A graffiti
portraying Lionel Messi on tiptoes kissing arch-rival Cristiano Ronaldo has
caused a stir in Barcelona, just two days before the seaside city's team faces
Real Madrid in a crux game.
The graffiti
on a bus stop in central Barcelona shows the Argentina and Barcelona star
embracing and tenderly kissing his Portuguese Real Madrid rival, a football at
their feet and a rose in Messi's hand, drawing many camera-wielding tourists.
The artist Tvboy
said he had been inspired by the fact that Sunday's El Clasico game happens to
fall on April 23 -- which is when people in Barcelona and the wider region of
Catalonia celebrate their very own Valentine's Day.
"I'm
looking for a message of hope and positivity. With all the clashes there have
been in football between hooligans, I want to say: 'be calmer'," he said.
"Messi
and Cristiano are opponents, I know they would never kiss. But art must portray
an ideal world, it must astonish, provoke."
Tvboy is an
Italian from Milan who has lived for 13 years in Barcelona, whose streets have
become his canvas.
His latest
project dubbed "Love is blind" started during the US election
campaign, during which he drew Republican candidate and current president
Donald Trump kissing his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton.
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