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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 by www Subscribe To My Feed

Art Tour Paris

So, you’ve visited the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysées and the Picasso Museum. Some true Parisian classics. But have you visited the real art of Paris. This may sound ridiculous, but there’s a new art emerging from the streets of Paris that doesn’t include putting a foot in a museum. Forget about the usual tourist attractions, the ones you’ve seen a million times; anyone who is truly interested in art needs to read on and learn about the best hidden secret of Paris; Urban Art.

To many, Urban Art is synonymous to vandalism. Graffiti; destruction. However, we’re not simply talking about tags (those scribbles you often see on walls) but some actual pieces of art. Graffiti has come a long way since the days when groups of fourteen year olds congregated around street corners with a can of spray paint just to write their name in an incomprehensible scribble on a backstreet wall. Urban art is about creating a statement; political, cultural and social. This is why many artists have been working on the streets for years; the pure pleasure of creating and the statement that it projects is enough for the artists. Receiving millions of dollars for a piece is not on their list of priorities, although it is a bonus and it does happen; just look at Banksy for example.

If the politics behind urban art has inspired you to discover this new world, then a trip to Paris is a real must. There is even a company that does tours of Paris’s best street art. They’ll take you around the 5th and 13th arrondissement and show you some of the most powerful graffiti you ever would have seen.

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