Spanish photographer A.L. Crego adds life to his favorite pieces of street art murals by turning them into trippy animated street art GIFs. The street art can stand on it’s own but the messages are given an extra boost with motion.
Vinchen: Social Commentary From Ohio’s Best Street Artist (Art Gallery)
Vinchen’s street art offers simple insights into supposed complex social issues. It causes us to question the notion of their complexity altogether, leaving you to wonder why we are plagued by social inequities at all.
Asking questions incidently leads to answers, and Vinchen’s street art places the onus back on those looking back.
Vinchen – Social Commentary Street Art Gallery
Making Smiles Through Street Art in Urban Environments by Oakoak
Oakoak uses his humourous street art to make his hometown, St. Etienne, France, less “grey”. Humor is the most important element in Oakoak’s creative process, and he sprinkles it liberally whenever he has the chance.
My main interest is giving importance to places and objects that people don’t notice anymore. I walk a lot every day and that’s how I get to find new attractive places with urban elements such as broken walls.
When I see something interesting during my walks, I measure it and study it, and I come back later to make the collage. – Oakoak, Bulkka
Taking The Piss With Banksy by Zenpencils (Comic Strip)
This comic brings life to the voice of street art and pays tribute to the inspirational work of Banksy.
Taking The Piss with Banksy
Banksy is an anoynomous English street artist and activist who has become a cult hero for his anti-establishment and rebellious artwork.
Unlike someone I know, who stays in his house all day drawing comics and watching Simpsons reruns, Banksy is a REAL artist who challenges the status quo, forces people to think and puts himself in danger, all while remaining a complete mystery to the world.
I mean think about it, he’s one of the most famous artists on the planet, his work has been popping up in major cities for the past 10 years and sell for millions of dollars and no one knows who the hell this guy is! I take my hat off to the dude. – Gavin Aung Than, Zen Pencils
Creative Street Art Murals in Malaysia by Ernest Zacharevic
Ernest Zacharevic completed several murals depicting Malaysian locals and their way of life, but also painted a few of his signature pieces that humorously depict children or animals interacting with elements of buildings or other nearby objects.
Zacharevic is from Lithuania but is a permanent resident of Malaysia, and is well-known in the region for his street art.
> Whimsical New Murals by Ernest Zacharevic Play with Their Surroundings on the Streets of Malaysia | Colossal
Street Art Around the World Will Be Archived by Google
Google has created a new initiative: The Street Art Project, an ambitious endeavor to document street art around the world.
The project has launched with over 5,000 images and 100 exhibitions covering an international array of artists and street art hot spots.
For an example of an exhibition, see Google’s documentation of New York City’s famed 5 Pointz project.
Some art is also explorable via street view — for an example see the Tour Paris 13 building.
Smart Street Art Murals, Pejac Art Gallery
Pejac is a brilliant Spanish artist whose witty street art shines a light on social norms and inflexible societal constructs. His work is minimally intervening, but offers a maximum effect.
Much like Banksy or Dran, Pejac’s street art questions our absurd reality and its promised permanence.
Street Art by Pejac
Banksy – Street Art Residency in New York City (Video)
Banksy made a video about his Residency in New York City to accept his Webby for Person of the Year.
Not many people would make a logical connection between street art and the Internet, but Banksy not only showed the world what that looks like, but he made people care about it, too.
For providing a glimpse into the potential future of art on the Web, Banksy truly deserves to be named Webby Person of the Year. – The Webby Awards
Bansky New York Residency – Photo Gallery
Psychedelic Hand Made Mixed Media Collages – Joe Webb (Photo Gallery)
Joe Webb’s work eschews the neo-traditional standard of digital manipulation, opting to meticulously craft his psychedelic work by hand.
Sourcing two to three images at a time, Webb’s finished collages probe the unreality of modern-life, with an emphasis on his disdain for technology.
I started making these simple hand-made collages as a sort of luddite reaction to working as a graphic artist on computers for many years. I like the limitations of collage…using found imagery and a pair of scissors, there are no Photoshop options to resize, adjust colours or undo.
I suppose I’ve become fairly anti-technology… although I now promote my art on websites, own an iPhone and use Facebook…It’s confusing, I wish I had been born 100 years ago. – Joe Webb
Joe Webb – Surreal Hand Made Mixed Media Collages Gallery
Thirst
Thirst II
Storm in a Tea Cup
Room with a View
International Response
Armageddon
What a Lovely Day
Twelve O’Clock
The Chill
Juxtapose
Infatuated
Star Dust
Star Dust II
Sunny Side Up
Playing God
Small Steps
Seaside
Calm and Chaos
Comfort
Star Dust III
Star Dust IV
Star Dust V
Wonder Basket
Sunny Day
Plough
Harvest
Spoiled View
Everything is Fine
Art School
Distraction
Cuts
Time Storage
Joe Webb Collages
A selection of work from UK based collage artist Joe Webb.
Dran – The French Banksy, Art Gallery
French street artist Dran uses his artistic talent to criticize society, and it’s conditioned conventions. Typically ironic in approach, his similarities to English graffiti artist Banksy have earned him the nickname, “the French Banksy”.
Dran’s social criticisms are varied in scope, and although many of his works are naturally playful, they manage to retain their intended message.
Finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention Dran’s site, it has a lot of cool interactions built in (don’t click on the spider!).
Dran – The French Banksy Art Gallery
Banksy Quotes on Society, Street Art Gallery
Since introducing the world to his first pieces of graffiti, Banksy has laced his art with social commentary. Most people will look at his art without absorbing the message but the few that do will be better equipped with ideas on how to make society a better place.
A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves. – Banksy
A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with. – Banksy
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else. – Banksy
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. – Banksy
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. – Banksy
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. – Banksy
Your mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. – Banksy
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie. – Banksy
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it. – Banksy
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place. – Banksy
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. – Banksy
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss. – Banksy
My main problem with cops is that they do what they’re told. They say ‘Sorry mate, I’m just doing my job’ all the fucking time. – Banksy
> Street Art Photos and Quotes! | Street Art Utopia
ETAM Cru Psychedelic Wall Murals, Street Art Gallery
ETAM Cru is street art duo consisting of two Polish artists, Betz & Sainer. They use street art to deliver psychedelic messages to the world. Psychonauts will smile when viewing the familiar psychedelic themes on ETAM Cru’s wall murals while squares will at least raise their eyebrows.