Spanish artist Belin works on canvas, paper, and the walls of urban environments. His city-based street art combines photorealism with caricature art. The result is that Belin’s street art murals are a funny reflection of real people. Some of his graffiti characters are involved in real-world situations such as posing for a picture at a party; but often, Belin places his painted people into bizarre, humorous and surreal situations.
Belin’s style can be called pop surrealism; a name given to a modern art movement that expresses popular culture and modern art styles in a surrealist manner. Like every surrealist artist before him, Belin’s art questions the reality that we perceive around us, while offering an alternative, imaginative reality to ponder on. The world that he presents to us through his graffiti is a humorous parody of our own world. Perhaps the message is that in a parallel world, we appreciate the funny aspects of life far more than people generally do in our dimension.
Belin street art works are created primarily in spray paint. The fine mist of aerosol paint allows him to create the smooth gradients and soft shades that are required to paint a photorealistic mural. Check out more street art and fine art paintings by Belin on his website.
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- Belin uses the side of this building as a canvas for his enormous street art mural that depicts two unlikely superheroes in Spanish moustaches.
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- This graffiti mural by Belin fuses different art styles, including pop surrealism and caricature art.
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- While the style of this street art mural by Belin is humorous, the underlying symbolism is quite sad; the painting addresses the fact that many pensioners lack the financial stability to see themselves through old age. This graffiti mural is an excellent example of Belin’s skill with creating photorealistic aerosol art.
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- Who’s the little monster here? The minion character from the animated film, “Despicable Me” is as predictable a trouble maker as a toddler with an attitude. Belin creates a visual comparison between these two personalities in this colorful and humorous street art mural.
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- Street artist Belin creates a bizarre and surreal graffiti mural that poses the question, “Are you a man or are you chicken?”
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- This graffiti mural by Belin shows people posing for a group shot, as if at a party. This street art work adds a fun and festive air to the area.
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- Belin turns this wall into a funny, larger-than-life self-portrait. Both the style and the subject matter are humorous; a brilliant blend to express the artist’s sense of humor.
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- Circuses are generally linked with childhood, innocence and fun, but graffiti muralist Belin has given this clown a creepy stare, adding an obscure and funny edge to the portrait.
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- Perhaps in an alternative universe, a man can take a wingless bee for a walk on a piece of string… Belin uses his street art to bring this fantasy world into ours.
