Street Art & Graffiti! Discover the Best Artists!

Street Art and Graffiti doesn’t need time, space, cultural movement or recognition to happen, it just needs the street

Street Art is common in urban environments. Without art, city dwellers only have concrete buildings to look at.

More and more communities around the world are adding graffiti on statues, walls, walkways, on any piece of concrete.

A city can be dark and boring but with a touch of street art it can suddenly become an attraction

Street Art is known for increasing the tourist population of a certain place, it can also tell a story about a culture without saying a word.

Around the world during the last decades there has been an increase in the number of Street Art, although the term is often associated with spray (graffiti) Street Art comes in all forms, from sculpture, painting to crochet is used.

And isn’t at all easy to stand out in a scene that has become so popular in a globalized world like ours

Some talented graffiti artists are fusing the minds of people around the world

Buildings that turn into monsters, Aztec robots invade Caracas, graffiti artists all over the world have proven that there is no public screen better than a wall and know how to adapt to their environment creatively.

No more back, Street Art came to stay, Graffiti has invaded the world!

Below some of the top street art artists to inspire you

Bicicleta Sem Freio

Keith Haring

Os Gemeos

Etam

Natalia Rak

Shepard Fairey

Eduardo Kobra

Banksy

Christina Angelina

3TTMAN

Ben Eine

Thoms

Aryz

Felipe Pantone

Belin

What is street art?

It can be said that it is a movement, more precisely an artistic expression, perhaps, an art form by itself.

One thing is certain – Street Art has become an inevitable element of contemporary art.

In addition, its definition and uses are changing: Street Art was originally a tool to mark the territorial boundaries of urban youth, nowadays it is seen in some cases as a means of urban beautification and regeneration and even for commercial reasons.

Street Art History — New York nas décadas de 20 e 30

Where Does Graphite Come From?

If we think of urban art as an artistic expression, we can not fail to speak the beginning.

From ancient rome where traces of graphite made by the Romans were found to travel back in time to New York in the 1920s and 1930s in the poorer neighborhoods, it was common for rival gangs to defend their neighborhoods.

So that their members could communicate, they wrote in illegible letters and made almost incomprehensible designs on the walls of the ghettos.

They made it a kind of secret code.

The impact of this subversive culture was extraordinarily felt in the 1970s and 1980s and this code evolved into Art.

These decades were a significant point in the history of street art – it was a time when young people, responding to their socio-political environment, began to create a movement, “the struggle for meaning” by doing it with their own hands.

Therefore, this subcultural phenomenon has gained attention and respect in the world

From the fingers and tins of the teenagers, they took a form of true artistic expression that spread to the world.

Artists, also called writers, used to call attention to the social problems that are part of the reality in which they live.

So, for the most part, the drawings were made on trains, so that they could be seen by as many people as possible.

Essentially an illegal activity, a process of creation through destruction that began its evolution in numerous forms of artistic expression and found its way into galleries and the global art market.

Although still subversive, street art has gained its place in the world of contemporary art.

The evolution of street art has become evident through artists such as Banksy and artists such as Vhils or BLU who have transformed the visions of this art form, street art has become a place to experiment with different shapes and types and create murals breathtaking.

What are the different forms of street art?

Traditional Painting on the surfaces of public or private property that is visible to the public, usually with a can of spray paint or paintbrush.
Stencil Painting using a homemade stencil, usually a paper or cardboard clipping, to create an image that can be easily reproduced.
Sticker Spreads an image or message in public spaces using homemade stickers.
MosaicMosaic is the art of creating images with a set of smaller parts or pieces, to resemble a single giant work of art.
Video Projection Digitally design a computer-manipulated image on a surface through a light and projection system.
Street Installation While conventional street art and graffiti are made on surfaces or walls, ‘street installations’ use 3-D objects and space to interfere with the urban environment.

In Brazil, Pop Art artist Lobo is passionate about Brazilian Street Art, especially in the city of São Paulo, and always seeks new challenges

Click here to see the mural that the artist painted, inspired by the city of Los Angeles