Lushsux

About

Lushsux is a street artist from Melbourne, Australia who is best known for creating large, internet meme-themed murals.

History

In June 2011, the @Lushsux^[4] Twitter feed was created, garnering more than 17,900 followers over the next six years. In July 2014, the @Lushsux^[3] Instagram feed was launched, where the artist began sharing photographs of his murals painted on the side of trucks. On December 9th, the Lushsux Facebook^[2] page was created, which gathered upwards of 36,800 likes within three years. On October 16th, 2015, the first internet meme mural was posted on the feed, featuring Pepe the Frog (shown below, left).^[5] On October 29th, Lushsux posted a photograph of a Why the Fuck You Lyin' mural (shown below, right).^[6]

On July 24th, 2016, Lushsux posted a photograph of a mural featuring Hillary Clinton wearing a stars and stripes monokini (shown below, left). That week, Instagram temporarily disabled Lushsux's account. On July 28th,The Daily Mail ^[7] published an interview with Lushsux, who speculated that Instagram had censored his feed for posting the mural. On August 1st, the Instagram feed posted an updated version of the Hillary Clinton mural in which she is covered with a burqa (shown below, right). On August 10th, the fashion news site Hypebeast^[1] published an interview with Lushsux.

West Bank Mural

In late July, Lushsux painted a mural on Israel's separation wall in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestine based on an image macro of Donald Trump touching Jerusalem's Western Wall with the thought bubble "I'm going to build you a brother" (shown below).

50 Cent Murals

Lushsux' 50 Cent Murals refers to a series of murals of rapper 50 Cent done by Lushsux. The murals, based on photoshops by graphic designer Mister Morris and others, had 50 Cent crossed over with various celebrities, public figures and memes, prompting surprised responses from the rapper, with Lushsux proceeding to announce a "50 Cent month."

Various Examples

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