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Banksy – the most mysterious and controversial graffiti artist. British graffiti artist, political activist, director and talantische Banksy , probably the most popular and at the same time the most mysterious in the world of street artist. He became famous throughout the world due to its unique “guerrilla” style of stencil graffiti that appeared in a variety of public places – on the walls of buildings in London, Brighton, Bristol, even at the barrier in the West Bank between Israel and Palestine. But despite his worldwide fame, Banksy even so managed to keep the veil of secrecy around it, and anonymity. Around his real name and biography is a lot of controversy. According to the most popular version of his real name is Robert or Robin Banks. Despite the fact that Banksy’s work shocking rather can be attributed to the genre of “kontrakultura,” his work has been exhibited in the most fashionable and prestigious galleries around the world.

Among the collectors of his work many celebrities including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera. Zetka. Zetka is a Crew of Ghent (Belgium) , they are Bue, Pest, Poindexter, Mr. Fixit and Kaiser. Beyond being all street artists, they’re illustrators and graphic designers too. The colors and the characters are really important in the work of the Zetka group. Bue commented on the subject: “In my work I try to put more color and positive energy, maybe because I live in a cemented and rainy country. > myspace.com/zetka. Graffiti art of Swoon. New York based street artist Swoon specializes in paper cutouts and wheatpaste prints.

Photos retrieved from Flickr, copyright of respective owners. Moss Graffiti, Living Art. For many people, graffiti conjures up a slew of negative associations. It’s usually illegal, expensive to remove, can damage property, and is often vulgar or unappealing to the eye. Despite graffiti’s traditionally sullied reputation, there are still those who see it as a unique expression of individuality and support graffiti artists whose works brighten otherwise dark and dreary cities. Moss graffiti, frequently called eco-graffiti or green graffiti, is changing people’s perception of street art. Fresh, intriguing, and alive, eco-graffiti can literally bring life to urban landscapes. Instead of spreading toxic chemicals through spray paint, moss graffiti artists use bio-degradable ingredients to write messages, draw pictures, and decorate plain architecture. Anna Garforth is one of the more well-known moss artists. We declare the world as our canvas106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2012.

Click on a photo and you make it bigger and can post a comment on it. And thats some of the most beloved Street Art Photos posted in 2012 on Street Art Utopia! A member of Street Art Utopia on Facebook wrote two year ago this nice piece about the future: – My son, do you want to hear something strange? – Yes! What? – You know the new tree painting we did on the garage last week.. Up until around the year 2050 people generally did not have paintings on houses! – What? – Well, yes, many were. . – Was art forbidden? – Well no, but it had to be in special buildings only. . – Wow. . . – Yes, my son. Touch! Touch! Nothing will HappenŠ by Luzinterruptus. Guerilla lighting designers Luzinterruptus snuck out in the dead of night to stick 400 illuminated silicone nipples all over statues outside the Public Art Museum in Madrid.

Calling the project Touch! Touch! Nothing will Happen, the designers wanted to make citizens stop and touch the artworks they walk past every day. Lots of the nipples were stolen on the first night but the installation lasted six days. Other installations by Luzinterruptus include an army of scarecrows in radioactive suits, fairy lights under autumn leaves and lamps for reading crime novels in dangerous parts of the city.

Israeli student Naama Arbel caused a stir on Dezeen last month with her nipple-shaped lamps - take a look at them here. Photographs are by Gustavo Sanabria. Here are some moe details from Luzinterruptus: This is our last intervention “Touch! In spite of being robust and compact, appropriate to be touched and used, they are inaccessible to the public, except to view. Women Wheatpaste Artists. Women Wheatpaste Artists Graffiti prone areas get a refreshing redo... Stanislava Pinchuk aka Miso of Melbourne, Australia. cityofreubens.com Stanislava Pinchuk aka Miso. See more work here: cityofreubens.com The Melboure artist is but 21 years old.

Stanislava Pinchuk aka Miso -- cityofreubens.com See Miso's new book streetstudiobook.com Artist: Brooklyn-based Swoon. A Swoon on a truck in Brooklyn. Swoon (Caledonia Dance Curry) is originally from Daytona Beach, Florida. Mermaid by Swoon. Artist: Swoon. Artist: Swoon. Swoon wheatpaste in Brooklyn.

Artist: Swoon. Brooklyn-based artist: Imminent Disaster. Tin can bustle by Imminent Disaster in Brooklyn. By Imminent Disaster, Brooklyn. Early Imminent Disaster, Brooklyn. A dropman of French-born Emarama aka Florence Blanchard. florenceblanchard.wordpress.com Johanna Tagada of France, now in Berlin.More about Johanna here. www.bonjourjohanna.com Share this page... Become a Fan of Inspiration Green Green Art Blog Additional Posts Ideas for old china.

News – 60 Remarkable Examples of Graffiti Art. Lassen Sie mich Ihre Fantasie durch Graffiti-Kunst beflügeln. Graffito ist ein anderes Wort für eingeritzte, aufgekritztelte, gemalte, gesprühte oder in irgend einer Form an Gebäuden angebrachten Schriftzeichen oder Bildern. Diese Kunstform wird gelegentlich als frei und unverkrampft bezeichnet. Jedenfalls ist es eine sehr alte Kunst, die bis auf die Römerzeit zurückgeht (mal ganz abgesehen von Höhlenmalereien – Anmerkung der Redaktion). Dieses Post enthält eine Sammlung 60 beeindruckender Beispiele von Graffiti-Kunst als Quelle für Ihre Inspiration. Bemerkenswerte Graffiti-Kunst The Goldfinch of Scampia Cake, NYC The weird ones Jorge Galvao Brazil Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? Magrela, Sao Paolo Isoe in Slovenia Magrela + Sinhá, Sao Paolo Seen On The Streets of Madrid Rize Self Portrait Fauxreel Ricardo Akn Tagged The Wall, Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland Muro da Fundação O Pão dos Pobres de Santo Antônio Escape, 1989/Nov/9 Imagine… the wall of peace and freedom (La libertà) Formerly at St.

