Stencil Art

After that pretty nice stencil art village near London’s Smithfield Market, Evol just created some new pieces in Warsaw! As collaboration with Monstfur, the new stencil art village is extended by an entire butterfly swarm, adding some life to the usually very material houses by Evol… Those of you who want to know, how these fabulous street artworks are created should watch this short making-of video, documenting Evol at work. All the others should go and give some love to Evol’s stuff on Flickr! ...

Two days ago, Urban Art Core published an exclusive sneak peek on London stencil artist Fin DAC’s latest stencil artwork Blackjack, of his fabulous female stencil art series. For those who want to know more about the London-based stencil art master, Abid Khan recently published a nice portrait of Fin as part of his inspirational artists video series, filmed in Fin DAC’s very own studio! It’s about beautifying something rather than destroy it. Cutting stencils is so hard edged and flat, I can’t get the depth, the fading that I want from it, but I still love cutting stencils.. ...

London-based stencil artist Fin DAC continues his series of Asianics with Animals, with his latest piece entitled Blackjack. For Urban Art Core, he unveiled it for a very first exclusive preview! Inspired by Rembrandt’s Woman with a Lap Dog as well as Leonardo Da Vinci’s Woman with Ermine, this latest stencil artwork is named after the Victorian rat-catcher Jack Black who worked for Queen Victoria in the mid-nineteenth century. Furthermore, it is one of Fin’s submissions for the upcoming Urban In Ibiza 4 exhibition, opening on August 9th at Atzaro, Ibiza at which he is also going to paint live… ...

Similar to the latest Urban Art Link-Tips, it’s been a long time since the last Urban Art Recap was published in September 2011. Nonetheless, I’d like to give you a short summary about the five most popular street art, graffiti and urbanism things on Urban Art Core in June 2012… Fin DAC’s Female Stencil Art Series London-based stencil artist Fin DAC worked hard on his latest female stencil art series (see above), combining hand-cut single-layer stencils with freehand spitting. With that, Fin again gave some beauty to the world! ...

The Street Knowledge Agency, representers of author and content auteur King Adz, recently uploaded a half-hourly documentary about stencil art pioneer Blek Le Rat, whose 20 years old Madonna street artwork in Leipzig lately got preserved! As Crackajack.de mentioned, it’s probably the video from the outsold Blek Le Rat - Original Stencil Pioneer DVD by Gestalten. If anyone knows whether this is true, I would be pleased about a short comment… Street art has evolved and every major stencil artist today, most famously Banksy, have been influenced by Blek’s unique style. Bansky claims, “every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well, only twenty years earlier…” ...

My mate, London-based stencil artist Fin DAC recently came up with a new female stencil art series, what’s a great excuse for me to feature Fin and his awesome works again! In a short career, I have defined and perfected a paint style that ignores the accepted visual language of street art… I call it Urban Aesthetics - a modern-day take on the 19th century art movement. During his relatively short career, Fin DAC was able (after hailing from Ireland) to define and perfect a certain stencil art style, that - influenced by fashion, female bodies and a somehow free-hand style - ignores the accepted visual language of street art and creates in my eyes a new, unique stencil art style. Fin DAC’s female stencil artworks combine a hand-cut single-layer stencil with freehand spitting, acrylic and Montana Gold spray paint. They bring together quality stencil techniques with Asian aesthetics and culture and become in that way one of the best stencil series I’ve seen so far! ...

For a lot of people around the globe, the stencil artworks by British street art icon Banksy are the quintessence of politically influenced street art comedy. Whether the flower throwing anarchist, the peace symbol painting soldiers, or even the Child Drawing series, Banksy knows how to combine political statements with more or less subtle jokes… Not long ago, the Twitter account Banksy Ideas was registered, describing itself as The R&D dept at Banksy HQ and developing parodying ideas for new Banksy-like stencil artworks. Here’s some of my favorites: ...

Should graffiti be preserved? In the case of Blek le Rat’s Madonna masterpiece in Leipzig, the city says yes and what begun back in the early 1990s as a true love story, has now become an original precedent! Several years ago, Blek le Rat - who nowadays is regarded as a stencil art pioneer - spray-painted a Woman with Child on an apartment building in Leipzig. He dedicated the Madonna to Sybille, the woman he was in love with. Today, they are already married for 20 years and the stencil art piece is still there and it will stay there for at least the next decades! ...

This is definitely the best stencil street artwork I’ve seen this year! Although it certainly looks like a new Banksy piece, unfortunately nobody is as safe as houses and knows if this great origami stencil artwork in London was made by the British street art legend or not. Nevertheless, it’s fucking lovely! If you know details, let me know… New Banksy Stencil Artwork Photo via The Lonely Villein, info via verynearlyalmost.com.

Germany’s most popular street artist Xoooox just got his first monograph by written by Benjamin Wolbergs and published by Gestalten! Xoooox, who became famous buy spray-painting models in unsuitable positions on the streets of Berlin and other metropolises, was the first German street artist to come to prominence on the international art market… The work of Xoooox has always been a standout for me. The images of these sexy fashionable women stenciled around the streets of Berlin always stood in such high contrast to the collapsing buildings they were painted on. In a landscape covered with street art that always looks much the same it is very refreshing to see an artist with such a singular vision. (Aaron Rose) ...