Classical Paintings on Streets
Julien de Casabianca started Outings Project to fill the cultural gap between the museum and street. Using nothing but mobile phone people can take photos of abandoned and less-known pictures in museums and transfer them on street walls with the help of Outings team. It is legal until you break a law.
P.s. I bet Julien needs to visit Saint-Petersburg and check the street project done by Russian Museum with the same idea. It was vandalised several if not dozen times until people get used to it, and now you watch Russian Classic Paintings outside.
Walking New York by JR
Earlier this month, workers with the French street artist JR (previously) covered a plaza in Manhattan's Flatiron district with a giant, wheat-pasted photograph of a guy walking. It was 20-year-old immigrant and Brooklynite Elmar Aliyev in mid-stride. The image was only up for a day, and almost no one noticed. But it would go on to create one of the most inventive New York Times magazine covers of recent memory.
The cover is a commentary on the invisibility of immigrants, a theme JR has previously explored. "For this project, we decided we’d photograph recent immigrants and paste their images on the city’s streets, where they and other immigrants are often invisible," the NYTimes writes. The French artist photographed several different immigrants before landing on Aliyev, who came to New York from Azerbaijan last August after winning the green card lottery.
via FastCo
JBAK Street Art
JBAK is a creative partnership between artists James Bullough and Addison Karl. Each artist brings his unique vision and style to their combined body of work. Bullough’s main focus is photo-realism, with attention to ambient and deep space, layers, and geometric forms. He combines contemporary street art techniques and materials with those of realist oil painters, creating pieces of vivid color and masterful detail. Conversely, Addison’s work is produced using a hatch drawing style, which utilizes fine lines and details to create fantastic illustrations of both diminutive and immense images and proportions.
http://vimeo.com/52533308
http://vimeo.com/35320231
Plywood Artworks by Aske, Sicksystems
Dmitri Aske, also known as Sicksystems (previously), is a versatile artist from Moscow, Russia. He started his artistic career in 2000 as a graffiti writer and later started working with plywood cutting to create outstanding and unique artworks.
sicksystems-1
sicksystems-2
sicksystems-3
sicksystems-4
sicksystems-5
sicksystems-6
sicksystems-7
sicksystems-8
sicksystems-9
Dress For The Crash
PUMA has commissioned French street artist Nairone and director Valentine Petit to create this campaign video
nairone-valentinpetit1
nairone-valentinpetit2
Artist Samantha Everton Covers A Building In Her Work
Australian artist Samantha Everton, worked with the architecture practice Kavellaris Urban Design, to create the façade of this new building in Melbourne, Australia. The mixed-use building is called “2 Girls,” and features Everton’s “Masquerade” photo art from her “Vintage Dolls” series, re-created as the building’s façade.
Mago Dovjenko in New York x Highsnobiety
Russia-born illustrator and street goth fashionista Mago Dovjenko (Web/Facebook) flew with the film production team BWGTBLD over to New York and have a bespoke piece of his work thrown up on a Williamsburg wall. Watch as the creative waxes lyrical on his venture, before his larger-than-life mural is thrown up with the assistance of a local crew of street artists.
MAGO-Highsnobiety9
MAGO-Highsnobiety7
MAGO-Highsnobiety6
MAGO-Highsnobiety5
MAGO-Highsnobiety4
MAGO-Highsnobiety3
MAGO-Highsnobiety2
MAGO-Highsnobiety
MAGO-Highsnobiety1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-5HFSc0Qw
Surreal Illustration of Mehdi Ghadyanloo
"Merging the style of the early 20th Century surrealists with contemporary street art, Tehran-based artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo’s work is strange and beguiling. He’s currently in London, busying himself with the mammoth task of creating murals all around the capital, including one measuring a whopping 3.4km. As if that wasn’t enough, he’s also showing at the Howard Griffin Gallery in London, in an exhibition entitled Perception." via
Perception is at the Howard Griffin Gallery in Shoreditch, east London until 2 April.
