Mural Masks: Coronavirus Inspires Global Graffiti
In March 2020, the street artist Pobel created a wall painting called “Lovers” in Bryne, Norway. With his mural showing a young couple with masks kissing, he wants to give encouragement to people who find the current COVID-19 situation difficult. "I hope Lovers can make a positive contribution and spread some joy in people," he said on Instagram. "There are many of us in need now."
An Italian man wearing a face mask walks with his groceries past a mural in Milan that portrays a person wearing a gas mask.
A mural near the Colosseum in central Rome by Italian street artist TV Boy depicts a scene from the famous film Roman Holiday. Mask-wearing Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn hold a sign that says "Clear Air Now."
A tourist in Barcelona, Spain, poses for a souvenir photo next to graffiti showing the Mona Lisa wearing a mask, titled Mobile World Virus.
A man in Salamanca, Spain, walks past coronavirus graffiti.
A graffiti design by a 16-year-old boy named S.F. on the terrace of his home in central Athens.
A cyclist pushes his bicycle past spray-painted graffiti showing a character with a face mask in Budapest, Hungary.
A mural in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district depicts a girl's fear of the new coronavirus.
Graffiti sprayed on the ground in Munich, Germany, telling pedestrians to "stay home."
A mural of a health-care worker in Wetteren, Belgium, by street artist CAZ .
Graffiti artist Bram De Ceurt works on a street mural of a nurse in Antwerp, Belgium.
A mural by street artist Lionel Stanhope painted on a bridge wall in Ladywell, in southeast London.
Graffiti with the inscription "to win" in front of a hospital complex in the Kommunarka settlement in New Moscow, Russia.
A pregnant woman wearing a face mask walks past a street mural in Hong Kong on March 23.
A woman in a face mask cycles past graffiti painted on the wall of a construction site in Shanghai, China, on February 17.
A man wearing a face mask jogs on a beach past a mural showing a couple kissing with face masks in Venice, California.
The mural "My Child, Our Air" by Craig Cundiff is pictured in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood on March 24.
A Colombian special forces police officer stands in front of a mural in Bogota on March 21.
A delivery man rides past a mural of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wearing a face mask on a wall in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Bolsonaro has dismissed the risks posed by the coronavirus and has defied the advice of his country's own health minister to self-isolate.
A graffiti of Baby Yoda from the TV series The Mandalorian with a message to the citizens of Guatemala City to "wear a mask like baby Yoda."
An Indonesian woman walks past a mural that invites people to fight against the coronavirus in Surabaya, East Java.
A resident of Mumbia, India, walks past a depiction of the Buddha wearing a face mask on March 16.