Public art:
My city was Prague, which was pretty exciting since I knew nothing of the city. David Cerny was a very well known artist around the city, one of his well known pieces of art is in the bottom right: Cerny took a soviet tank and painted it pink as an apology to Bulgarians.
You can not mention Prague without mentioning the John Lennon wall. Beginning in the 1900s, the citizens of Prague were restricted by what they were allowed to speak about. So they began to paint the Beatles lyrics on the wall at night and during the day the government would paint over the wall. Every night people would come back and paint on the wall again; after countless times the government decided to stop painting over the expressive artwork. To this day the wall is still painted white for other people to add new painting if love and peace.
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