Brilliant Street Art in Kaunas, Lithuania, Kaunas, Lithuania (B)

Kaunas, Lithuania, is a great city to discover urban art. The murals in Kaunas are really impressive and it even has an entire courtyard full of street art!

There’s so much street art in Kaunas and it’s so brilliant! Walking around the city you’ll come across large and impressive murals, cool paste-ups and one magical courtyard full of art. It’s evident that the city respects and values its artists, and they in return make wonderful pieces that put smiles on people’s faces.

Two characters from Leonardo da Vinci paintings turned contemporary with headphones on a chess board. It covers the wall of the Kaunas University of Technology.

This is a well know mural showing Jurgis Mačiūnas smoking a pipe and sitting in an impossible position on a building. You can see this mural when you exit Kaunas Castle and it’s difficult to ignore. It’s worth getting closer to see the work in full.

The wise old man in the painting was a Lithuanian artist, the father of the Fluxus movement in the 1960s. It was a multi disciplinary art movement that was quite revolutionary. After this mural was made, it was adopted by the city as one of its symbols. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).