Nomen Skill Rize. The death of Banksy. Photo by eddiedangerous Can Banksy die? I’ve got no doubt that the man who was writing the name Banksy on Bristol’s walls in the 1990′s can and will, at some point, die. That’s not what I’m wondering though. Keith Haring has been dead for more than 20 years, but you can still buy new products with his imagery. Similarly, Basquiat’s estate released prints after his death. But those artists had names and faces. While he is anonymous, Banksy is publicly portrayed as being one person. It’s ridiculously risky for Banksy to paint his own street art… A Banksy billboard/artwork in NYC. Does Banksy paint his own street art?

There’s no way to know if Banksy paints his own gallery art… Collaboration between Damien Hirst and Banksy. What about his indoor work? There isn’t just one man who can come up with funny stencils… Stencil by Meek. Life after death… Photo by Jake Dobkin This isn’t to say that Banksy’s death is impossible. What do you think? Share Category: Featured Posts, Random | Tags: banksy. We declare the world as our canvas14 Great Banksy Street Art Photos and Quotes! “There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.” – Banksy “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. ” – Banksy “Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” – Banksy “You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid.

You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.” – Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall) “Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. “People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.” – Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall) “I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. ” – Banksy “My main problem with cops is that they do what they’re told. “Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.” – Banksy (Wall and Piece) 15 Massive Street Art Murals Around the World. Is it just us or is street art getting bigger and bigger these days? Lately, we've been noticing that massive murals are taking over whole sides of buildings! These multi-story works are best viewed and appreciated from a distance.

Case in point, Brazilian twins Os Gemeos are currently painting a 5,000-square-foot mural on the exterior wall of the Revere Hotel within the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston. Not that we're complaining. We love seeing these incredible works of art created at such a large scale! Here are 15 of our favorites. Ordes, Spain By Blu Bristol, UK By Aryz Salt Lake City, Utah - USA By El Mac and Retna Moscow, Russia By Vhils Lodz, Poland By Sainer from Etam Crew Baltimore, Maryland - USA By Nanook New York City, New York - USA By Eduardo Kobra Artotale, Germany By Herakut West Hollywood, California - USA By Shepard Fairey By Os Gemeos Atlanta, Georgia - USA By Roa Katowice, Poland By Escif Unknown By Alexandros Vasmoulakis Szczecin, Poland By Sepe, Lump and Chazme718 Montreal, Canada. Graffiti stop-motion: Bliss N Eso - Addicted.

Graffiti Stop Motion -by BLU. COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) Rainbow. “The optimism of the action is better than the pessimism of the mind”. Harald Zindler (text just below) A video of the installation HERE Spectrum in the city, abstract rainbows of paper… This urban installations, ephemeral and no degrading, created with hundreds of foldings origami, grow up in the town with an important visibility thanks to their big size and their bright colors.

This series was inspired to me after my year in Japan and after the events of the 2011 march 11, which induced the explosion of the nuclear plant of Fukushima when I was there. After this events and some readings, I decided to participate to the tribute for Sadako Sasaki, added to this my consideration for the Japanese people and all the victims of nuclear disasters. Sadako lived the horror of the Hiroshima bomb and its tragic consequences… Some years later, she becames ill because of the atomic event of 1945. Since this time, children from all the Japan send to Hiroshima cranes of paper, in the memory of Sadako. The Top 75 Pictures of the Year for 2013.

Update: if you liked this post, you’ll adore our latest post on the 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places on Earth HERE. Following on from our very successful blog “100 of the Best Street Art Images of 2013″ (see HERE), we’ve widened the net and thanks to the guys over at Sifter, we bring you the Top 75 Pictures of 2013. All credit goes to the individual photographers and their inspiring visions of our beautiful planet. What’s your favorite? Photograph by strummingmusic on Reddit Photograph by HALEY LUNA Photograph by HANS HANSEN Photograph by Capt. Photograph by Adam Klukowski (ENT108) | klucznik.net Photograph by JENNY DEAN Photograph by LAURA WILLIAMS Photograph by SCOTT MCCRACKEN Photograph by Alexander Van Driessche Photograph by ROLF MAEDER Photograph by RADO GADOCZI Photograph by Peter Rivera Photograph by DEVEN STROSS Photograph by Randy Kokesch Photograph by NothingI5True on Reddit Photograph via Kevin Trotman (The Rocketeer on Flickr) Photograph by SPRENG BEN Photograph via waitomo.com.

We declare the world as our canvas106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2011. More info. Let us begin with this words that come as a response to the photo above: “There´s tools and colours for all of us, to lend from nature to make the world more understandable and beautiful”. 1# Click on a photo and you make it bigger and can post a comment on it. 2# Make sure that you read the story in the end! 3# Feel free to reblog this, only remember to link back to this post. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info and photos. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More by Slinkachu. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info.

More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info.More by Oakoak. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. More info. Shepard Fairey Process Video. BanksyInside - A Digital Magazine Dropping What's Fresh on the Web. The mysterious Banksy just released some new paintings on his website. You heard it right, Banksy painted on a canvas. All Banksy fans will appreciate. Here are a few of my favourites. Chilean artist street artist INTI. We declare the world as our canvasStreet Artists.