Art set free

Have you heard of the Outings Project? It all started with French artist and filmmaker Julien de Casabianca who wanted to free the lesser characters from corners of museums who might not get seen by the public. In particular it was an Ingres painting of a female prisoner in the Louvre, he felt by bringing her image into the street that in a way she could be freed - and seen by hundreds and thousands of people who might not have set foot in the Louvre gallery. 

The Outings Project went beyond his expectations, after posting images on social media others took up his mantle and snapped art from all over the world and pasted the printed graphics on graffitied street corners and juxtaposed them in urban spaces.

I love this whole idea. Art should be for the masses not the select few. I also like that taking an element of something old and putting it in a new context it becomes transformed. I am sure the artists would not have minded the great exposure either! 

You can see more at Colossal. Join the movement!