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 by creating a sense that a person could walk into the piece and interact with his wacky characters.<\/p>\n
Duke 103 works in what is known as a pop surrealist style. He uses modern characters and ideas from pop culture and paints them in a surrealist style. The unique aspect of his graffiti art is that his style has been influenced by graffiti characters, which are often grossly over-exaggerated \u00a0and humorous. Altogether, Duke 103’s art is delightfully cheeky, rude and obscurely symbolic of the times that we live in.<\/p>\n
Bright colours, textured gradients and bulbous, organic shapes all add to the fun \u00a0of Duke’s designs, though many of his paintings are not the type of images that you want outside your kid’s school because of their references to illegal activities such as drug use. But somehow, even though he is painting about these darker aspects of life, you can’t help but grin a little, even if it is an ironic grin…<\/p>\n
Check out more street art murals and tattoos by this versatile artist on his website<\/a>, or find him on Facebook as Duke Cientotres<\/a><\/p>\n