George Floyd Mural with Crown

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Creator

Will Power
@theartofwillpower
Kurt Boone Street Art Plywood Photo Collection

Title

George Floyd Mural with Crown

Coverage

First Street Green Park 33 East 1st Street, NY, NY, USA

Description

A large black and grey portrait of George Floyd is created using two joining flat surfaces. The black and white portrait is surrounded by a multicolored, mixed media background. The portrait is topped with a black crown adorned with gold lettering reading “brutality,” “racism,” and “heavy is the head that wears the crown.” The tips of the crown has vertical repeating script reading “I can’t breath” and “say his name” in tribute to George Floyd’s last words and what was chanted at protests later.
The multicolored background is composed mostly of blue-green and red-orange washes. The paint is done in layers including some partially obscured background script. Red script is layered on top reading, “Flint one day soon…,” “love,” “Mike,” “*171*,” “freedom,” “SJK,” ‘unity,’ “snake I ya-dig,” and “equality.” Other writing appears, though it is not immediately legible. Additional signs and symbols are seen through the piece with the addition of ripped ads pasted over the paint around all four edges. A small black and white dove is seen on the right of portrait. At the bottom of the mural the handle of the artist is seen, @theartofwillpower.
The complexity of the piece is centered around the portrait of George Floyd and the strong use of colors helps to achieve this. This mural was created as part of the project Shared Freedom Protest Art 2020 which took place in the East Village section of Manhattan from September 13th- November 3rd.

Rights

COPYRIGHT TITLE: KURT BOONE STREET ART PLYWOOD PHOTO COLLECTION NYC
CONTACT: WWW.KURTBOONEBOOKS.COM
IG: @kurtboonephotography

Publisher

Urban Art Mapping Research Project

Date

Contributor

RW

Identifier

UAM-GF_1730

Original Format

Mural

Geolocation

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