{"id":29566,"date":"2018-08-09T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=29566"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:19:02","slug":"is-this-greenpoint-mural-a-surrealist-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/is-this-greenpoint-mural-a-surrealist-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this Greenpoint Mural a Surrealist Masterpiece?"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are murals all over New York City, in fact, there are murals all over the world, however these murals pale when displayed next to the mural that takes up one-third of the back side wall of an apartment building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Just outside the exit of\u00a0Greenpoint Car<\/em>\u00a0Wash,\u00a0<\/em>over on McGuiness and Engert,\u00a0sits a hidden gem of the Brooklyn art world, a mural by graffiti artist Home.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What makes this mural so top notch? It’s a modern surrealist vision. Its subjects, skillful artistry, its ability to draw the eye towards itself, and just plain strangeness, are all reasons this particular work of wall art stands out among the crowd (which is pretty hard to do when there is a massive mural of Bruce Lee just down the road on Driggs and North 8th street).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The overall picture: what appears to be a room that has no roof, with a window that looks out onto nothing (or perhaps just the clear blue sky), a set of disembodied eyes peering off out the window, a white and black polka dotted snake, that has no head and which disappears into the wall, as well there is a moon on the wall just above where the snake hits the wall, and large square painting-within-a-painting that displays the word HOME. Below the room, there is a floor like a tin roof, is a layer of what looks like dirt, and just below that is a train passing underneath the room.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n