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List Of Hotel Nearby The Street Art
Brick Box Hotel
- Address : 31, Jalan Dato Maharajalela, 30000 Ipoh,perak
- contact : +605-2533131
- Price : single room - RM 99.70
Sekeping Kong Hong Hotel
- Address : 74, Jalan Bandar Timah, 30000, Ipoh, Perak.
- Contact : +6012-2272745
- Price : contact this property for rates.
DG One Stop Budget Hotel
- Address : 126, Jalan Sultan Yussuf, 30000, Ipoh, Perak.
- Contact : +05-2420777
- price : standard room - RM 52.06
Container Hotel Ipoh
- Address : 91, Jalan Sultan Yusuff, 30000,Ipoh, Perak.
- Contact : +05- 2433311
- Price : single room - RM 39.05
Art Mural By Local Artist
In early 2013, there are some street painting are started at the back lane parallel to Jalan Sultan Iskandar dan Jalan Masjid. There was a series of mural paiting by Eric Lai and his art student. Eric Lai run an art school Artgene Studio at Bercham, His earlier four mural has cultural theme but his last three mural art were children acivities. Undoubtedly these scene are depicted a time. Lai's interest stems for his youth when his mother used to create images on the wall of their house.
The first mural painting that are famous on social media and tradisional media was Lion Dance near the junction Jalan Datuk Onn Jaafar. It has total 10 mural art at the lane.
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| Kinta Valley is famous with the tin mining |
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| The waterfall with some kids playing around |
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| indian classical dancer |
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| Horse dance is one of cultural dance |
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| Rubber plantation famous at Kinta Valley |
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| Playing Earle gaming,another person must safe the hen from eagle. |
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| A lady mining the tin core. |
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| The image show related to time bygone era. |
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| Lion dance near the main street at Jalan Datuk Onn Jaafar. |
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| Hide and seek was one famous game for those day kid. |
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| One of kids start the hide amd seek game. |
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A Brief Introduction About Street Art.
In recent years, the Street Art in Malaysia has picked up quite a bit where many local nd international artist have done some art pieces here and there. Not to be confused, but there are a few terms that this form or art is being called. Most call it Street Art while some call it Street Painting or Street Murals.
At first in year 2012, it's started at Penang by Ernest Zacharevic. The street art of wall painting that brought by a Lithunian artist has become popular in Penang, it also emerges in Ipoh in 2013 by local artist. Our local artist started the street art the back of the lane Hugh Low Street and Hume Street, the block nearby Kinta River. In year 2014, Earnest Zacharevic came to Ipoh to do the project " Art of Oldtown" by Oldtown White Coffee. He has start to draw the mural in the everal place in Ipoh.
Art Mural by Ernest Zacharevic
Ernest Zacharevic one of the artist who painted murals on Ipoh Wall Art Murals and called the "Art of Oldtown" . He was the same man who painted murals on wall along the streets of Penang's Georgetown. Ernest Zacharevic painted 7 spots around Ipoh Old Town.
Ernest Zacharevic
The 7 painted walls are "Old Uncle with Coffee Cup" at Jalan Dato Maharajalela the mural shows a portrait of an old uncle drinking coffee. It’s located nearby the famous franchise OldTown White Coffee eatery facing the Ipoh Field.
"Paper Plane" at Jalan Sheikh Adam it shows 2 children enjoying their childhood with a paper plane.
"Hummingbird" at Jalan Panglima the mural depicts a hummingbird hovering close by a tree in search of food.
"Evolution" at Jalan Bijeh Timahshows Ipoh’s evolution from a tin-mining town back in the colonial days.
"Girl" at Jalan Bandar Timah illustrates a girl tiptoeing on a classic red plastic chair while reaching toward a cage of birds.
Ipoh Mural Art History!!
In recent years, the Street Art in Malaysia has picked up quite a bit where many local and international artist have done some art pieces here and there. Not to be confused, but there are a few terms that this form or art is being called. Most call it Street Art while some call it Street Paintings or Street Murals.
While it may be new to some, many would already know the one who started it all, Ernest Zacharevic who first start the street art in Penang in 2012. Today, there are mainly 10 cities including Ipoh around Malaysia that hosts these amazing street art paintings in various locations. Depending on where you visit in Malaysia, you may most likely encounter some of them without even trying as they are usually located in high tourist areas.
The picture below shows paintings on the wall created by local artist appear at back lane of Hugh Low Street and Hume Street, the block nearby Kinta River. The paintings are mainly illustrating local culture and history, such as folk dances, tin mining, traditional games and so on.
There is an art exhibition held by art studio at the back lane and had attracted quite a number of visitors. Apart from the mural painting, the studio also present many student art works and it certainly keeps the visitors' camera busy for capturing the masterpiece. It did not stop the people from attending this exhibition despite the warm weather in the afternoon.
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