Montreal has over 3,500 murals. We spent an afternoon and found about 100 of them. Some of the 100 or so are featured below.
The wall decorations range from wonderful creative murals through to straight careless random tagging.
What bothered me the most was the tagging of the murals. I don't think I've ever seen such disregard for artwork before.
The largest mural, at 22 stories tall, is of Leonard Cohen in central Montreal.
It would be difficult to pick one favourite, but a few that I quite liked were:
On a smaller scale, this mural adjacent to a doorway to a home caught my eye.
There is a group of similar murals by a single artist on Maisonneuve Boulevard.
With two more nearby by the same artist again.
The Saint Laurent Boulevard area, north of Sherbrooke, has a concentration of murals.
Three of the above have some tagging: the twin bulls, the rooster and the lady with the tear. But some of the worst examples:
Even another Leonard Cohen mural (the one done for the Mural Festival) has some tagging, although I tried to hide most of it when taking the photograph.
Other interesting murals were;
A few businesses had murals incorporated into their décor.
A few of the murals are past their best before date.
A few were more for fun.
Some of the wall art was more difficult to classify, but perhaps a step above graffiti.
But like some other cities, Montreal has its graffiti alley.
In a completely different part of town on Sherbrooke out by the Botanical Gardens I found this building with 4 murals.
A few, close to the central area, added in a subsequent trip to Montreal.
A former water tower(?) in Vaudreuil just west of Montreal