Wednesday 4 October 2017

We Have Featured Highly Coloured,

outdoor basket ball courts before,


like this one from French fashion brand Pigalle and design agency Ill-Studio, back in June this year

 and it seems they are popular, as this aerial picture shows, 

 Artist Katrien Vanderlinden has painted colourful shapes inspired by toy bricks onto a basketball court in the Belgian city of Aalst,

Vanderlinden's Ezelsplein mural is based on a children's mathematical reasoning game named Logical Blocks, which comprises squares, rectangles, triangles and circles, in different shapes, sizes and colour,

inspired by these shapes, she added triangles, circles and rectangles in between the traditional court markings – creating spaces for the local children to play other games, block colours in hues of blue, yellow and pink were chosen to fill in the shapes, as an "ode" to the bold and graphic Memphis art movement, and above the completed court, and it appears She is not alone in designing a project to be best-seen from above, in response to the increasing popularity of drone photography of basketball courts on social media, 

 for instance Nike have gotten in to the frame,

  when they enlisted Brooklyn-based artist Kaws to paint his signature motifs across two basketball courts in New York City,

the artist who is known for his brightly coloured, cartoon-like works and limited-edition objects covered two side-by-side courts on Manhattan's Stanton Street,

other artists are dong the samelike the one above, "Drones are also widespread nowadays, so to make an artwork that can only be viewed as a whole from an aerial point of view isn't such a crazy idea," Ezelsplein commented, I wonder if the NBA will ever feature an artists basketball court in a league game?


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