Street artists come up with creative ideas to make art amid COVID-19 lockdown; see pics

As people retreat in homes amid coronavirus lockdowns, graffiti and cityscape artists have headed out for creative expression on  vacant streets where restrictions have somewhat eased. Despite surveillance of public s in a bid to stem pandemic, art has failed to stow away from plain sight. From Hong Kong to Dublin, coronavirus art movement can be evident from how muralists have articulated pandemic on walls.  

An acclaimed anthropologist and curator, Rafael Schacter, an expert with a focus on public and global art, told a leading US media outlet that art is vital as an expression of  collective experience during challenging times of this pandemic. And hence, artists, most importantly, have dissolved very concept of public or scrutiny of public policies and are coming forward with an artistic representation of global health crisis on streets.

And to back his claims, social media abounds in pictures of a graffiti, or a colourful, geometric painting popping up on random walls representing an encouraging concept, or focusing on social issues, or perhaps simply gracing wall. On Twitter, several artistic pieces can be seen drawn on walls in Paris, Italy, Spain, India, England, Sudan, Poland, Greece, Syria, Indonesia, and elsewhere. 

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