Ted Pim is a street artist from Northern Ireland who has taken a space not usually associated with the grand old masters of European painting (run down buildings and warehouses) and planted them in heart of it all, adding his own spin to proceedings. Out of the shadows of these dark and dreary places, he […]
Category: Graffiti
Ella and Pitr’s Graffiti of Giant Humans Sleeping on Rooftops
Known as “Les Papiers Peintres” (Paper Painters), Ella and Pitr from France seem like they’ve partnered with a higher entity to illustrate these massive characters on top of buildings. The artists have been busy painting rooftops in their home country as well as in Portugal, Italy and Canada. They often use a gallon sprayer for […]
An Anamorphic Zeus Lights up the Skies
Italian collective Truly Design are at it again, creating mind-bending anamorphic graffiti across Europe. This time they’re in Mulhouse, France, collaborating with the Musée EDF Electropolis. When they saw the space at the former electric plant, they were thunderstruck at the possibilities available and it was quite clear who their subject was going to be: the […]
3D Insects and Giant Birds: The Graffiti Art of Mantra
“Graffiti is my background, my family, my culture,” states Mantra, a French graffiti writer who travels across Europe spray-painting creatures of the earth on walls. “I’m sensitive to nature, all little whispers and cries you can find in it. Colors, mimetism, complexity, the phenomenal capacities of adaption, evolution and the fascinating impartiality are all just […]
Giant Octopus: Anamorphic Graffiti by Truly Design
At the SAMO space for contemporary art in Italy, the inventive art collective Truly Design have transformed a simple concrete hanger into a B-Movie set, as a giant jungle green coloured octopus spreads it eight tentacles over pillars and the ceiling. They use the space provided to them in ingenious ways, as the dips and […]
Natalia Rak’s New Graffiti Piece for Pow! Wow! Hawaii
An admirer of Fauvism, Natalia Rak also uses bold colors in her traditional paintings and murals. Sunset red, magenta and various tonalities of purple are blended soothingly, and her use of fluorescent spray paints create an illuminated effect in each composition. Her latest art piece, “Predators” (shown above), was beautifully painted on a wall for Pow! Wow! […]
Pichi&Avo: Graffiti Art x Greek Mythology
Classical art lives on, even in graffiti. That might be a bit of a surprise, but characters from Greek Mythology are softly shaded with spray paints and traditional tagging added here and there to compose various murals. It’s all brilliantly done by Pichi&Avo, the duo from Spain who met in 2007 and since then became […]
Bling-Bling Graffiti by Felipe Pantone
Of course there is a lot of eye candy here. Felipe Pantone consistently uses shiny white and neon paints in his murals that look influenced from Op Art. His graffiti makes me reminisce the 1980s with bright colored typography, Synthpop music, SMPTE color bars on the TV… but there are also elements (like a Chat icon) […]
DAIM’s 3D Graffiti Displayed On Street and Museum Walls
It is fascinating to see how graffiti art has evolved from the streets to now being displayed in museums. It has finally reached a level of acceptance from the fine art circuit. And it is about time! Showcased here, are works by DAIM, a German graffiti artist with over 25 years of experience and known […]
Irony’s Graffiti Burns Up London
UK street artist Irony has really outdone himself with a new mural in Camden Market, London. It is titled “Burn,” shown in the image above, a blazing piece which may be a simple nod to urban art or a more complex message related with society and politics. It leaves room for interpretation. He’s also spray […]