Tag: street art
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90 Year Old Grandma Turns Small Village Into An Art Gallery With Hand Painted Flowers
Anežka (Agnes) Kašpárková, a 90-year-old resident of Louka, Czech Republic, spends every spring and summer adorning window and door frames with majestic designs. A former agricultural worker, Agnes picked up the hobby from other local woman who had been doing the same for years. Using vibrant blue paint and a small brush, she creates intricate floral…
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Street Artist Uses Plastic Wrap To Paint Giant Animals In The Forest
Evgeny Ches is a graffiti and contemporary artist from Moscow, Russia. Inspired by the work of French artists Kanos and Astro, Evgeny uses a technique he calls CelloGraff, where he stretches cellophane around two trees, to spray paint his murals onto the plastic wrap. His latest installation occurred deep in a Moscow forest, and here…
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Banksy Investigation: Was The Sotheby’s Shredding Real Or Did We All Get Banksy-ed?
We’ve all seen and heard the news by now. The British street artist Banksy pulled off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday 5 October when one of his trademark paintings appeared to self-destruct at Sotheby’s in London after selling for $1.4 million at auction. Because Banksy is the art community’s biggest troll, his dramatic…
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EXCLUSIVE: Banksy Shredding – Director’s Cut – YES it Really Got Shredded
In the final chapter to the Banksy shredding saga, Banksy has just released a video titled ‘Director’s Cut’ showing the whole event take place. According to Banksy: “Shredding the Girl and Balloon – the Director’s cut. Some people think it didn’t really shred. It did. Some people think that Sotheby’s were in on it, they…
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EXCLUSIVE Unveiling of Girl In The Bin by Banksy at Sotheby’s
The Banksy saga continues… Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last week, you will have heard the news about the Banksy shredding painting saga. We reported about it HERE, HERE and HERE. Sotheby’s have maintained that they have nothing to do with it, but they’re definitely dining out on the publicity. They’ve just unveiled…
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A 132 Year Old Girl Escapes Her Picture Frame And Turns Into A Huge Wheatpaste Mural In Tennessee
Artist Julien de Casabianca was recently invited to create a huge wheatpaste mural at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee alongside an exhibition and workshop. Julien’s seven-story mural features a melancholic girl pulled from William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s 1886 neoclassical painting “Au pied de la falaise” (At the Foot of The Cliff) which is included in the…
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One Man Paints a Massive Illegal Mural in Cairo
Egypt has some of the toughest laws in the world forbidding artistic expression, so when French-Tunisian artist eL Seed decided to paint an enormous mural covering 50 buildings in the heart of Cairo, he had to ensure that the government knew nothing about the project or risk facing serious jail time. eL Seed avoided contacting…
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BREAKING NEWS: New Video Reveals The Moment Banksy Artwork Was Shredded
It’s been all over the internet. As we reported HERE, at a Sotheby’s auction in London on Friday 5 October 2018, Banksy absolutely broke the internet with news that Girl with a Balloon, a work by Banksy created in 2006, had just been sold for a record price of £953,829 ($1.25 million USD). Moments later, an…
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BREAKING NEWS: Sotheby’s ‘Banksy-ed’ As Painting ‘Self-Destructs’ Live At Auction
UPDATE: Banksy’s own video of the stunt has just been released HERE. Was Banksy at the evening sale at Sotheby’s on Friday night? That was the question on everyone’s lips when one of the Bristolian street artist’s paintings mysteriously self-destructed as the contemporary auction drew to a close. Girl with a Balloon (2006) was the…
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Huge Mural Paintings of Pigeons By Artist Reveal Their Unexpected Beauty
A lot of people aren't the greatest fans of pigeons, considering them 'the rats of the sky'. Not so artist Adele Renault, who creates realistic portraits of the animals to give you a different perspective. She has recently published a book entitled Feathers and Faces, which documents documents Adele's pigeon portraits with paintings of other equally overlooked…