Pickels,Produce, and a Huge Pictorial

This is the Besarabskaya Market of Kyiv, Ukraine,, so named after a

Southwest corner of Ukraine claimed in a war of the same name. It

features an old Soviet and older style market, a relic of the not so

distant past with fresh-butchered (and not refrigerated) meats

slaughtered almost always the same day, produce, pickles, flowers and

seasonal fruits as well as tinned extravagances like Caviar, almost

always of the red (salmon) variety. Fresh veal runs about $9 for a kilo or

about $4.00 for a pound, for a sirloin fillet, unobtainable in most of the

rest of Kyiv, or even Ukraine unless you live on a farm or have a farmer

neighbor. The colorful mural, top, is new. Your ratings and critiques are

invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, please

submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! John

Many habitant of Kiev negatively perceive such an innovation. It does not make a better style of this old building.

Pardon for letting your comment go for so long without a reply.  I had prepared a long one, but a computer 'glitch' ate it, and I was too tired to try to resurrect it.  It never got posted.

When I saw this new mural, I almost stopped dead in my tracks.

It is surreal in an aspect; in a place dedicated in part to butchery, it has a theme of killing (see knives wielded by citizens obviously intent on doing no good)? 

My first thought was Pinchuk had influence here; he's a collector of the works of Damien Hirst, world's richest artist, and the Pinchuk Gallery, Eastern Europe's largest private museum/gallery is at 2A and this is at No. 2, even though they are across the street.

I'd be so surprised to learn if (steel magnate and billionaire-- one of Ukraine's two richest men) Pinchuk, was not behind this giant mural.

I don't venerate old buildings, especially those of the East so much, and am less offended, but more wondering.

I do remember that of all the medieval churches and cathedrals, many were changed over time with a new nave here and a new tower there, often added hundreds of years later, and tongues often probably wagged sayng 'it doesn't any longer look the same;it was fine before and why did they change it?'

Well, photographically I found it interesting and wonder if it's permanent.  I suppose it is, and didn't survey the attitude of the work people there about it.  I am sure it will bring some tourists from the Pinchuk gallery into the Bessarabsky market (named for a part of Southwest Ukraine, near Odessa).

Apologies again for not responding sooner; your comments are very important to me and do not go unnoticed.

john

John (Crosley)