Street art has long since ceased to be just scribbling vulgar sentences on the walls. The hobby of graffiti, which originated as a young gangster, has now become part of the World Artistic Heritage and a decoration of our daily lives. These artists managed to turn the mediocre brick and concrete walls into a door to another space. These works can be admired without entering a museum or art gallery because they are public.
Today, the pictures on the walls are not only the preserve of the unscrupulous, but also the residence of respectable artists. The Frenchman Skaff painted impressive three-dimensional works that turned city streets into "joyful fishing trips," or allowed for the gaze of angels.
David Zinn, an American genius street artist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Zinn makes the city more interesting by using accompanying landscapes in his paintings.
The artist finds inspiration as he walks the streets. Hatches, cracks, holes, and architectural elements become part of a surreal, whimsical scene. They help Zinn imagine a fantasy world created with colored crayons.
Daniel Pope is a Cape Town artist known for his huge interactive art installations. It is a work by an artist that mixes sculpture and scenography. The work is called Prosperity. It is a permanent public installation in a residential center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A beautiful maiden opened her chest and let the people who came in pass through her heart.
Huge hands emerge from the canals of Venice, some supporting the house, some clutching it, trying to drag it deep, and this is the terrible sculpture of Lorenzo Quinn.
Horror sculpture by sculptor Lorenzo Quinn
American artist Mona Cuarón painted a huge floral mural on the facade of a convention center in San Jose, California.
Montreal has a truly stunning street art piece that was made on the streets of the city in an exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in 2008. Titled "Moving Dunes," this masterpiece is a great example of optical illusion that succeeds in "bending" the perspective so that the viewer can see the real three-dimensional dunes on a flat road.
Sergio Audite is a Portuguese artist who creates amazing optical illusions with his own hands. The artist is very popular on social media, and his fans are always curious to see the master's new works and discover new horizons of his fantasies.
Vyrnwy's Giant Arm is a new sculpture by artist Simon O'Rourke that uses broken wood from a storm to be more than 15 meters tall. The extraordinary sculpture seems to have changed under the gaze of the observer. If you look from below, it is an ordinary tree, but looking up slowly, this tree begins to lose its bark, revealing the smooth skin of its forearms, and then the wrinkled skin of its hands, and it tries to touch the sky for the last time.
One of the most interesting forms of contemporary art is land art, where artists work directly with natural landscapes and prefer undeveloped spaces such as deserts or sandy beaches. One of the most talented land artists is Andrés-Amador, who lives in San Francisco. Since 2004, he has been creating sand paintings on beaches around the world.
On the northern shore of France, there is a port city of Calais, which became an industrial center for lace production at the end of the 19th century. Artist NeSpoon decided to highlight the city's traditions by painting a beautiful new mural on one of the facades of the Calais Museum of Fashion and Lace. The work was painted with spray paint, inspired by a special motif preserved in the museum archives dating back to 1894.
Artists Jesse Unterhalter and Katie Troon, jesse and Katie, created a colorful new mural on the campus of Appalachian State University using a concrete staircase. This large-scale work looks like a giant carpet decorated with gray and dull concrete surfaces.
Around the world, famous and unknown artists are creating street masterpieces that are difficult to discern from fake. Let's admire them.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Estelí, Nicaragua
Grenoble, France
Berlin, Germany
California, USA
Lisbon, Portugal
Bergen, Norway
Campobasso, Italy
Lisbon, Portugal
Lucerne, Switzerland
All of us, children and adults alike, have tried to build sandcastles. Getting them right is not easy because sand is not the easiest material to process. But when it comes to real sculpture, the task seems rather unlikely. But that doesn't seem to be the case with Artist Andoni Bastarrica from the Basque Country, who is known for his realistic animal sculptures made almost entirely of sand.
With a pandemic sweeping the globe, street artists couldn't help but react to such a widespread event. And, even as streets are left empty because of isolation, they continue to create, defying the rules.
Always equipped with watering cans and masks, street artists showed their views on the emergencies around us. New graffiti has emerged in various cities on the planet that tell the story of the terrible impact of Covid-19 on our lives.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Los Angeles, USA
Glasgow, UK
Caiffa Cosimo, also known as Cione, was an Italian street artist born in Gallipoli who created marvelous frescoes, including elements of the outside world, whose work seemed to be completely independent of the walls painted on it.
While street art is still considered illegal by some to be sketching, most people can no longer deny the beauty and spectacle of this type of painting. Indeed, in many cases, street artists create in illegal venues. As not so long ago, legal places for graffiti really didn't exist. Many cities now have dedicated venues for street artists, which is good because it helps preserve and develop this unique art form.