Street art in Leeuwarden [9]: Past – Present – Future

Whether you call him Earth Crusher, Dréor simply Marc-André, for his friends, this man is one of the most famous artists on the Montreal scene. He finally got the name Earth Crusher from the song Earthcrusher by Mr. Lif. He started painting on highways, railways and trains in the western districts of Montreal in 2003. More

Street art in Leeuwarden [8]: iamfake

This artifact deals with the conflict in the Middle East. On the left is a Palestinian, on the right a Zionist and in the middle an Israeli border guard. It shows how different parties are pulling on robes for the military to be active. At the same time, however it shows how Fake would like to see it. Play together joyfully and without conflict. This work was commissioned by the Writer’s Block Mural Festival in November 2018. More

Street art in Leeuwarden [7]: The color-blind artist and his work

“Untitled,” created by Color Blind, Harke Broersma, Nash & B-Art
This work was created by Color Blind. He got help from Nash and B-Art. This was commissioned in November 2018 by the Writer’s Block Mural Art Festival on the wall of the local theatre De Harmonie. Color Blind knows the word “prejudices” virtually not at all. He himself is color blind. More

Street art in Leeuwarden [6]

This work from Klaas Lageweg shows Saskia van Uylenburgh, the woman of the well-known baroque painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Saskia van Uylenburgh was born 400 years ago and was the daughter of the former mayor of Leeuwarden, that means she was part of a highly respected Frisian family. During her lifetimes having a relationship with an artist was not common because he was in a lower social position than her. Saskia was the inspiration and the muse of many of Rembrandt´s paintings. More

Street art in Leeuwarden [5]

This work is a reproduction of an artwork from the famous M.C. Escher. It is located at Princessehof, the ceramic museum in Leeuwarden. The artist used the motive of a bird or more birds very often in many different ways and developed various graphic styles. Next to the huge bird consisting out of many birds is a sign and it is written: ”De graficus M.C. Escher werd geboren in het Princessehof op 17 juni 1898. De muurplastiek, naar een houtgravure van zijn hand, werd onthuld op 20 juni 1998” Translation: ”The graphic artist M.C. Escherwas born in the Princessehof on June 17th 1898. The wall plastic, after a wood engraving by his hand, was unveiled on June 20th 1998”

 

Street art in Leeuwarden [4]

„Kultuur ken dat oek in de frituur?“ This is a very critical work, in a metaphorical sense it means that culture and art is a not or even very low paid field of work and that it is often not possible to earn enough money to live from it. Maybe this work should let people start thinking about society and the way we are behave with money? The black and white part of the graffiti in the background is made with the technique of a stencil. (At the back of the Westerkerk)

Street art in Leeuwarden [3]

This is a very ironic one! The big white circle with the black point in the middle symbolises an eye. However, the other small circles are the signs for the language for blind people. But blind people cannot read the graffiti because the signs are not engraved in the wall and conversely, normally people cannot read the braille. The graffiti work is made by „Ljvant“ or also named „L.J. van Tuinen“ or „LJ van T“, an autonome artist. Many photos of his art works and some information can be found online.

Street art in Leeuwarden [2]

The graffiti of the joker is a leftover of the former coffeeshop „Flower Power“. The face of the Joker seems a bit sneaky and that should symbolise the use and effect of smoking weed. Sadly, there is no artist written but I heard this work of art was made by a woman. You can find it at Ipe Brouwersteeg.

Street art in Leeuwarden [1]

This work of graffiti, made by Harke Broersma, is very visibly located in the centre of Leeuwarden. You can find the artwork in the Oude Doelesteeg. The graffiti is a reproduction of a detail of the painting “Een gunstig uitkijkpunt” from the Dutch 19th century painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who was born in Dronrijp, Fryslân, and went to school in Leeuwarden. He was an influential academic realism painter. In the work is also the webpage www.mooileeuwarden.nl mentioned, a site with information about cultural happenings and places in Leeuwarden.

People of Leeuwarden – A new series – Intro

Attention readers! The YourPost team is happy to announce to you its newest rubric –“People of Leeuwarden”. Dedicated specially to people and for people to read, this rubric will tell the stories of different men and women who live in Leeuwarden. Our ultimate goal is to show the diverse citizens of this beautiful city and to introduce them to you –our readers.

Every week we will publish a photo of a person whose life you will read about. However, not everything will be revealed with the photo –the YourPost team hopes to give you the chance to guess and discuss what this person’s story is. We ask you to be creative and to give your honest (and nice) opinion about the lovely people that we will introduce to you. A day after the photo has been shared with you, we will publish an official post about the person on our Website.

You can expect our first story this week –  gather up your ideas and let your imagination work.