Tribute To Graffiti: 50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks

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Street culture and graffiti are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their territory in some urban area, graffitis have now become a rich medium for unrestricted expression of ideas and statements. In fact, creative designers and artists across the globe use this form of art to deliver their message and showcase their work.

Probably the most prominent graffiti artist is Banksy, a famous pseudo-anonymous British artist whose works focus on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His art has appeared in cities around the world; it’s worth mentioning that Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti or mount exhibitions of screenprints in commercial galleries. You can explore Banksy’s works in the Time’s slideshow The World According To Banksy. However, many different artists explore graffiti in a variety of ways.

In this episode of Monday Inspiration series we are presenting a tribute to street art and graffiti — over 50 examples of beautiful and impressive graffiti artworks. Hopefully everybody will find some inspiration at least in some of the works showcased below. Feel free to explore the works of artists by following the links to their sites.

Graffiti Art

Michael.jh

Mrzer

Deuce 7

Graffiti

zevs

Graffiti

imminentdisaster

Graffiti

Banksy

Graffiti

Graffiti

Marquis Lewis

Graffiti

Retna Saber Revok SeventhLetter

Graffiti

Mr Mucho

Graffiti

Gaia

Graffiti

Wall Spankers Project
Our goal is to bring together international artists and designers in a collaborative, sharing environment. The website serves as an online gallery showcasing the artists involved in the sticker swap. Currently 4 issues are released.

Reone

Reone

Muck

Graffiti

obey

Graffiti

Lady Pink: Sandra Fabara
Lady Pink is a legend. In the 1980s she made a name for herself as one of the only females capable of competing with men in the graffiti subculture.

Lady Pink: Sandra Fabara

Xenz: Graeme Brusby

Graffiti

Graffiti

Graffiti

SABER

Saber

Saber

6emeia

Graffiti

Graffiti

Vancouver Street Art

Graffiti

Graffiti

Graffiti

Graffiti

Collective Graffiti, Chiado, Lisbon

Graffiti

Paopao

Jakedobkin

Lois In Wonderland

Wouldpkr

Hammotime

Abigaelarachnid

Newfie Bullet

OMEN

Newfie Bullet

Loupiote

Stuart Herbert

Seetwist

Wickedcliche

Akbar Simonse

Marco

Josepalencia

Sindios69

Tonogayora

Guy Fawkes

Allan Dalla

Kekko73

Cloud-TA

Loupiote

Laughing Squid

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Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.

  1. 201

    Obama

    October 18th, 2010 8:13 am

    Awesome!

    +1
  2. 202

    andy

    October 30th, 2010 7:51 am

    wue… toh ezztan zuculentozz pero zolo uno m ghuztu….feliziitazionezz a loz grafiiteroz d gran valentiia…. :)…!!!!

    0
  3. 203

    delmacioh

    November 7th, 2010 11:59 pm

    This was GREAT! COOOL! :)

    0
  4. 204

    Rafael

    November 15th, 2010 1:18 am

    The men who are drawing that are simply: Superman!
    Loock here:

    0
  5. 205

    Manuel Dominguez

    November 15th, 2010 1:20 am

    Great graffitties!

    0
  6. 206

    graffiti maker

    November 26th, 2010 7:09 pm

    i love graffiti so much…good graffiti good in our world….Thanks

    0
  7. 207

    russell clarter

    December 3rd, 2010 9:51 am

    obey is shepard fairey

    0
  8. 208

    bilakos

    December 17th, 2010 12:01 am

    asz

    0
  9. 209

    Sean Shockley aka: the Shockster

    January 18th, 2011 10:12 am

    Thanks so much for making my Day! Always been a fan of Graffiti, This is some amazing work!

    +1
  10. 210

    Gillim

    January 26th, 2011 6:39 pm

    Hi there, just became aware of your blog through Google, and found that it’s really informative. I?m going to watch out for brussels. I?ll be grateful if you continue this in future. Many people will be benefited from your writing. Cheers!

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  11. 211

    NasteMag

    February 3rd, 2011 4:38 pm

    Ok list could be better you should follow naste magazine got alot of graffiti posts.

    BTW: read some of the tutorials great magazine keep it up.
    ciao

    0
  12. 212

    laura

    February 4th, 2011 5:29 am

    banksy and obey are definitely not the same person but they are both massive sellouts. where is shok one on here? that bloke is far more original than any of this

    0
  13. 213

    britney

    February 17th, 2011 6:48 pm

    Looks like, your trackback doesn’t work. Can I ping your site?

    0
  14. 214

    Burt Gothier

    March 11th, 2011 11:10 am

    It’s onerous to find educated individuals on this subject, but you sound like you already know what you’re speaking about! Thanks

    0
  15. 215

    Tom Lewis

    April 3rd, 2011 1:04 pm

    Snapclicker does some great graffiti shots around London, its mixed in with his other work, definitely worth checking out http://snapclicker.com/index.php?page=personal

    0
  16. 216

    WFUORNUSUM

    May 4th, 2011 5:36 am

    THIS WAS F***ING AWESOME PICTURES!! THANKS TO THEM WHO HAVE BEEN PAINTING THEM! P’Z

    0
  17. 217

    yeah

    May 4th, 2011 7:25 am

    i will not copy what i c on simsons
    i will not copy what i c on simsons
    i will not copy what i c on simsons

    -1
  18. 218

    xtreem dodger

    May 5th, 2011 4:47 am

    wow, this site rocked me!!

    +1
  19. 219

    silja

    May 21st, 2011 6:40 pm

    thank you
    enjoyed the journey

    0
  20. 220

    sanam

    June 19th, 2011 1:43 am

    i really got inspired by these wonderful art works i am planing to paint on this scale with the colorful composition illustration will speak it self,or any artist can do must be abundance of ideas around,cheers

    0
  21. 221

    H.S.

