Live Art

Here is a random selection of the stuff the Bacons saw at the RVA Street Art Festival. (Speaking of Bacons, one of the street artists was a fellow by the name of Brad Bacon. We never did track him down. But, who knows, maybe his work appears below.)

I wonder how the Sistine Chapel would have turned out if Michelangelo had worn sunglasses and used a hydraulic lift.

 

 

Family affair: This fellow had a painter's apprentice, his little girl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This thing, whatever it is, was wild. The woman in the red pants was leaning over and scraping a piece of metal in a metal chute, which contained water running down a trough into the metal pond. An amplifier (off-screen) magnified the resulting sounds, which could best be described as a cross between a metal shop and a whale song.

Above: Mini-wall art.

 

 

 

 

People as art?

With any festival, half the fun is watching the people. I have no idea what this young woman's story is. All I can tell you is that she was posing for a picture taken by another young woman dressed in similar attire.

 

 

 

 

 

Performance art?

Then there was this young man, with paint cans strapped to his shoes. I'm not sure how that worked out for him. I didn't see him walk. He stood around mostly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And lastly, closing on a note with a Bacon's Rebellion-esque flourish, here is a wall-art rendering of slave rebel Gabriel Prosser with the motto Sic Semper Tyrannis!

 

• Share this:
• Email
• Print
• Facebook

Edit