Monday 1 March 2021

Every Year,

 a popular French resort dedicated to urban art, 


hosts a national competition to crown the nation’s most impressive street art, the coastal city of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, was recently crowned France’s most beautiful street artwork for 2020, after casting thousands of votes the winner for this amazing trompe-l-oeil fresco was Spanish street artist Gonzalo Borondo, on the city’s rue Jules Baudelocque, last summer, from the right angle, it looks like an elaborate metal gate, with detailed bas-reliefs on either side, but a closer look reveals it to be just an optical illusion, for more optical illusions like this have a look here

as it happens Gonzalo Borondo’s street artwork is unfinished, because of the rain, the Spanish artist could only work his magic for four days, instead of the planned seven, so he is expected back this year to finish the masterpiece, if it already looks good enough to win the prestigious Golden Street Art prize, imagine how good it will look when it is finished.


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