I don't know if my friends remember
Graffiti wall on Moganshan Road?
It was once a well-known literary and artistic resort in Shanghai.
From Changhua Road to West Suzhou Road,
Imaginative imagination and color graffiti
On the wall, it exudes a unique literary atmosphere.
Today although the graffiti wall is gone
But graffiti creation doesn't stop!
The graffiti was transferred to the M50 park
The new walls inside continue to grow
Not long ago
A painted wall also appeared in Chengdu
But behind this piece of painted wall
There is a story about "fairy love"
On April 24, the topic of "Chengdu guys are afraid of walking at night because their girlfriend is afraid of walking at night, and they deliberately paint on the wall of the way she must go home" was on the hot search of the short video platform.
According to the author Mr. Zhang:
"I myself am engaged in wall painting,
I was thinking about the night when my girlfriend passed by this wall
Seeing interesting paintings distracts her,
Alleviate her fear of walking home at night. ”
Mr. Zhang said that after the residents and the street office learned of his idea, they were very supportive of it, and in order to facilitate his painting, they also treated the wall for him.
Image source Interviewee
Image source Interviewee
Mr. Zhang's behavior of "drawing a street" for his girlfriend has also attracted the envy of many netizens, who have said "What is this fairy love!" "Techno-tech love" "Also want a boyfriend who can draw on the wall."
At present, many young people have begun to support themselves by painting on the street wall, and gradually become a fixed occupation in China. In the Case of Mr. Zhang's Chengdu area, "the current wall painting workers in Chengdu have probably reached the scale of several thousand people." ”
Mr. Zhang said that in the industry, this profession is generally called wall painter or graffiti artist, but most of them prefer the former title, "because in the circle, before becoming famous, they generally do not like to call themselves artists." Mr. Zhang told reporters with a smile.
Mr. Zhang said that the act of random graffiti on the street is now rare in the circle, basically a work need, "sometimes the government will invite us to paint in their local area, so there will be no restrictions on painting on the street, we will report to the relevant units before we start creating." ”
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It is understood that due to the influence of the weather or the amount of orders received, Mr. Zhang's current income is not particularly stable, only one or two thousand income at the lowest time of the month, the average annual income is about 100,000 yuan, and he creates a designed wall painting cycle of about 8-10 days. Mr. Hou, who is also a wall painter, told reporters that a wall painting is charged according to the size of the wall, and the lowest time a wall painting is one or two thousand yuan, and the maximum total price can reach more than 100,000 yuan. "But this kind of list of hundreds of thousands is difficult to encounter, and the competition is very fierce." Speaking of this, Mr. Hou sighed helplessly.
Talking about why you chose the profession of wall painter, "If there is no high-quality channel, just starting from the love of painting art, it is actually quite difficult to choose this job, but because I like it, I can continue to stick to it." Mr. Zhang said that fortunately, his girlfriend and parents were very supportive of him.
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Source: Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News (trainee reporter Xu Shaoda)
Edit: Berlin