Mehdi-Ghadyanloo6
Mehdi-Ghadyanloo1
Mehdi-Ghadyanloo2
Mehdi-Ghadyanloo3
Mehdi-Ghadyanloo4
Mehdi-Ghadyanloo5
The Street Art of Portuguese Azulejos
Illustrator and street artist Diogo Machado transformed this plain looking electrical box on the streets of Lisbon into a surprising illusion by making it look like a cracked exterior is revealing a blue tile interior. The piece is an extension of Fuel’s ongoing Street Ceramic work, where modern interpretations of tile patterns (Portugues Azulejos) are installed onto building facades
Mural Portals created by 1010
"Over the last year or so, German street artist 1010 created several of his fantastic spray paint portals in locations around Germany, Panama, and the United States. 1010 brings surprising layers of depth to drab facades and blank gallery walls by painting concentric layers of color. The artist most recently had a solo show at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco titled Limbus." via Colossal
Escif at Street Against
Spanish street artist ESCIF reveals his latest murals on StreetAgainst website and recently in the ongoing book "Elsewhere - An ESCIF Solo Book"
Snow Script in New York
American East Coast is slowly turning to Russian Far East, and blame no one, but Earth's climate changed dramatically. You might seen a lot of snowy photos from New York and other cities last days but here is a different view on natural disaster. NYC based street artist FAUST use nothing but his fingers to create lovely lettering on car hoods covered with snow. This peaceful act of instant art makes a big smile on our faces.
RONE Street Art
Here’s a nice video profile on Melbourne-based street artist, RONE (Instagram). It’s a thing of beauty watching him work, he doesn’t even use a projector. Here he shares insights about his work over process footage of a gigantic 9-storey mural he painted earlier this year. Watch the video below.
http://vimeo.com/111176053
Konstantin Shalev
South-Russian indoor mural artist Konstantin Shalev (Facebook) shares his new works since our last review of his crazy street art characters we did at OFFF2011
Hoxton Window by Nairone
Our friend and a resident of Hellohikimori Paris - legendary illustrator and professional master of grafitti tagging mr. Nairone (Instagram) released his nice collaboration done with London based studio UNIT9. Hoxton Square Bar&Kitchen asked them to decorate a huge street window. Watch it below
nairone-unit9-hoxton2
nairone-unit9-hoxton1
Artful Tagging by RETNA
RETNA (Marquis Lewis) is a contemporary artist, primarily recognized for graffiti art. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, and started his career in the early 1990s. He developed a distinctive constructed script or tagging which is derived from Blackletter, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Arabic, and Hebrew calligraphy, as well as more traditional types of street-based graffiti. In addition to exhibiting at institutions and galleries in Los Angeles, Miami, London, New York and Hong Kong, Retna has done advertising work for brands such as VistaJet, Louis Vuitton, and Nike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjszQGnXKQw&list=PLLdkjkOBv9VTbKbj5VmmltOc1RLMH5wuv
http://vimeo.com/19400373
150 Street Artists Turned An Old Tunisian Village Into An Open-Air Art Museum
150 street artists from 30 countries created an open-air mural museum in Erriadh, a village on the Tunisian island of Djerba and one of the oldest in the country. The project was called “Djerbahood” and was organized by Medhi Ben Cheikh and the Galerie Itinerrance to decorate the village, revive it with new life, and draw more public attention to the island’s vast collection of beautiful street art. Spending almost the whole summer working on their personal murals, the artists left Erriadh on the so-called Island of Dreams with more than 150 stunning pieces decorating its walls, buildings, gates, windows, and doors.
“I wanted to do a project in Tunisia, but it was also a question of logistics,” Ben Cheikh said to NY Times. “I couldn’t send artists to the middle of nowhere. But also because Muslims, Christians and Jews have lived here in peace for the last 2,000 years or so. I’m not here to aggravate anyone, but to consolidate this aspect, which I find beautiful, and together with the natural beauty of the village, provides the artists with a unique canvas.”
via Demilked
Epic Street Art Murals by Borondo
Epic murals and street art created with impressionistic paint strokes from Spain based artist Borondo. You can see more of the exciting work below
