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(14 Aug 2023)

BULGARIA STREET ART

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Staro Zhelezare, Bulgaria - 11 August 2023

1. Villager passes by murals depicting politicians and animated movie characters
2. Various of a wall showing Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden and Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s Secretary General, and Smurfs characters with their quotes alongside
3. Various of wall painted with Poland's President Andrzej Duda and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
4. Mural showing Ukrainian and Russian President depicted together with Kung Fu Panda character, reading (English) 'Enough words. Time to fight'
5. Various of local resident walking and sitting on a bench in the central part of the village, murals depicting Indira Gandhi and Fidel Castro
6. Wide of murals showing Pele, Maradona and Simpsons family, bench in foreground
7. Mid of Simpsons family mural on old wooden doors
8. Wide of mural on a wall depicting former US president Donald Trump riding on a cart pulled by a tractor
9. The Beatles depicted on a wall next to portrait of a local villager
10. Mural showing improvised work mixing themes inspired by Van Gogh and Banksy
11. Various of art student Gary Cattell working on his wall paintings
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Cattell, art student:
“I think Ventsi (Ventsislav Piryankov) has come up with a great idea here, to do something different in the village. And so for us as art students, we come here, we learn something, and we've got walls to paint on, and the village then has something that generates people coming into the village and hopefully that helps the village survive and generates interest in people coming here.”

13. Gary Cattell painting
14. Various of a student artist working on the portrait of author J. R. R. Tolkien
15. Various of mural showing "The Little Prince and the Fox", students working on it
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Karolina Koslewska, art student:
“For artists art is the great way to express their feelings, emotions, with the war especially. So it’s a great way to express the frustration that we have inside about the meaningless war going on right now.”

17. Close of the Little Prince mural
18. Mother pushing a stroller as she walks near murals showing local villager on a horse next to Napoleon Bonaparte on his horse
19. Wall paintings showing French President Emmanuel Macron and Scooby-Doo characters
20. Villager driving past a painted reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Pink Cow
21. Various of US President Joe Biden depicted next to the Pink Cow
22. Shepherd with his herd crossing the street
23. German chancellor Olaf Scholz painted next to Shrek and Princess Fiona characters
24. Various of local villagers sitting on benches as murals are seen on nearby walls
25. Characters of Jack Sparrow and Doctor Dolittle paintings painted on a house wall
26. Paintings of characters of Jack Sparrow and Captain Hook on a house wall
27. Various of Jack Sparrow and Doctor Dolittle character portraits on a house wall
28. Wide of interior of Museum of Street Art
29. Artist and curator Katarzyna Piryankov painting a sign on a wall in the Museum
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Katarzyna Piryankov, artist and curator:

31. Bag decorated with prints of the artworks in the village
32. Portrait of Elon Musk next to Disney character Scrooge McDuck and planet Earth, sign reading (English) “how much is it?

LEAD IN :

A small village in Bulgaria has become a center for street art.


STORYLINE :


Colourful Smurfs appear on walls alongside world leaders.


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