Tag: graffiti
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Street Artist Rone Knocks ’em Dead With a Sold Out Show
Australian street artist Rone has been coloring the streets of the world with his signature style since the early 2000’s… long before other street artists like Banksy were household names. The fact that he has a fairly extensive Wikipedia page attests to this fact. Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an…
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Enormous Sculpture Crawls Out of the Ground in Budapest!
Artist Ervin Loránth Hervé created an impressive sculpture called “Popped Up” that depicts a giant man crawling out of the earth. The polystyrene sculpture is located at Széchenyi Square in Budapest, Hungary, and was one of the highlights for the Art Market Budapest 2014 international contemporary art fair. Art Market Budapest is an annual exhibition and…
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Is Street Artist Dran the French Banksy?
French street artist Dran uses his art to comment on issues concerning contemporary society. Being donned “the French Banksy” by some, his approach to street art is similar to the English graffiti artist in tone and message. Dran utilizes his dark sense of humor to criticize modern culture, often tackling topics concerning art, creativity, and…
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Artist Creates Amazing Freehand Tattoos On The Spot Without Any Sketches
For some, getting a permanent tattoo can be a huge commitment – it is, after all, for life. But what about a tattoo that you never even got to see before it was applied to your skin? Because that’s exactly what Jay Freestyle, a talented tattoo artist in Amsterdam, does – he creates his art…
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Artist Luke Cornish Stencils a HUGE Rhino On Melbourne Tram
Forget looking at a timetable while you’re waiting for your tram in Melbourne, Australia. You can instead check out this HUGE rhinoceros stenciled all over the exterior of a tram coming to a stop near you. The work is by award-winning stencil artist Luke Cornish (aka E.L.K), whose 2012 layered portrait of Father Bob Maguire…
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Creative Tattoos That Make Clever Use Of The Body!
The rising popularity of tattoos and the easing of the taboo surrounding them means that more and more people are choosing to express themselves with creative body art ideas that are meaningful to them. Although tons of new styles are being developed by tattoo artists, we wanted to explore a specific type – tattoos that…
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Photographer Uses His Daughter’s Lego to Recreate the Works of Banksy!
A photographer has used his seven-year-old daughter’s Lego to recreate the works of street artist Banksy. Jeff Friesen has recreated many of the mysterious street artist’s iconic works from the plastic bricks. The 42-year-old from Halifax, Canada, used his daughter June’s Lego to complete the project he calls Bricksy. Each scene takes Jeff about a day…
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Amazing Hyperrealistic Street Art Portraits by MTO!
Artist MTO (short for Mateo) is an amazingly talented hyperrealistic graffiti and street artist. His larger-than-life murals and portraits have become his signature, and regularly stop passers-by dead in their tracks. He has worked in France and Berlin, but like a lot of street artists, his whereabouts remain unknown… In any case, we fell in love with his…
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20 Of The Best Cities To See Street Art
We see a lot of street art posts on artFido, but where is the best street art actually made? Where can we see it? To answer these questions, we collected a list of some (not all!) of the best cities in the world to see street art in. On the surface, there’s only one thing…
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The Best Street Art Works From Around the World For 2014
Following on from our very successful post “100 of the Best Street Art Photos for 2013“, we’ve searched the world to find you the best street art works from around the world for the first quarter of 2014… Some will make you laugh, some will make you think, and some will make you ask “what…