paintings

    Chile Trip, Part 3: Valparaíso, City of Colour

    This port city is a bit rougher than Santiago, but its artwork is more established and more substantial.

    This is where we stayed, and the view from the window of the breakfast room:


    And here’s the same mural from ground level.

    Some of the artists like figures with way too many eyes:

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    Or way too many crowns:

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    The art doesn’t stop taggers, though:

    If your canvas is a wide stretch of concrete, sometimes your subject has to be sideways:

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    And a few more:

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    It was hard to reach the sea because of the port and the railway line. So we took the train a few kilometres along the coast to Viña del Mar, where there’s a beach:

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    Back in Valparaíso proper the dogs are parked everywhere, as usual, and there are funiculars, because it’s very hilly:

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