--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Street Art cover: alt: Molotov Cocktail Art height: 1520 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/molotov-cocktail-art/molotov-cocktail-artwork.jpg width: 2480 credit: '' date: '2011-06-28T10:23:22Z' description: Until now I didn’t actually know that Molotov Cocktails can be used to create artworks. The Eternal Flame project in Russia shows that impressive and commemorates in that way fallen Soviet World War II soldiers... tags: - Molotov Cocktail - Street Art Europe title: Molotov Cocktail Art url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/molotov-cocktail-art/ --- # Molotov Cocktail Art *Вечный Огонь* (or *Eternal Flame* in English) is the name of an spectacular urban art installation in Yekaterinburg, Russia. To remind of fallen Soviet soldiers during World War II, an artist group burned the soldiers faces on wooden panels using Molotov Cocktails. The results are just great and are now part of an abandoned hospital. It’s amazing to see, how weapons can be used in a unusual way to create art. The roughness, flames and burned faces are probably the best solution to visualise brutal war, for what reason these unique Molotov Cocktail artworks are in my eyes a good way to commemorate... ![molotov cocktail art]() molotov cocktail art ![eternal flame artwork]() eternal flame artwork ![eternal flame art]() eternal flame art Via [todayandtomorrow.net](http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2011/06/27/eternal-flame/) and [t-radya](http://t-radya.livejournal.com/49046.html).