This Brazilian artist's mural could break a world record during the Rio Olympics

Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra is out to set a world record during this year's Rio Olympics, but it's not related to sports — unless you consider hours and hours of painting an athletic feat (which, perhaps, you should).

The artist is painting a huge, colorful mural called "Etnias," or "Ethnicities" in Rio de Janeiro, depicting the faces of indigenous people from five different continents. Kobra is hoping his mural will be deemed the largest ever designed by one artist. Guinness has yet to properly adjudicate that his artwork has broken the world record, but it's breathtaking and nearly twice the size of the mural that currently holds the record.

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The mural, which is now complete, depicts indigenous men and women from five continents. That number was inspired by the five Olympic rings, according to the official Olympics site.

Source: Rio 2016

The work covers a 620-foot-long stretch in Rio's Praça Mauá port. Kobra designed the mural himself, but four guest artists helped him paint it. The team worked over 12 hours a day for the past two months to get it done.

The tribes represented in the portraits are the Mursi from Ethiopia, the Kayin from Thailand, the Tapajos from Brazil, a Supi man from Europe, and a Huli from Papua New Guinea.

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