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Birdy Kids is a French-based street-art
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Career

Birdy Kids was created in 1989, in
Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
, France. , it had three members: Gauthier, Stéphane and Guillaume. The first graffiti that the collective made featured a bird (now known as "Birdy") along some of the ring roads of the Lyon area. Although it was first thought of as a degradation of public space, Birdy is now a symbol for the city, which explains why the graffiti remain untouched by the graffiti removal services. Since 2000, Birdy Kids have participated in several events promoting
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in other cities, including Paris and Barcelona. In 2012, Birdy Kids was chosen to be the cultural ambassador of Lyon.


Gallery

Streetart Birdy Kids (23854906613).jpg Birdy Kids (8566303124).jpg BIRDY KIDS street art (9091786555).jpg Lyon - "Birdy Kids" (16216015162).jpg Peinture-Birdy-Kids2 à l'école poyat.jpg Birds Kids (23925180990).jpg, In Barcelona


See also

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Street art Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art. Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant gr ...


References


External links

* {{Official website, http://birdykids.com/ Street art French graffiti artists Graffiti crews