Here's Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Kissing

And other works of powerful, provocative street art. 

You can now see Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin locking lips (should you want to), thanks to a mural by Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Bonanu. Painted on the side of a local barbecue restaurant Keule Ruke, Lithuanian for "Smoking Pig," the mural references the famous 1979 photograph of East Germany's Erich Honecker and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing, which was a traditional manner of Socialist leader greeting at the time.

Written next to the Putin-Trump mural is, "Make everything great again," a jab a Trump's (in)famous campaign slogan.

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On Friday, the restaurant's owner Dominykas Ceckauskas, who commissioned the piece, told the AFP, "...[W]e have a new Cold War, and America may have a president who seeks friendship with Russia. We see many similarities between these two 'heroes' (Putin and Trump). They both have huge egos, and it's amusing to see they are getting along well." 

Street art has been a powerful form of commentary over the years. Here's a look at some famous murals from recent times.

              Street artist Hanksy painted this mural of Donald Trump on the side of a building in New York City's Lower East Side. Hanksy then posted a photo of the work to his Instagram account with the caption, 'What a piece of shit.'

 

Perhaps the world's most well-known street artist, Banksy, painted this mural in 2005 on the wall between Israel and the West Bank. Known as 'Flower Thrower,' the work is a comment on the ongoing violence (and a vision of peace) between Israelis and Palestinians.