    June 28th, 2011 2:02 pm

    sweeeeeeeeeeeeet
    stay up stay live stay tuned
    1

    0
  22. 222

    Shasa Hashbrown

    August 19th, 2011 7:24 am

    Thank you so much for posting these. You represented a LOT of beautiful and unique styles. I see commenters mentioning omitted artists like Daim…I love Daim’s art, too, but I understand it’s impossible to fit every artist. How did you all decide to choose these photos? :)

    +1
  23. 223

    Samantha Gomez

    August 26th, 2011 9:07 pm

    Dude, these people are CRAZY talented. I’m not even kidding i was totally blown away and still am! i can draw really good and people say im so good i should become a professional artist and design t-shirts and stuff like that and if i practiced and studied what these people do, i could definetly accomplish drawings like this. People just do this without even thinking about it. I’m only 15 but i can do it with art supplies, a piece of concrete and imagination.

    +2
  24. 224

    Sheila

    October 23rd, 2011 1:40 pm

    Absolutely brilliant!!!
    Real talent and real artists!
    I would love so much to be able to share this page on facebook, but i don’t see any option for that. Please let me know if I can do so.

    0
  25. 225

    TANMAY WALIA

    November 10th, 2011 1:50 am

    ossam,minblowing too good. i have never seen this type if art before.

    0
  26. 226

    marelisa

    November 13th, 2011 10:18 am

    graffiti is my world

    0
  27. 227

    rit4dz

    November 14th, 2011 4:38 am

    Really eye catching. Here is some more
    http://goo.gl/zfntE

    0
  28. 228

    Nazreen16

    November 17th, 2011 7:00 pm

    awsome!!!..really great job of art…it will be my first ispiration of art…you get it!!!now I gonna grafiting my bedroom wall just like you all…really nice huh..

    0
  29. 229

    aidee ocampo

    December 7th, 2011 11:51 am

    Hi i am aidee ocampo i am a student at valley high school i seen your work online and i would like to say that i love your work its gorges and bueatiful and i would love for you to come one day to our school and draw i would love that but thats if you can.I am aidee ocampo at valley high school and i am in 9th grade hope you get to read this and i dont have an email. i have my myspace email so i hope you write back(:

    0

  1. 1

    freshness

    September 14th, 2008 5:51 pm

    nice post, but where are the REAL legends??? can2, daim…etc.

    they are the real oldschool m’fakaz in this business.

    +3
  2. 2

    farfela

    November 25th, 2010 12:47 pm

    No, as far as I know Banksy and Obey are not the same person.

    +3
  3. 3

    Ingram

    September 14th, 2008 8:29 pm

    I really love the drain bunny, cute.

    +2
  4. 4

    mephistopheles

    September 14th, 2008 11:37 pm

    umm, you can correct me if i’m wrong; but i’m pretty sure banksy and obey are the same person. but other than that, great collection.

    +2
  5. 5

    zvonko

    September 14th, 2008 5:35 pm

    thanks for these sm…i really loved some of ‘em…

    +2
  6. 6

    kReEsTaL

    September 17th, 2008 12:14 pm

    Wonderful article! Thank you.

    +2
  7. 7

    Slappy

    February 18th, 2010 6:45 am

    I am so stupid

    +2
  8. 8

    Samantha Gomez

    August 26th, 2011 9:07 pm

    Dude, these people are CRAZY talented. I’m not even kidding i was totally blown away and still am! i can draw really good and people say im so good i should become a professional artist and design t-shirts and stuff like that and if i practiced and studied what these people do, i could definetly accomplish drawings like this. People just do this without even thinking about it. I’m only 15 but i can do it with art supplies, a piece of concrete and imagination.

    +2
  9. 9

    crosone

    September 15th, 2008 2:06 pm

    You’ve left out some greats: Twist, Cope2, Seen, Os Gemeos, I could go on. Do your homework!

    +1
  10. 10

    brian

    September 17th, 2008 1:18 pm

    Nice stuff, but in no way is that classified as graffiti, that’s all “Street art, Stencil art, and Illustration art”.

    +1
  11. 11

    asp

    September 20th, 2008 9:15 am

    it’s fantastic collection. Great!

    +1
  12. 12

    rajaraman

    September 14th, 2008 10:01 pm

    wt a surprise show, I love it

    +1
  13. 13

    Guy

    September 18th, 2008 5:17 pm

    Hey.
    The 6th from the top – the UNKNOWN one is by an NYC artist name “GAIA”.

    Probably should update that gangstar.

    +1
  14. 14

    Joey

    September 19th, 2008 10:54 pm

    THIS BLEW MY MIND
    the “unknown” wheatpaste of the girl is a piece by my cousin in NY

    +1
  15. 15

    mary

    August 25th, 2010 3:30 pm

    The men who are drawing that are simply: Geniuses!

    +1
  16. 16

    Obama

    October 18th, 2010 8:13 am

    Awesome!

    +1
  17. 17

    Sean Shockley aka: the Shockster

    January 18th, 2011 10:12 am

    Thanks so much for making my Day! Always been a fan of Graffiti, This is some amazing work!

    +1
  18. 18

    xtreem dodger

    May 5th, 2011 4:47 am

    wow, this site rocked me!!

    +1
  19. 19

    Shasa Hashbrown

    August 19th, 2011 7:24 am

    Thank you so much for posting these. You represented a LOT of beautiful and unique styles. I see commenters mentioning omitted artists like Daim…I love Daim’s art, too, but I understand it’s impossible to fit every artist. How did you all decide to choose these photos? :)

    +1

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