Abstract approaches to urban art prioritize pure visual elements – color relationships, geometric forms, gestural marks, and textural effects – over recognizable imagery, creating powerful emotional experiences through non-representational artistic expression. This artistic direction allows street artists to explore formal concerns similar to gallery-based abstract painting while maintaining the immediacy and accessibility essential to public art. Abstract urban works often emphasize the materiality of spray paint, exploring how different application techniques can create varied textures, color interactions, and spatial effects on wall surfaces. The approach liberates artists from narrative or political messaging requirements, enabling pure aesthetic exploration that can transform urban spaces into contemplative environments. Geometric abstraction brings mathematical precision to chaotic urban environments, while gestural abstraction introduces expressive human energy into structured architectural spaces. This artistic freedom attracts artists seeking to expand street art beyond traditional graffiti writing and figurative imagery toward more experimental visual territories. Abstract urban art demonstrates how public art can function as aesthetic experience rather than social commentary, offering communities opportunities for visual contemplation and artistic appreciation within everyday urban encounters.

Clemens Behr Video Interview
The Art and Pass project recently caught up with abstract urban artist Clemens Behr and let him talk about ome of his influences… Art and Pass is a collaborative artistic project formed by 18 artists of different nationalities, mixing emerging artists with established ones, as well as their diverse techniques and materials. The artists are challenged with an exercise that will make them explore and question the concepts of inspiration, appropriation and original creation. Inspired by the creative process of Mail Art, Art and Pass produces an artistic flow that travels geographically and conceptually. The creative process and the production work of each artist is captured on video, with the objective of sharing the with the public the reinterpretation that each piece undertakes. (about Art and Pass) ...








