Street Art: Blub #1

Continuing the theme from Year 1--art is everywhere--we have found some interesting street art in Florence.  We learned to notice street art (graffiti) when we went on an excellent tour in New York.

Here in Florence, our eyes have been drawn to some unusual samples. Dubbed "Blub", the art consists of paper (glued to building walls) with various printed portraits.  Each portrait features a face with swimming goggles and bubbles rising from the mouth. 

The underwater denizens may be talking or breathing--hence, the blub, blub, blub sound.  We leave it to you to assign meaning to the underwater theme. 

Some portraits are well known.  Others are less so. 

Here is a sampling of what we have seen.

da Vinci's Mona Lisa goes blub

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring goes blub

Michelangelo's David goes blub

Botticelli's Birth of Venus goes blub in peasant dress

Marilyn goes blub

Perhaps young refugees?

Gustave Courbet, 19th cent. French Realist painter, goes blub

P.S.  To learn more about Blub, check out this Facebook page, Art Can Swim.