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Pandemic Street Art: TVBoy and pop street art during the pandemic
Title (Dublin Core)
Pandemic Street Art: TVBoy and pop street art during the pandemic
Description (Dublin Core)
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.
Date (Dublin Core)
Creator (Dublin Core)
Type (Dublin Core)
screenshot, Twitter, website
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
https://twitter.com/tvboy and https://www.tvboy.it/
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Cities & Suburbs
English
Art & Design
English
Public Art
English
Religion
English
Healthcare
English
Politics
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Collection (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/01/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
04/03/2021
Item sets
This item was submitted on April 1, 2021 by Monica Ruth using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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