Graffiti & Street Art

[Katie123]

by Os Gemeos, photos from google images
sources: flickr, woostercollective, citykingz.be, typophile
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[Katie123]

fleshbeck crew. photos google image
sources: cutucacultura.wordpress, oglobo.globo.com

 

[elit]

berlin, warschauer str. 06-2008

tagged with "bronco", he does loads of great street art in berlin...
source, my flickr

 

[xxilovepinkxx]

I am in love with this thread. I think that these pics should be okay. Let me know if they aren't!

Here we see the same Make Poverty History drawing from the side : it was 13m (40 feet) long:

This is one of my favourites. I think it is lovely!

Credit-http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/index.html

 

[ivypixie]

I love streetart/graffiti, though I must admit I haven't got really into it before recently, having a boyfriend who has been doing streetart for years. A night a couple of weeks ago he took me with him when he was going to paint a stencil.

And me and a friend walked the city through a couple of weeks ago and took a serie of pictures of streetart in our city, but she has the camera and haven't gotten them into the computer yet.

what do you all think about the idea that graffiti artists' work (esp. banksy) should be conserved somehow? Personally I think it should be left to the elements, graffiti art is meant to be temporary and part of the changing urban environment. The idea of conserving seems too profit-orientated and a massive contradiction to what graffiti actually is.

I agree with you. I think it should be left to the elements and eventually being painted over. I mean that one of the things with graffiti is the fact that it's temporary and that it's unlegal so you never know for how long it'll stay. Graffiti is kind of a f**k you, so yeah, it's a contradiction to conserve it.

 

[Katie123]

I do agree about the whole graffiti art is meant to be temporary but some of them are so beautiful it just seems like a pity to paint over it! i remember there used to be a tony blair graffiti by banksy in hackney and i used to see it everyday on the bus coming back from uni and then one day it was gone, i didnt even get to say goodbye to it haha

 

[VogueParisLover]

Sorry for bumping the thread but I am really obsessed with street art. One of my favorite artists is Cant4 from Toronto. I ordered a book [Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents] and I fell in love with so many of the artists. I will scan pictures of some of my favorites later.

woostercollective.com

 

[fashionismydrug]

VogueParisLover I love also love graffiti. When I was in Israel a couple of summers ago I took a lot of pics of in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv has graffiti everywhere!!!











all photos taken by me in Tel Aviv, Israel

 

[VogueParisLover]

I got my book today, so I'll take pictures soon (probably right now)... but here's one of Fafi's works that I really like:

Krudo's Flickr