Butterflies are probably one of the most familiar and common insects, and strangely enough, many people hate insects, but they don't hate butterflies, and even like butterflies. The reason is that the butterfly probably has some beautiful meanings on the body, for example, the butterfly's "butterfly" and the blessing of the "Fu" harmonic sound, there is a symbol of fulu auspiciousness, in addition, in ancient times, there is a folklore of "Liang Zhuhua butterfly", which believes that the butterfly symbolizes the love of life and death.
In addition to the beautiful meaning, the most popular reason for the butterfly is because it looks good, the butterfly has a variety of colorful colors, as well as a variety of patterns of beautiful wings, when it dances, it will bring people a sense of freedom, especially when they fly into the flowers, like a flexible and full of vitality of the fairy.
After saying such a half-day butterfly, Xiao Dai next wants to introduce you to a street artist who loves to paint butterflies, this street artist Mantra from France, turned the whole city into a large flower bush, countless butterflies dancing in it, as if the whole world has become a butterfly paradise, simply not too romantic, unbelievably realistic scene, leaving a deep impression on every passerby.
Mantra has loved all kinds of animals and plants since she was a child, and she has more respect and admiration for them in her heart than human feelings. When she was a child, she was often "wild" outside, and her figure never appeared in the football field or amusement park, but in the forest, lake, garden, and close contact with frogs, foxes, and various reptiles was the happiest thing for Mantra.
Mantra started the Butterfly Mural Project about two years ago. As we all know, street murals are generally very large in size, so as to ensure that they can bring people a strong and intuitive visual feeling in the open outdoors. However, the size of the butterfly is originally very small, no matter how large the butterfly is not the size of a person's palm, in order to let these butterflies "fly" into people's vision, the artist magnified the butterfly by dozens of times, or even hundreds of times, and the largest butterfly mural size is as high as a building.
In addition to the sheer size, Mantra also depicts a strong sense of light and shadow, making these butterflies look very three-dimensional and realistic, looking from a distance, as if huge butterflies are staying and perching on the walls. In some works, the artist also uses the principle of optical illusion, from a certain point of view, butterflies appear in a corner of our city like "becoming sperm".
The reason for creating this series of street art works, the artist said bluntly, is also to arouse people's attention and protection of wild animals and plants, hoping that people can fall in love with them, and then give them more living space. Okay, so let's take a look at the wonderful work created by this artist.