A Colourful, Crazy World: King of Colour, Corbusier; hats on UK mail boxes; and murals worldwide

 I read about a woman who painted her door pink in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a conservation area. She was fined and told to repaint the door in muted colours to match the general historic colour scheme of the area.

Some people can't resist painting a door or wall in a bright jolly colour. Or even painting a scene, or a trompe l'oeuil. Or a political statement or amusing image.

Britain has Banksy in Bristol, England. More Banksy pictures appear in London, and in galleries, and on walls worldwide.

Tenby in Wales has colourful external walls. 

London has amusing and colourful knitted and crochet post box toppers.

More murals in Brixton. Others in London's East End.

Valparaiso, Chile, South America

Rio, S America

But the cold, wet and windy seasides also have colour.

Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

In Europe, after WW2 Corbusier put colour on a block of flats in Marseilles, France. Oddly, for years I knew about the colours, which were so rarely copied. But the most remarkable thing about his blocks of flats was the creation of a village in the sky with an internal street with shops and amenities.

Incidentally, a seated statue of Corbusier, who I consider the king of colour, is in Moscow, Russia.

Useful Websites

USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mural_Arts_Philadelphia

CANADA

https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/a-little-colour-city-of-toronto-commissions-artists-to-hand-paint-designs-on-traffic-signal-boxes

UK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_box_topper

For and against a pink front door in a conservation area>

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63426312

How the Greeks and Romans painted statues which we display as plain white

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0crtd9v/chromophobia-who-stole-the-colour-from-classical-art-?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=exchange&tblci=GiBp0WTFUBI3-65A4u54LMQJIAg3dAXEJn6N03WDlMTAAiCMjFQott6FnJijnNWtAQ#tblciGiBp0WTFUBI3-65A4u54LMQJIAg3dAXEJn6N03WDlMTAAiCMjFQott6FnJijnNWtAQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromophobia

S AMERICA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela_Painting

INDIA

https://www.livepeppy.com/chalrangde/

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/584693964137505850/

Worldwide

https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/colourful-towns

https://www.rd.com/list/towns-colorful-houses/

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