Ador's Free Sheep and Horses — artwork #6939 by Ador · Le Mans, France
graffiti mouton sheep cheval humour Ador critique-sociale
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Ador is a French urban artist born in 1972 in Philadelphia, now based in Nantes where he has lived and worked for many years. Trained at the Beaux-Arts, he took up graffiti in 2003 and moved on to mural painting from 2005, starting on the walls of his own neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nantes. His work is populated by imaginary humanoid characters with long noses and large eyes, staged in what…
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Added 08/04/2023
On large metal panels at the Parc de Maulny in Le Mans, Ador stages a comical and anthropomorphic sheep with arms raised facing an army of massive, identical horses with fixed eyes. The absurd humor and social critique — the individual facing the conformism of the herd — are treated with the round, expressive line characteristic of Ador. The two stylistic registers, naïve and dark, reinforce the thematic contrast.
The artwork Le mouton libre et les chevaux d'Ador is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Le Mans in France, more precisely here: Gué de Maulny, 54 Rue des Batignolles, 72100 Le Mans, France.
This graffiti is also tagged as: mouton, sheep, cheval, humour, Ador, critique-sociale.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Ador
The photo was published on 08-04-2023 by Mephisroth.
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