Gargantuan gummy bears. This street artist has turned gummy candy into lifesize art, depending on your perspective. The artist Leon Keer decorated the streets with giant gummy bears that appear life size when viewed from taller heights. These massive candy bears were located at the Malta Street Art Festival. To create his art piece, Keer uses chalk and paint. He mainly uses chalk for his street art and paint for his smaller paintings.
Keer is a Dutch pop-surrealist artist. He creates work on canvas and 3D artwork on the streets. He mainly paints contemporary themes involving environmental concerns and raises questions about the livability in the world. In the gummy bear piece, the green bear has fallen and died and his fellow comrades have gathered around the mourn.
Keer's work is interesting to me because he catches your eye with bright colored pieces. You may see gummy bears walking along the road, but to him the painting symbolizes gummy bears in mourning over their friend. His paintings make you think differently about the world. His technique is to paint something that will give everyone who sees it a different thought of what it's about. The thing that catches my attention in his paintings are the colors he uses. Keer uses bright colors on a more dull surface to draw you in. His paintings and street art symbolize how the world is changing.