I went gaga when I laid eyes on this mural.
The translucency of of colours over words is intriguing to me.
The gods never looked so great!
Rising over 10 stories into the Toronto sky line, this tall boy was difficult to shoot with my IPhone.
Oh, and there was this ugly billboard four feet in front of it, so I had to shoot on an angle.
Ah, I get it! Pave paradise, put in a parking lot. Rectify with gorgeous art. Put bad asp billboard 4 feet in front of art. Next!
Pics taken by Resa – February 20, 2023
Toronto, Canada
The artists: PichiAvo (Pichi & Avo) – Valencia, Spain
Click on photo below to visit their website.
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I agree this is gaga material. Thanks for sharing it, Resa. You took great photos.
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Thanks John!
It’s a fabulous mural.
Sounds like – ⏰🕰 – cl x4!
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AHA!
You and I speak fluent emoji!
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🪨🪨 -r X 4 I love it. 🧦🧦-s X4
Hey, I was looking for socks to minus the “s” from!
Humph! Oh well, no hard feelings!
💋💋💋💋 ox is in 2nd spot.
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What a brilliant mural! Great find, dahling!
Loved visiting their site too.
With you on the translucency of colors!
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Agree! Their site is amazing. Love their work!
The translucency effect is quite a feat, I would think!
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Oh, yes it it!!!!!
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swim suit out:
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That is breathtakingly beautiful, Sorceress! Effing billboard. I swear they do it on purpose.
However, since you are the photographer, you made your way around the atrocity to show us this gorgeous piece… My goodness…
I think it’s on purpose, Thunder. Where better to put a billboard atrocity than where everybody looks.
I hope the ad company at least pays $$$$$$$$ for the privilege of blocking the artwork.
You are probably right, Sorceress. I hope they paid MUCHO DINERO
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I’m very curious about the decision to go with the translucency of of colours over words. “Big Yellow Taxi” is one of my favorite Joni Mitchell songs.
I like the see through effect.
Underneath you have words that look like graffiti. Overtop, a classic work. It’s quite urban modern.
Joni wrote some good ones. I hope she’s still coming along!
I like it as well. It must be quite something in person (without the ugly billboard).
Joni Mitchell is receiving the Gershwin Award from the Library of Congress this month.
Yay!!! Thank you for this info, Merril!
You’re welcome!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This mural is (or it should be) set to classical music, while a thunderstorm is setting the town on fire. And it most certainly should not have the intrusion of that f$cking ad below it. Which should be ignored for whatever it is they’re selling.
Magnifique, Resa!
Thank you Marc!
Yes, this is a beauty. Magnifique is the word.
I don’t know what they are selling, but I hope the ad agency is paying $$$$$ for this spot!
I’m thrilled I bumped into it. I was actually looking for the mural of a deer that day.
(I found that, too!)
MUAH!
Thank U lovely!
It is the word alright, outstanding.
I hope the ad agency falls flat on their face, putting the ad there! I know, it’s wrong to say, but . . . .
Isn’t it funny how that works?
MUAH!
I can see why you went gaga over it! That is great. Looking at the video on their website they did all of the graffiti under-painting as well, starting off with a pretty much bare wall and building it up. Very cool work! And, yeah, paradise – parking lot – art work – billboard.
Lol! Your last sentence makes me laugh.. again. What could come after the billboard?
Yeah, this piece is gaga worthy. Hope I fined more. Still, I have a lot of lesser pieces I can post until the painting season is back in swing!
Have a great week, Trent!
Hell, yeah! That’s so awesome!
Stay safe, dear Resa!
Agree! Hope I find more like this!
You be well too, Martha! ❦❦❦
Fantastic artwork. Love it…everything about it. Other than the stupid sign. It’s wonderful, Resa.
IKR! That stupid sign! xoxo
That is a beaut! Too bad about the billboard.
I bet when corporation people see something so beautiful, they think “Let’s put a sign there! Everyone will notice it!”
Then the city charges them through the nose.
This is amazing. I can’t get over it in fact. Just a pity re that billboard. Pure vandalism.
Yeah… corporate vandalism.
Still, the mural is fantastic! xxxxxxxxxx
The mural overcomes such trash actually. Kind of overcomes life in away xxxxxx
rises above ti all actually which is kind of the best way at times xxx
A masterpiece! I can’t remember seeing renaissance wall art before. Thanks for sharing this Meece, it’s gorgeous xoxoxo
I’ve never seen this kind of wall art before, either.
It’s impressive in size, gods and art technique.
I adore it to Meeces’ pieces! xoxoxo
Simply WOW!!!!
this one is mighty powerful!
Agree!
What a beaut!
I never know what I’m going to find when I head out!
That’s one big mural and definitely gaga-worthy. To me its a blending of two styles that are centuries apart, which I enjoy. Cheers to the bit of Joni Mitchell.
Agree! They are centuries apart. It’s a wonderful fusion.
Joni wrote many splendid songs. I hope she is doing well wth her recovery!
They paved paradise and painted Mercury and Psyche. Great find.
It’s gorgeous! I truly wasn’t expecting to find this. I went looking for a deer I heard about. Suddenly this was in front of me. x
That’s quite dear. Go out deer hunting and you find Mercury and Psyche in a paved paradise.
Thank you dear Tim! Yes, the mural of the deer is a dear.
