Mission Murals

Here are some murals from around the Mission, one of my favorite neighborhoods in San Francisco. I spend a good amount of my weekends walking around the area, and these are only a few examples of the great artwork that can be found there. Whether they're bright and simple icons or complicated images across entire building facades, I appreciate them all (I don't always 'get' public art but I get that it's important). I don't know much about their creators, but I have some links to further reading and tour info below.

More reading:

http://www.sanfrancisco.travel

Precita Eyes

7x7
http://dirt.asla.org/2012/10/15/why-public-art-is-important/

A California Castle

Wikipedia

At the beginning of our Big Sur roadtrip, we stopped at Hearst Castle, the publisher's former estate off Highway 1 just south of Big Sur. The property is now a state park and a gorgeous museum. It took decades to build, and was designed by Hearst and Julia Morgan, a prolific Bay Area architect who was also the first licensed female one in California. (She also designed a community center right in my neighborhood, no big deal.)

Botero sculpture in front of Museo Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia