In the Arkhangelsk team of artists completed work on a large graffiti with the image of the veteran and the boy on the wall of the nine-floor house down the street Softina, 32.
As reported by the regional Department on Affairs of youth, the artists of the all-Russian art project “Tavrida” Artem Khazanov Andrey Ptitsyn at the graffiti took several weeks, as to draw from the elevated work platforms is not always the weather allowed. The picture height of nine stories under the title “the Dream of a grandson” was the first mural in Arkhangelsk – the so-called large images on the walls of buildings and structures.
graffiti, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory, shows a world war II veteran in dress uniform with many medals, which hugs the little boy in his cap. Touching the painting symbolizes the connection between generations. The house, which appeared graffiti special: in this live lonely veterans, homefront workers, there is a prisoner of the concentration camps, it is also the city Council of veterans.
According to the authors of the project, they showed a collective image of the veteran, but has inspired artists photograph taken on Victory Day in 2016 on the Mamaev Kurgan. As found by journalists in Arkhangelsk, it depicts a veteran of the great Patriotic war Ivan Walker born in 1922, who lives in the Smolensk region. Upon learning that his image is depicted on the wall in the distant Arkhangelsk, the veteran was asked to send him a photo of this painting in memory.
Graffiti will be complemented with modern technologies near the house will be placed an information sign with a bar code, which links to a smartphone you can see the plot of the film.
the art-project “Heroes of the great Victory” has allocated more than 1.1 million rubles from the reserve Fund of the regional government.
