Self expression comes in many shapes, forms and sizes and graffiti art is no exception. It is a voice, a message, a statement and a call for attention, for whatever reason and many young people are drawn to it, maybe because they feel they are otherwise not being heard Before embarking on Graffiti Painting, one [...]
If you think Britain’s Got Talent was amazing with such top winners as Susan Boyle and the fantastic dance troupe, Diversity, then take a look at what Kseniya Simonova is about! Talk about graffiti art … this is not drawing or ‘scratching’ on the wall as the name graffiti suggests. Neither is it rebellious or [...]
Graffiti Art takes to the gutters. We’ve never seen them look so clean! A new expression of street art has come to the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, nicknamed Storm Drain graffiti. Artists are using their talents to decorate the storm drains in a variety of ways. Leonardo Delafuente and Anderson Augusto, known as 6emeia, [...]
What has Graffiti to do with Marx? Read on to find out … Karl Marx has this theory of social alienation that proposes the idea that in a capitalist system – much like the 24-hour consumer fest we Americans find ourselves bogged down in – the lower rungs of the class-war ladder are pressured into [...]
Since its birth, graffiti, or graffito in singular form, has always met two very conflicting views from people. For the conservatives, it is nothing more than a form of vandalism. For the modernists, it is an art form. Consisting from simple scratches to elaborate paintings on the wall, this art form is ancient and, like [...]
Fafi was born and raised in Toulouse France – the home of another “graffiti girl”, Miss Van. She has been on the art scene since 1994 when she first witnessed the graffiti street art on her hometown walls. Inspired by the scenes depicted, she started her work and hasn’t looked back since. Fafi’s style is [...]
Before embarking on Graffiti Painting, one should be aware that there is a thin line between vandalism and graffiti. Only when one is safely on the right side of the law, should any kind of creative liberty be assumed through Graffiti Painting. Painting Graffiti is an art of big scale. Its grandeur is enhanced by [...]
Graffiti street art it seems is now coming in out of the cold. Many graffiti creators are becoming known for their unique styles and their art is in demand. The only way I know that the illustrator, designer and street artist Toofly’s real name is Maria Castillo is because that’s the name displayed with her [...]
Graffiti art doesn’t just mean art we see sprayed on walls. In fact, graffiti art has such strong characteristics that it’s easy to spot them everywhere – in schools, on sidewalks, on bicycles, on automobiles, on skateboards and on textbooks, just to name a few examples. Graffiti art has a loose feel about it. There [...]
Graffiti art doesn’t just mean art we see sprayed on walls. Get graffiti spray paint here In fact, it has such strong characteristics that it’s easy to spot them everywhere – in schools, on sidewalks, on bicycles, on automobiles, on skateboards and on textbooks, just to name a few examples. Graffiti art has a loose feel [...]
Before embarking on Graffiti Painting , one should be aware that there is a thin line between vandalism and graffiti. Only when one is safely on the right side of the law, should any kind of creative liberty be assumed through Graffiti Painting. Painting Graffiti is an art of big scale. Its grandeur is enhanced [...]
Since the early Neanderthals scratched out the Bison on the moist caves of Eastern France, Graffiti and Street Art have remained a very raw form of expressive Fine Art, which have shunned all class barriers and have emerged as a separate thread of work. Graffiti is derived from the Italian root meaning, “scratched out.” Technically, [...]
In this article, we’ll take graffiti art to mean wall art drawn with spray cans in public places. This is necessary to avoid confusion, for graffiti art can also be taken to mean an act of vandalism in a very general sense. But when I was taking a closer look at the origins of graffiti [...]
Berlin has lived an important process of continual redefinition and change since the Reunification in 1990. Now it has become world-famous because of its international architecture, its performing arts and its cultural diversity. Moreover, Berlin rates as one of the best locations for street art and graffiti . There is nothing unusual about graffiti covered [...]
