So all that brutalist architecture, what if we just painted it? Not one colour, patterns to break it up. - eviltoast

Has this been done somewhere?

Any other ways to make it look better than tearing it down? Whole bunch of fake glass?

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      1 year ago

      Imagine someone buys the Mona Lisa and declares that its not art and da Vinci grafittied their privately owned piece of canvas. Artists around the globe in shambles.

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      You’re right, but you have to draw the line somewhere. If someone decides to light a building on fire and call it “performance art,” nobody considers it anything but a crime. If someone spray-paints a vulgarity on the side of a school, few would call that “art,” but a mural on the side of a concrete wall is “street art.” The subject matter and the quality of the painting doesn’t make the determination between art and vandalism; it’s just vandalism.