Stencil art enables rapid reproduction of detailed imagery in street art, combining precision design with efficient application for powerful urban messaging.
Stencil art represents one of the most technically sophisticated and politically effective forms of street art, enabling artists to create detailed, reproducible imagery while maintaining the speed necessary for urban interventions. This technique involves cutting designs into materials like cardboard, plastic, or metal, then applying paint through the openings to create precise, consistent images on various surfaces.
Stenciling allows complex imagery to be reproduced quickly across multiple locations, making it ideal for political messaging, social commentary, and artistic campaigns.
Emess - Stencil Art Show
“What’s the colour of money?” is the new street art show by well-known Berlin based stencil artist Emess!
Who are the the famous personalities of money, production, time, freedom and market? This is the question Emess asks and answers in his recent, more than 50 stencil portraits, which show that street art’s roots are also touched by constructivism, pop-art and Dada:
“In this series of portraits, Emess uses the well-known prints of the famous personalities depicted on currencies like the dollar, the pound, the Danish and Swedish krona or the Turkish lira. Emess combines the antique handicraft style of wood and copper engraving with the pop-iness of modern song titles and beyond that deals with our profane relationship to our beloved money.
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The Krah - Vandal Tendencies Exhibition
Do you ever heard something about The Krah?
*The Krah is a decrepit but talented young man who has wasted most of his youth scribbling on everything and using any medium he could get his hands on.
As vandalism was the most fun thing to do, The Krah started painting the streets and the subway trains of Athens in 1997, but his graffitis, stickers and posters can also be seen on the streets of a lot of other citys around the world, all over Europe and cities such as Tokyo and Bangok.
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Virtual Graffiti: Wii Spray Stencil
Have you ever been interested in creating an illegal graffiti? No? Go for it! Everything is legal! Nothing will be destroyed or damaged. Everything is virtual. Imagine a virtual wall. Using your browser you select the background of your choice and start spraying with your digital spray can.
In this way the makers of the Wii Spray announce their innovative development! Wii Spray is a real-looking spray can, developed for the Nintendo Wii console. It combines virtual graffiti action with realistic behavior including different caps and colors! It gives graffiti a new virtual level outside of the real existing world.
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Stencil Art: C215 Interview
He is one of the greatest stencil artists of our time. Some time ago he made a double exhibition in Berlin’s Intoxicated Demons Gallery and ATM Gallery. If you have not heard of C215, you should better be careful, because we have spoken with the nice, world-travelling, French artist about his art and his motives!
uac: Who are you? Where are you from? And what means C215?
C215: I am a street art junkie, 35 years old, living in Paris. C215 is just my name, coming from a cell where I stayed a long time ago. It sounds like Chris, but with numbers. I love to hear it said in different languages.
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Reverse Graffiti - Top Artists
Do you know reverse graffiti? Imagine you sit in a car an the windows are so dirty, that you can draw little figures, slogans or tags onto it with your fingers - that’s reverse graffiti! It is the art to make detailed, stencil art alike images out of dirt.
“Do not spray, but cleaning” is the motto! This is why the reverse graffiti artists use soap, high pressure cleaners and water instead of brushes and cloths.
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