Traditional graffiti culture, spray paint techniques, and tools. Artist profiles, train writing, removal art, graffiti documentaries, and the history of marker and spray can expression in European graffiti scenes.
Graffiti culture through tools and technique—spray paint mastery, can control, and the traditions of European train writing and tagging. Discover artist profiles, technical skill development, and the underground graffiti scene.
This collection documents traditional graffiti practice, abstract styles, and the culture surrounding train writing, removal art, and legal walls. Explore how graffiti writers develop technical skill, the social dimensions of the scene, and documentaries that capture this crucial street art tradition.
Art Monument Berlin - The Style
Recently there was published another update for the “Art Monument 2010” (Turmkunst) event!
Three of the four participating and famous graffiti artists Honet, Flying Förtress, Craig KR Costello and Sozyone are talking in that third promotion video about their concept and how they will try to combine their different styles…
For all of you, who haven’t heard of the “Art Monument 2010”, here a small summary:
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“Beautiful Losers” - DIY Documentary
I have some interesting news about the grandiose “Beautiful Losers” movie: The film, which had its global premier at SxSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas in March 2008, is available in its full length on Youtube since a few days ago…
“Beautiful Losers” is a documentary film which gives some very special, entertaining and interesting insights into the live of some of the protagonists of the DIY (Do It Yourself) street art movement. It shows in an impressive way the creative life between skateboarding, punk, hip hop and graffiti.
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Graffiti Sketches: MadC’s 700 Wall
At this years beginning, I wrote about the spectacular graffiti project, called “700 Wall”, by famous graffiti artist MadC. Recently she published some new, grandiose sketches, which will be submittals for the eventual wall style.
“The wall is extremely long, so I decided to do the concept like a pan in an animation with a lot of three-dimensionality to give the feeling of actually standing in the rooms. The point of view will be at about the real height when you’re standing in front of the wall and look up at it.
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Smash 137 & Aryz Graffiti in Barcelona
One of Switzerland’s most famous graffiti artists Smash 137 and Spanish street artist and writer Aryz did a great collaboration session in an abandoned factory in Barcelona. Also one of the top urban art documentarists, Ruedi One, was there!
One the one side Smash 137. He has a worldwide reputation as being an innovator. His advanced conceptual take on letter styles and modes of application are infamous around the globe. One the other side Aryz. He combines dreamy and sometimes crazy characters with an incomparable comic style.
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Urban Art Mega-Event: Art Monument Berlin
Here are some updates for the Art Monument event in Berlin:
While Sozyone, Flying Fortress, Honet and Craig KR Costello will restyle the facade of the 46 meters high “Bierpinsel” tower in the center of Berlin this April, some other famous urban artists will exhibit inside the tower!
Between April 1st and May 15th, Nils Kasiske, Form 76, Keramik, Mr. Nonski, Dave Decat, Stefan Strumbel, Dave the Chimp, Poch and Stak will present their artworks inside one of Berlins most prominent buildings.
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Urban Fine Art: MaClaim in Berlin
Do you know Maclaim? It’s an very interesting urban fine art collective consisting of the four famous artists Case, Tasso, Akut and Typism. They are internationally well-known for their fantastic mixture of photo-realistic graffiti and modern typography.
The history begins in 1999, when Akut, Case and Rusk started common projects. During the first two years the trio mainly met up in Weimar/ Germany. It was Rusk who first made contact between Case and Akut on one side, and Tasso on the other. For Akut, Case and Tasso it was easy to work together and to complement each other, as they had already focused on photo-realistic spraying irrespectively of each other. (About Maclaim)
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Graffiti vs. Street Art: The Urban Clash
There’s a graffiti war going on! I think you all had heard about one of the hottest graffiti vs. street art battles. For weeks, new facts, info and backgrounds about Robbo vs. Banksy spooked through the urban art blogs around the world.
While visiting London, Banksy repainted a historical graffiti wall and drew criticism on himself. Afterwards, the Robbo crew modified all in all four of Banksy’s street artworks. The story of a graffiti vs. street art war was born.
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Australian Graffiti: The Yok’s Fresh Stuff
Australian graffiti artist The Yok recently updates his photostream on Flickr! Now there are some new shots of his new and very nice artworks.
For years, The Yok has been active as urban artist and is one of the brains behind the Kingbrown Magazine, which captures the work of local and internationally acclaimed artists.
His funky spray-paint characters, which I really like most, are not only infamous in Down-Under, but also around the globe. You have to like their freshness, charm and clean style.
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Urban Calligraphy: Next Level Tagging
jose parla artwork
Do you know José Parlá? Maybe some of you know him as Ease, what is his alias. He is a Brooklyn-based artist who is famous for his great wall-imitations and grandiose calligraphy paintings, which bring tagging to the next level.
He always tries to capture the old, spray-painted spirit of the streets on canvas. Therefor, he developed different techniques to simulate often repainted or old and unclean walls by using mixed media, like concrete, oil and paper.
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Pro Graffiti: Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant
For me and I think also for you it’s always interesting to hear about, what the protagonists of urban art documentation think about graffiti. It’s interesting to hear, why and mainly how the started to document that new wave of public art!
Three days ago, the guys from FatCat Films, published a five minutes video, which shows famous graffiti photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant as well as graffiti artist Blade, who spray-painted about 5,000 trains, talking about their opinions of graffiti on trains, subways and walls.
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