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Known for his monumental portraits, street artist El Mac has painted faces on walls, buildings, and canvases all over the world.
Mac was inspired at a young age by classic European painters such as Caravaggio, Vermeer and Art Nouveau titans such as Klimt and Mucha. The classic European art style is combined with contemporary graffiti and photorealism, mixed with the Chicano & Mexican culture he grew up around.
Street art has gone from being a neighborhood nuisance to a respected form of artistic expression. It is impossible to deny the expression of talented individuals around the world. This world is their canvas, let us marvel at their work.
This dope infographic traces the career of the mythical graffiti artist Banksy by highlighting the artist’s most significant artworks including “Pulp Fiction” and “Street Maid”.
The historical timeline of Banksy’s career also includes locations and notes on what happened to some of his street art after their creation.
> Banksy Street Art Timeline Infographic | Canvas Elite
3D street art is taking street art to the next level. Using 2 Dimensional drawings to form 3 Dimensional optical illusions (depending on the viewing angle) creates stunning imagery. It’s hard to believe that these artistic creations were drawn right there on the streets of the world.
These photos are selected from the most distinguished artists currently producing 3 Dimensional Street Art. Enjoy these breath-taking photos of 3D Street Art!
In this clip from Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe, Ice T describes the inspiration that pushes people out of their comfort zone. David Choe is mostly known for his awesome street art, but he’s also respected for saying “Fuck It” and living a lifestyle full of risks, failures, and rewards.
Well, to take risks you got to go, “Fuck It.” You know, most men who met their wives, it was a “Fuck It” before they walked up to her, it was that moment where she won’t talk to me, but “Fuck It,” I got to just take the risk, put myself past what I normally would do.
And there are certain people in life, like you say Hunter Thompson, that live in that – that realm of the edge, and everything else is boring, other people are like, how do you do it? You know you see mountain climbers, those mountain climbers are saying “Fuck It.” – Ice T
A stop motion video with Mear One painting a thought provoking mural in London.
Filmed and Produced by Roger L. Griffith
Music by Nosaj Thing
I came to paint a mural that depicted the elite bank cartel known as the Rothschilds, Rockefellrs, Morgans. The ruling class, the elite few, the Wizard of Oz. They will be playing a board game of monopoly on the backs of the working class. A symbol of the free mason pyramid rises behind this group, behind that is polluted world of coal-burning nuclear reactors.
I started noticing that the people were giving me some strange looks. I was feeling some serious heat and anger from them. I continued to try to express my intent but they were not trying to hear me. I felt that I was all alone.
The next day I painted in the bankers in with the playing board and noticed that people started to become more curious.
My third day, I got the working class holding up the game board painted in, and the people were smiling saying how much they were enjoying the evolution.
Come the fourth day, there was a street festival going on, and the people were engaging me on the subject matter of the mural, old white men to Muslim children were explaining how us Americans were spending beyond our means and how we don’t understand what our military does around the world.
My mind was blown, this whole experience transformed my whole understanding of the game. I finished my mural, drank a beer, smoked a joint, and converesed with the people My dream to paint a mural that would rally people together and inspire conversatan of things that matter was just realized. – @mearone
A stop motion video of Mear One painting a Shaman art mural at the street corner of Sunset and Hyperion in Los Angeles CA.
Filmed and Produced by Roger L. Griffith
Music by The Gaslamp Killer
People are anxious to change their circumstance yet are unwilling to change themselves, therefore they remain bound. – James Allen
> A New Shaman | Just Above Sunset
Graffiti artist David Choe discovers the location of Pablo Escobar’s Medellin vacation home and breaks into it. Two beautiful Colombian girls magically appear to help David with his street art.
