There are many different kinds of street art. This particular variety happens to be beautifully and painstakingly rendered on a very large scale. Mac is a graffiti artist, his only message that of pure aesthetic beauty. He’s taken one of the artists’ worst nightmares (the human face) and makes it look easy.
His work is very painterly, even though he uses no brushes. He is a bit of a mysterious figure, despite being a perveyor of the legal kind of graffiti, and there is very little information out there about his methods.
What I do know is that his work is widely commissioned, and his murals often become the stuff of landmarks. MAC reminds us that our old antiquated notions of street art are in desparate need of an upgrade.
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