Artists create with whatever is at hand. For Moscow’s Nikita Golubev, that is dirt on cars.
“We all have drawn on dirty cars when were children,” said the young Muscovite. “I just scaled my idea to a much bigger one.”
Bigger—and more beautiful.
Using only his fingers or a brush Golubev creates images out of ugliness. He creates mini-masterpieces on the backs of trucks and the sides of cars, turning some of the ugliest objects in the city streets into the most enjoyable.
He finds cars and trucks—preferably white—which are covered with dirt. These are common enough on Moscow’s streets in the wintertime.
With his fingers, or sometimes a brush, he transforms the dirt into transient works of art. “Everything is washed away with the first rain,” Golubev explained. “It goes away and nothing remains.”
If it were not for the photos posts on social media, most of his car art would never be seen.
Fellow Muscovites do consider what he does to be art.
“I think that this is can be a part of the concept of the modern art—the art in action, the art in development,” said one Moscow resident, 56-year-old Pavel Khlestkin. “This is the art in development.”
“I do not think it is something new. Look around, we have paintings not only on cars, but painting are drawn everywhere,” said 35-year-old Tatiana Lvova. “It is part of what humans want to express.”
Golubev takes his dirt-painting much less seriously. “This is the art just for fun,” he said.
