!

Look like Dragonchain

Wow this is some amazing stuff. It will probably take ages to make this I'm sure. But I love it, it had been done with great perfection and the colours are great too.

This is how creativity looks like. An awesome color art.

A pretty street, the wall is painted fully with dragons on it.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

wow so beautiful street art work picture
you have shared it.good job sir keep it up

Artensia that really is how it should be called

nice photograpy

Wow that's so amazing

The art work on the streets is really impressive looking so cool :)

Upper lefthand corner writing is apparently in Catalan. It's a pretty famous quote by Erasmo or Erasmus of Rotterdam (Desiderius Erasmus Rosterodamus) who lived during the Renaissance. The actual quote in English is:

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Here, though, some of the words have been changed. Probably the most significant is the word "tort." Instead of "one-eyed man" it's translating as "fault."

However, when I put the whole phrase to be translated, it comes out something like this:

In the country of the blind (the) blame is (the) king.

So, like most murals, there's some social commentary going on and since Catalan is spoken in Catalonia—the area of Spain that has been most recently the home of a separatist movement—it might have something to do with that.

Wish I could see the shield/crest on the dog a little clearer. There are what appears to be words circling the triangle on the chest. Then, there are letters on the arm of the dog below the skull. It looks like "MeFy", but it's hard to tell.

Orden y la ley would be Order and the law, which is backward to how it's normally said, law and order.

cool street art

Do dragons have any connection with Valencia, or are they there just because dragons are cool?

I'm wondering if Game of Thrones is maybe referencing something of this city's history somehow.....(Valerian...)

This painting is really amazing. Dragons!!!

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