Collected Item: “Pandemic Street Art: TVBoy and pop street art during the pandemic”
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Pandemic Street Art: TVBoy and pop street art during the pandemic
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screenshot, Twitter, website
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TVBoy is the artist name of Salvatore Benintende, Italian graffiti artist from based in Barcelona, Spain. Through the months of the pandemic, TVBoy has put up several wheat paste murals incorporating imagery of the pandemic, social justice issues, Catholic imagery, and political topics: a school of fish wearing masks; former President Trump in a Superman costume; the Sacred Heart Jesus figure wearing a mask; imagery of Antonio Canova’s statue The Three Graces (the mythological three charities, daughters of Zeus — Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia — said to represent youth/beauty, mirth, and elegance) wearing form-fitting scrubs, clogs, masks, and representing three well known vaccines (Moderna, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca); imagery of Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper but with Jesus wearing a mask and separating two sides of the table; and others.
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#mask #pandemicstreetart #HST580 #ASU #TVBoy #Italy #Barcelona #Spain #vaccine #ThreeGraces #LastSupper #Jesus #Twitter #Instagram
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https://twitter.com/tvboy and https://www.tvboy.it/
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Salvatore Benintende, aka TVBoy
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2020