While athletes compete for diverse titles at Rio’s ongoing Olympic Games , i Brazilian graffiti creative somebody Eduardo Kobra is attempting to enter the Guinness World Record for the largest mural created. Painted on the walls of a formerly abandoned warehouse inwards Rio , the mural , entitled “Etnias” , covers to a greater extent than than iii ,000 foursquare meters together with stretches 109 meters. The brightly colored artwork portrays the faces of v indigenous men together with women from v continents —a concept that was based on the v Olympic Rings.
Approximately 100 gallons of white pigment , 1 ,500 liters of colored pigment , together with at to the lowest degree iii ,500 cans of spray pigment were used to consummate the composition , which took Kobra’s squad 2 months working for at to the lowest degree 12 hours a day.
If Kobra’s entry is accepted , it volition trounce the current-record holder Mexican creative somebody Ernesto Rocha’s mural past times well-nigh twice the size.
