The city of Valparaiso Chile is full of over a thousand large scale open air art murals, some like the one above, cover the walls of multi-story buildings.
The first murals were painted by art students from a local university in the 1960’s and 70’s, in an area of the city called Cerro Bellavista.
This area is now a landmark named El Museo a Cielo Abierto (The Open Air Museum).
Valparaiso in entirety was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003.
Walking in this city wide open air art museum, one is struck not only by the talent of the amazing artists,
but also by their appreciation of the beauty,
joy, and humor of life.
To this day, artists are continuing to add their talented contributions to this remarkable city.
Valparaiso is a magnet attracting artists of all kinds. Their artistry makes visiting here a pure joy.
Cheers to you from beautiful Valparaiso and her amazing artists~
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Très joli et très coloré, un de nos futur voyage, ma belle soeur travaille là bas, en tant que professeur de sciences.
Oh c’est merveilleux! J’espère que vous postez vos photos lors de votre visite.
So much more interesting that our usual Berkley Beige all over the neighborhoods in the USA! -Oscar
Oh, the beige on beige in US cities and suburbs is the bane of my existence. People in the US seemed afraid of color. Even our cars are mono-chromatic! Bring back the blues, greens, yellows. I am so tired of grey, white, silver, and black cars!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful place!
I always am amazed by big art works like these. Love the color and especially the one that has a cat sticks its paw into the fish bowl.
Isn’t the cat with the fish wonderful. I loved the humor in it. Thanks for stopping by & Happy Caturday!
Ah, Cindy – how COOL! Thank you for taking us…could have stayed forever!
You are an excellent travel companion Leya! Cheers to you <3
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That looks so amazing, what wonderful artist…what stunning colours . Thank you for taking us there!
I love traveling with you my friend <3
One of our neighbors is from Chile – such lovely images. A beautiful place with beautiful people.
Yes, a fascinating, varied, and justifiably proud country.
Wonderful to see the colorful art – you captured the amazing talent of the local artists.
And they are so generous to share their talent for everyone to enjoy. An open air museum with no entry fee <3
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Thank you for your kind thoughtfulness & cheers to you!
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Thank you!
This is art of the heart and the soul – proudly and beautifully expressed for all to see.
So good, so lovely ! Thanks for sharing it with us too. ❤
How can you not love street art such as this? There is so much to observe, and appreciate, and learn hidden in the surface beauty. The cats were my favorites. Wonderful pics, Cuz 🌺🐱🌹
The cats are my favorite too cuz. Cheers to you from Orca Island <3
What an exceptional variety, and all so beautiful. Fabulous post.
Very pleased you enjoyed & thank you for letting me know!
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Here are beautiful photographs of outside art in Valparaiso, Chile, from Cindy Knoke!
Thank you for your kindness Charles. People like you are why I love blogging!
Wow! This is amazing! Wonderful collection! <3
We have lots of super talented people in this world! So glad you enjoyed~
When we were there somebody told us the artwork was started as a means to cut down on graffiti.
These are unique. I haven’t seen any like this. How very colorful they are! Best wishes for an awesome week, Cindy. Cheers!
Pure joy!
Oh wow, I want to visit. There are some places in Glasgow and London that would really benefit from such vibrant and colourful, talented artistry. I drove through the City yesterday and there is some ugly graffiti and lots of litter and I would love to just colour it all over.
I so agree. Take a run down and neglected area and turn the artists living there loose to turn into an outdoor art gallery, drawing people, and their cash back to the area. Pure genius! Everyone wins. <3
stunning work!
So much talent in this world!
Beautiful work!
Aren’t they amazing artists!
I cannot imagine what kind of excitement one can get in that museum! Awesome place and pictures!
Thank you Alexander. It is inspiring to visit and humbling to realize how talented so many people are.
I love this art movement. Let us see more.
Awww, so appreciated! Thank you and I will show you more. These artists so deserve the recognition for their talent and unselfishness.
Amazing. So colourful. Thank you for sharing, Cindy! Have a beautiful week! Michael
Thank you Michael for appreciating these oh so talented artists!
They are really unique and professional. Michael
Very talented and generous people.
Think so too. Thank you Cindy!
So inspiring. Thanks for this post. I like all of them. The paintings are so powerful and colorful 🙂
These wonderful artists transformed a city. How cool is that!
Very cool. I wish we had artists like that over here 🙂
They donate their talent to make life more beautiful for all of us <3
Yes they do and it’s lovely 🙂
<3 <3
So wonderful! I love good streetart!
I do too and the artists who gift it to us!
Looking again here. (Great thing about online travel: you can drop everything snd go. And go back whenever) Bright stuff, an energy and attitude I haven’t experienced, but admire, sometimes wish for. Hard to come by in buttoned-down, manicured suburban mid-west.. Grateful for you!
Online travel has no congested airplanes with airplane germs, no lost baggage, and no cost. It is the best way to fly! Your comment touched my <3 Thank you! And I do know exactly what you mean. In so many countries color is celebrated, mixed around, used so creatively. I love it. I come home to beige on beige American suburbs and wonder why we are so timid about color.
I saved the yellow cat one. Even though the sign says no stopping, each time I do the cat stops me from thinking. I just smile for a while.
I meant to say, the whole thing stops me: the colors, the forms, the story, the sign, and the facts that someone made this right there in the street, and that you thought to put into your little electronic museum. Cheers all around!
You know the amazing thing about the sign? The artist incorporated the painting around it. How cool is that! I just loved the cleverness and whimsy, and how it captured the the cat’s cute cattiness. Cheers back to you Albert. It is lovely to meet you here in our peaceful electronic world.
Just wow, the art looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for appreciating these generous artists Annabel <3
Thats incredible!
Lucky people to live in this beautiful place, but they deserve it because they take such good care of it.
It’s nice to see people take such good care of their community.
These artworks are so beautiful. I really admire their talent. Thank you so much for sharing. Just looking at these gave me so much happiness
Your happiness just made be so happy. Thank you for telling me, and thank these amazing artists who are making so many people happy, for free.
Thank You showing these – gorgeous pics. I visited Valparaiso in 2004, when my daughter was working in Santiago de Chile during three months, then we did not see these..
Happy you enjoyed them and wonderful that you have been to both Valparaiso and Santiago.
Amazing. 🙂 And lovely bright vibrant colours. 🙂
Yes the colors create such beauty. Thank you!
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Grazie mille <3
Absolutely stunning!
Grazie mille <3
Valparaíso en la noche,
Siento tus pasos de baile,
Van recorriendo mi cuerpo,
Van despertando mi sangre,
Valparaíso en la noche,
Eres más libre que el aire. (…)
From ‘Valparaiso en la noche’, a beautiful song by Angel Parralog is marvellous
P.S. – Cindy, your site is marvellous! 🙂
From ‘Valparaiso en la noche’, a beautiful song by Angel Parra 🙂
Thank you so much & lovely to meet you! დ
You are so kind, Cindy! Have a nice week.