Street Art: Martin Ron's "Badgergate" Mural

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Martin Ron is a street artist from Argentina, and he visited London and just finished painting a large mural on the Village Underground. His work features surreal subjects. The large mural on the Village Underground features a hand (modelled by his girlfriend), a man (modelled by his flatmate), and a badger. According to an interview with StreetArtLondon (1), he chooses humour in his work because the public appreciate it.

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The subject of the mural, named 'Badgergate', focuses on the badger against a large machine. Martin choose to paint this because the first news he heard in the UK was about badgers, and he thought they were a pretty animal (1). The mural took a week to paint. I love the green hatch-marks on the background and the mural and think that the badger and the hand are painted well. This mural brightens up the area.

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Detail of the badger

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Detail of the tiles

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The scale of the work

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Martin Ron's work 'Badgergate' in progress

1) Badgergate - Martin Ron Paints the VU Wall. http://streetartlondon.co.uk/blog/2013/08/28/badgergate-martin-ron-paints-the-vu-wall-2/ [28 August, 2013].

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