Mural Art

Urban Art Films | We all know these fantastic painted animations and time-lapse documentations by famous mural artist Blu. If not, you should check Blu’s “Big Bag Big Boom” animation or his “Combo Collab Animation” with David Ellis! After I featured him on my list of the “Top Urban Artists 2010”, Blu now published his first DVD, containing a collection of videos made during the last 10 years, including interesting footage of the creations of his large-scale mural artworks as well as the well-known wall-painted animations and over 40 minutes of extra contents! ...

Urban Art News | As you maybe noticed, I had no time to write during Christmas, but fortunately it’s over now. However, I collected the top urban art news I noticed in the last days, so I’m able to give you an detailed overview about what happened on the streets around the world while we had some more or less contemplative evenings with friends and family. And here we go… ...

Political Street Art | Right, it’s not a new topic but today I want to write down some of my thoughts about censorship in the urban arts. The reason for that decision was first the fact that the dollar-coffin mural by Blu was painted over just a couple of hours after it was completed, because of objections by a museum’s director. Second, it’s because of the fact that we have the ARTAQ Urban Art Awards in town, which is somehow supported by the Reporters Without Borders. ...

Graffiti Mural | It’s top graffiti news today (1, 2, 3), famous graffiti artist MadC finally finished her huge graffiti wall! At the beginning of this year, the probably most well-known female writer started to sketch the single elements for that giant 639m² wall. Since then, the spectacular graffiti project went on and on and now it’s over! Some days she went up and down the ladder more than 500 times, painted more than 4 months every day at least 10 hours. MadC used 1489 Molotow Premium cans; 158 different colours; 600+ caps; 3 different kind of caps, 100 liters primer; 140 liters exterior paint; painted at temperatures from +2C° to +38C° in sunshine, rain, storm, day and night; painted her biggest and smallest piece so far and overall painted her name far more than 100 times on this wall. (molotow.com) ...

Urban Painting | Just minutes ago I stumbled upon the fantastic murals - or more general urban paintings - by Paris-based urban artist Popof. Until now I’d never heard about the Moscow-born son of an Russian journalist and dissident, who came in contact with graffiti in 1989 and found his way to the French capital. But I have to say when I saw his latest project called “Sillons” (English furrows) first, I was impressed. These abstract urban lines he creates are so simple, but the effect is awesome! ...

Graffiti Artist in Action | Do you remember all the urban artists like Herakut or Ben Eine who did live paintings as a part of the Moniker Art Fair earlier this year? Another famous artist who painted at Village Underground was Hamilton Yokota aka Titi Freak! While the São Paulo-born graffiti artist created a colorful mural on one of these nice brick walls in East London, I took some photos of him in action. Yesterday I had some time and uploaded them to my urban art photography blog, so you are now able to type in the letters www.urbanart-photography.eu into your web browser, to take a look at the Titi Freak photos and to give me some feedback. ...

Mural Art | I can’t understand anything but I really love that brilliant video showing Spanish graffiti and street artist Aryz painting a concrete wall in Barcelona earlier this year as a part of the Concrete Walls Project! Living in Barcelona, he got in contact with the local, very creative and inspiring street art scene early and developed an own, unique characters style. Now, he is well-known around Europe for his amazing murals and pieces (just remember that beautiful work he did together with Smash137!) that he uses spray-cans as well as paint rollers and brushes for. ...

Herakut is probably the most famous and popular urban art duo from Germany. Their impressing mixture of rough, dirty painting and photo-realistic elements is well-known all over the world. In October, I met both of them at the Moniker Art Fair in London and had the chance to document their live painting at Village Underground. I really enjoyed watching them painting one of these typical London brick walls and in my opinion they did a great job again. Take a look at the rest of my photos over there on my urban art photography blog or on flickr and write me what do you think about the painting, Herakut and my photos! ...

Street Art News | It’s urban art eye candy time and again I have some new and interesting info about street art, graffiti and urbanism from around the world. This time there are artist interviews, crazy urban inventions, astonishing photos, and of course a load of eye candy. Here we go! Chris Stain Interview Chris Stain, who became infected by graffiti’s bold color, striking form, and independent nature in the summer of 1984, did a short video interview for “No Longer Empty”, including some impressions of his new mural artwork. ...

Stencil Art | The Moniker Art Fair is going on and I had some busy last days, visiting all the live paintings by Herakut, Case and Titi-Freak and having fun at the VNA magazine issue party. But what’s more interesting is the fact that during the last days a lot of amazing new street artworks popped up around the Village Underground in London’s creative area Shoreditch! One really impressing is the new stencil artwork by internationally famous artist Boxi. He painted a whole wall in his well-known greyscale style including three of his brilliant multi-layer stencil spray-paintings. A must to see for every stencil art enthusiast in London! ...