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Lelin Alves’ Graffiti Art puts Personalities into Perspective

Brazilian graffiti artist Lelin Alves travels throughout South America, covering urban walls with his large scale personality portraits. Alves paints his portraits in his unique caricature style; building facial expressions and shapes out of wild angles and bizarre perspectives. By exaggerating some areas of his subject’s faces and minimising others, Alves draws the viewers eyes to certain parts of the graffiti characters’ faces. This adds to the emotive expression of the character while also drawing the viewer into empathising with the figure.

Alves’ painted people express a plethora of human emotions, from antagonism and suspicion to the lighter emotions of humor, happiness and contentment. This street artist has successfully managed to do what so many artists before him have tried to do but failed; he’s expressed recognizable human traits in an abstract style without a loss of aesthetic appeal or character. One day, people will look back on Alves’s art style with the same level of admiration that we now attribute to the ground-breaking art of Pablo Picasso.

Besides working outdoors to create aerosol street art, Alves also swaps out his spray cans once in a while in favor of paintbrushes which he uses to create canvas-based fine art paintings. If you’re interested in buying one of his graffiti paintings, you can contact Lelin Alves through his website or on Facebook.

Two graffiti characters enjoy a steaming mug of coffee in this street art mural by Lelin Alves
Lelin Alves paints two grossly exaggerated characters enjoying a cup of java. He’s squashed their facial features into the center of their grossly enlarged cheeks and jowls in a symbol of gluttony and self-satisfaction.


Brazilian graffiti artist Lelin Alves combines abstract shapes and caricaturized human hands to create this symbolic street art mural
Lelin Alves overlays abstract patterns on top of caricaturized human hands to create an appealing combination of abstract and real world ideas.


Brazilian street artist Lelin Alves paints a mural of a little man in the grip of an inhumanly large hand
A giant human hand holds an evil little dude while pointing in the direction of attack. This is a recurring theme in Lelin Alves’ street art. The concept is that the character is being controlled and guided by an unseen, powerful entity.


Graffiti artist Lelin Alves uses his abstract style to create a large self portrait of himself carrying a box of spray cans
This is what a graffiti artist looks like through the eyes of a graffiti artist.


Graffiti muralist Lelin Alves uses his abstract style to paint a cartoonish street art work that addresses the criminal personality of a thief
Lelin Alves puts his graffiti perspective skills to use in this comic and abstract mural of a classic bank robber stealing away with his loot.


Lelin Alves paints a man in a twisted martial arts pose in his signature warped perspective style
Brazilian graffiti artist Lelin Alves leaves it up to you to decide whether this abstract comic character is acting in self-defensive or if he is taking an offensive martial arts stance.


Lelin Alves paints a mural man who is content with his relationship with nature
Even though the character in this graffiti mural is so abstract and caricaturized, his sense of contentment is apparent.


Lelin Alves uses the artistic technique of exaggeration to make this shouting graffiti character appear super angry
Lelin Alves has found a way to express livid anger in a humorous way by combining cartoon art styles with his abstract graffiti style.


Lelin Alves' graffiti hands point these action-hungry birds in the direction of attack
Two hands point these action-hungry birds in different directions. Lelin Alves often uses human hands holding characters in his graffiti murals. The disembodied hands hint at a powerful, unseen figure who directs the actions of the characters from behind the scenes.


The crazy perspective used in this street art mural of a skydiver is a signature aspect of Lelin Alves' graffiti art style
At first, many of Lelin Alves’ street murals appear to be a collection of random abstract shapes, but on closer inspection, his crazily posed characters come into perspective.


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March 10, 2015 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse

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