{"id":1051,"date":"2023-11-21T23:38:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T23:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:42:19","slug":"a-look-back-at-graffiti-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/a-look-back-at-graffiti-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back at graffiti in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a chance to visit Paris in 2012, and I took full advantage of my time there to visit the major museums, walk the streets, and explore different neighborhoods. One in particular that I wanted to visit was Montmartre, due to its significant role in art history, as the one-time home base for artists such as Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani, Monet, Dali, and Degas, among many others. <\/p>\n<p>I was struck by how much graffiti there was, perhaps I had some naive idea that in such an old and historic neighborhood, people wouldn&#8217;t tag the buildings, and thinking about that now, that certainly was a naive idea. At any rate, I really enjoyed seeing all of the street art and graffiti, and in some cases, enjoyed it just as much as some of the art I was seeing in the museums.<\/p>\n<p>I have a short clip of some of the graffiti seen in Montmartre, and while I wouldn&#8217;t call this extraordinary graffiti, it gives you an idea of what I was seeing and taking in at the time. If you look closely at a face on the wall at the 24 second mark, that was an image that later inspired a painting, which I&#8217;ll post below the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_u4ruEGHmnY?si=XXHX9SXxs3V6_Pa2\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the painting I mentioned above, titled &#8220;Faces from the Streets of Paris,&#8221; which I painted in 2016, and is an acrylic on canvas measuring 16 x 20 inches. It&#8217;s available for sale, <a href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/contact\/\" title=\"contact McKinney Arts\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">if you&#8217;re interested, let me know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3335\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/faces-from-the-streets-of-paris.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Faces from the Streets of Paris,&quot; 16 x 20 inch acrylic on canvas by artist Mark McKinney.\" width=\"850\" height=\"850\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/faces-from-the-streets-of-paris.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/faces-from-the-streets-of-paris-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/faces-from-the-streets-of-paris-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/faces-from-the-streets-of-paris-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Faces from the Streets of Paris,&#8221; 16 x 20 inch acrylic on canvas by artist Mark McKinney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a chance to visit Paris in 2012, and I took full advantage of my time there to visit the major museums, walk the streets, and explore different neighborhoods. One in particular that I wanted to visit was Montmartre, due to its significant role in art history, as the one-time home base for artists &#8230; <a title=\"A look back at graffiti in Paris\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/a-look-back-at-graffiti-in-paris\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A look back at graffiti in Paris\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,52],"tags":[338,510,580],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-found-art","category-video","tag-graffiti","tag-montmartre","tag-paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}