Portuguese street artist Bordalo II has moved out of the realm of 2D street art and into the world of 3D sculptural graffiti. He recycles the unwanted remnants of human activity, ie, the rubbish that people discard from their homes and workplaces. Each piece of junk that finds its way into Bordalo’s art has its […]
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 […]
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 […]
Street artist Julien Mallard (AKA Seth) travels the world painting graffiti murals of children. His characters are inspired by the country he’s creating in, and his style is inspired by children’s book illustrations. Seth’s graffiti kids wear the traditional clothing of their country or are posed writing in their home language; a reflection of the […]
While most street artists rely on spray paint, markers, stencils and paper and paste to create their graffiti art, Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) uses explosives to create his murals. By setting his incendiary devices in specific places on a wall, Vhils is able to blow away portions of the wall to leave behind […]
The Italian city of Naples (Napoli in Italian) comes under artistic attack when a single paste-up artist papers the streets with his biblical art. The beginning of the video shows the artist at work in his studio, creating paste-up graffiti pieces with oil paint on paper. We later see Zilda wandering the city choosing sites […]
Austrian artist Nychos specializes in cheerfully macabre paintings of dissected animals and people. His fascination with anatomy began at a young age; he was raised in a hunting family who introduced him to every aspect of hunting; from stalking and killing an animal to butchering the carcass and treating the remains. The colors, textures and […]
Based in Santiago de Cali, Colombian artist Anck Millan heads into the guts of the city to renew its spirit with his colorful abstract graffiti murals. Incorporating elements of geometry, abstract art and decorative patterns, Millan builds his murals around human figures and human ideas. His art is an abstract reflection of the society they exist […]
Spanish street artist Duke 103 brings color and movement to the streets of his hometown Valencia in Spain with his large scale street art murals. The subjects of his murals are generally personified animals and funny caricatures of people. His use of perspective and caricature techniques are eye-catching and draw the viewer into the scene […]
Five talented Canadian street artists used 500 cans of spray paint over 16 days to create a large-scale wall mural of the Madonna. They drew inspiration for the style of the piece from the works of Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, and incorporated symbols of Montreal’s history into the mural. One of these symbols is […]