Dare I say all deer are dear, and can be found in many anagrams.
Lol! You started it! 🦌❦❦❦
A deer was double dog daring a Deere. Oh, dear.
A John Deere? The dear dog better watch out! The Deere are massive machines, I dare say.
They have some Bambi-sized critters.
Ah! xx
Quite an amazing piece of work but first we have to deal with cars in our photo line of sight, now billboards! What will they think of next???? 🤪😁
…… trees? 😉🙃
Great work; shame about the billboard!
I got a bit carried away with Psyche myself not too long ago: https://geotopoi.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/psyche-%f0%9f%a6%8b/
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Thank you for the link. It’s a fab article about Psyche.
Once this post is in control, I’ll reblog it, as a follow up!
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Oh great. thanks so much!
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🦋🦋 I see you speak emoji & beyond!
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LOL… Let me work on this phrase…..hmmmm?
I was wondering if the term for the male bird might be too UK-centric…
Ahh… what is the bird?
I looked up hickens…lol!!!
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then 👩🏻⚕️👨🏻⚕️-d = Octors?
Help!!!
Oh, sorry! So, it was meant to be 2 (c)OCKS [roosters over there?] plus 2 (d)OCS. Sounds likes.
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Ahh!!! LOL!
Hi Resa, another fabulous art find. I share your irritation at the billboard stuck in front of the artwork. You still managed to get some great shots.
Thank you, Roberta! I did my best, and am happy with the results. Actually, I would have taken more pics, but my battery ran out!
Great pictures Resa
Thanks Chris! The mural was inspiring to take shots of!
Have a great week ahead!
Thank you! I hope you have a great week ahead as well!
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I’ll be by soon!
Thank you!
I must follow you and go gaga too! 😃😅 That is a masterwork; Just WOW! 😍😍🥰🙏🙏💖
Agree! How lucky we are to have this beauty gracing our city.
I wonder what the next paining season will bring?
Until then, I have a collection of smaller pieces to post.
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‘Tis like going back in time…or better put, time from old days somehow arrived in current time. Superb. Regards, TOF
Agree! TOF, I’m crazy about this work of art. Thanks for taking a look at it. This one is worth it!
I think I would have stopped in my tracks too, Resa. How utterly gorgeous. Wow. And what an ugly ugly sign. What the…? Street art isn’t decoration. It’s ART and should be treated as such. The perfect song today.
I did answer this. My internet went down just as I hit post comment.
I thought it had gone through, but not.
This is a wonderful work of art. I hope the ad agency is paying through the teeth for this spot.
Poor Joni! I hope she is continuing to recover through therapy!
I hope the ad agency is paying through the teeth too!
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Wow, that’s absolutely gorgeous Resa! Thanks so much for sharing it with us!
You are welcome, Terri!
Glad you saw it, as it is a special one.
Beautiful mural and photos, Resa. The billboard is definitely unfortunate, but the beauty in this instance won’t be denied by its presence.
Thank you, Bruce! I agree, even crass commercialism cannot hide its beauty!
I was singing the song before you mentioned it! Iconic and powerful captures, Resa. You position the camera to obtain the best views for us. It is not easy to to this, given all of the signage, cars, and other disruptions that obscure our view. Do you know who the mural artist is? This mural brings out the love story of Mercury and Psyche beautifully!!
I love this mural.
There are 2 artists. They are from Spain. Their link is at the bottom of the post, in a pic to click on. Here it is.
https://www.pichiavo.com/
Nice work on getting the shot, Resa. Wow, that really is gigantic! What impressive talent in the artists. You continue to amaze by finding all these wonderful images. Hugs.
Thank you Teagan! Lol! I continue to be amazed by all of the street art in Toronto. It’s a wonderful thing.
Hugs!
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Yeah!!!! ❤️
Wow, he’s TALL! Wonderful. Your iPhone takes great pics, by the way. It’s amazing how far the cameras in phones have come!
All my street art pics since the beginning are with IPhones.
The cameras are fantastic for amateurs like me!
Such a magnificent artwork! Thanks for sharing, Resa, and claiming some good shots with that billboard in the way.
Thank you Ford! I try my best, always.
It is a brilliant work of art.
You did good, Resa 😎🤩
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Agree!
This is a touching depiction of the flight-to-Olympus scene, from Apuleius’ “Asinus Aureus” [The Golden Ass]. Magnificent photos!
I love this mural! So happy you got to see it.
Thank you about the photos! ❦
Beautiful!
Agree!
Gorgeous mural! Gorgeous colors! Wow!
Thank you for sharing, Resa!
My pleasure, and what a find! I was looking for a deer mural. I found that, too.
Wonderful! 💙🦌
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Oh WOW… when you got that shot of the whole building… How amazing… I am always blown away at the accuracy of perspectives done by these artists who paint these Huge murals Absolutely blows me away … Loved it Resa… ❤
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I would go gaga too. (And they keep putting stupid stuff in front of the art… Tsssk)
My fave is when they plant a tree! xx
They always do that. I suspect City Hall checks out new street art and when the paint isn’t even dry, they rush and plant a tree right in the middle. (That and garbage cans…)
Yes, garbage cans. OH, and let’s not forget the parking warning signs over eyes, etc.
AND.. if someone parks their car by street art, could they make it a clean shiny car, for optimal reflections.
The tough life of street art hunters…
Have a great week Resa.