Hanksy has been a popular name
in the New York City urban culture since 2011, when the incognito street artist
superimposed Tom Hank’s face on wheatpaste in NYC’s NoLlta neighborhood. The
artist’s name and street art are both inspired by Banksy, as he has been producing
similarly humorous, playful and punny work to subvert pop culture and politics,
troll personality-cults, and express the unique...
Specializing in anamorphic graffiti, Portuguese artist Odeith developed an early interest in perspective and shadow, in an obscure style that he called "3D Sombrio".
Famous in the field of street art since 2005 thanks to his works in "anamorphic art", Odeith continues to play with perspective, angles of walls, rounded shapes or ceilings. His paintings always offer us perfectly realized...
When you walk through big cities you can sometimes get a
feeling that its streets are lifeless and plain. This is why Barcelona-based
street artist Francois Xavier Dongu, known better as EFIX, decided to do
something about it and bring the streets to life with his cartoonish
interventions.
Although the fact that EFIX draws cartoon characters on
walls or sidewalks in enough to make...
“Osgemeos,” a Portuguese word meaning “the twins”, is the name of a prolific street art duo that has been beautifying our urban landscape since the late ‘80s, when identical twins Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo began developing their unique style that defies categorization to this very day. The Brazilian pair have used the streets of many cities in the world...
Istanbul is well-know for its eclectic art
and architecture – from Byzantine infrastructure, to Ottoman remains, the city comprises
a cultural mosaic for curious residents and tourists. Yet, history is not the
only mark of Istanbul – young artists have been shaping the face of the city
with their own contributions in color and style. Huge murals, for instance,
decorate various parts of the...
His name is Odeith and he was born in 1976, in Damaia (Portugal). He held a spray can for the first time in the mid 1980s and he pioneered street art in Portugal and went ahead to beautify the walls of cities and countries all around the world. he started a project titled “World of Giant Insects comes to...
Abys Osmoz made a name for himself in the street art circles
thanks to his unique style of graffiti. This French street artist creates
amazing animal-themed graffiti that are colorful, detailed and mix the reality
with imagination.
In Abys' works, animals take the human form and engage in
all sorts of fun activities. For example, pandas are driving motorcycles, alligators
chill on boats and...
Street art is on the rise and the number of people who look at it as if it's vandalism is getting lower every day. French ceramicist Pablo Savon had an interesting idea about contributing to graffiti culture from his own angle.
He went around Paris and updated a number of graffiti with ceramics, simply copying the design and attaching it...
Artist David Zinn started added strange little creatures on the sidewalks of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in early 2008. Since then, he has added fantastical creations in hidden wall cracks and ledges all over the town.
He incorporates cracks and holes in the walls or sidewalks to create his characters. These whimsical creations are temporary, using just colored chalk....
Ana Martins, aka Aheneah, has managed to bring the cross-stitch to an unattainable level, creating huge murals made of colored threads.
To the young Portuguese designer, colored threads are enough to create fascinating works of art that combine old and new. The goal is to rejuvenate the common idea that you have on cross-stitching. It is something that tends to...
