Faces on cans. Art project Can Men Series on the streets of Great Britain

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

British artist known by a strange pseudonym My dog sighs, in his hometown of Portsmouth, has probably long since become the darling of all street cleaning workers. The fact is that this author cannot calmly walk past the tin canwhether it is whole or wrinkled, rusty or shiny. He will definitely pick it up and carefully put it in his bag: soon this can will turn into a work of art, a funny character from an art project Can men serieswhich My Dog Sighs has been working on for quite some time. Street artist, husband, father, teacher, My Dog Sighs says about himself that he is literally obsessed with the idea of the need to introduce art to the masses, for which he founded the FreeArtFriday social movement, which would promote this idea. The artist does not specify how many people this movement counts, but he himself stubbornly follows his idea. Having picked up a tin can on the street, having painted it in his workshop, thereby turning the garbage into an art object, the artist again takes it out into the street, leaving the funny canning man where they are not expected to appear, and will be very surprised when they suddenly find it. They will be pleasantly surprised. Or maybe they want to take it with them and thus join the modern street art.

By painting different faces on cans, the artist gives them a second life, much more interesting and pleasant than the previous one. Men and women, clowns and villains, angels and demons, angry and kind, frightened and cheerful, characters from cans are so diverse that you only wonder how lively the author's inspiration is and how strong his desire is to paint the everyday life of his fellow citizens with cute little things made with his own hand in the name and for the sake of art.

The Can Men Series art project is spreading to the streets of Great Britain, and individual characters can be found in the most unexpected places of this or that city. You can see the artist's full portfolio on his website.