Tribute To Graffiti: 50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks
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
Retna Saber Revok SeventhLetter
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.
Muck
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.
Collective Graffiti, Chiado, Lisbon
Further Resources
- Graffwriter
Create your custom graffiti artwork. - Reverse Graffiti
Eco-friendly graffiti created by actually cutting through and cleaning up grit to leave a lasting impression. - Graffiti finds its place in contemporary art
A young French graffiti artist who goes by the tag name Teurk, clambered onto the ruins of an old bridge and set to work with an aerosol can. - Crookedbrains:Beautiful Graffiti Art
Graffiti from the walls of Israel/Palestine,Brazil and Ukranian - Rene Gagnon:Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionism
Bridging the Gap Between Urban Graffiti Art and Contemporary Abstract Expressionism. - Artist Draws ‘Clean’ Graffiti from Dirty Walls
A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels
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danielherdman
February 16th, 2012 9:37 pmyou are cool doing art on streets
and diffferent to others tags
delmacioh
November 7th, 2010 11:59 pmThis was GREAT! COOOL! :)
Rafael
November 15th, 2010 1:18 amThe men who are drawing that are simply: Superman!
Loock here:
Manuel Dominguez
November 15th, 2010 1:20 amGreat graffitties!
graffiti maker
November 26th, 2010 7:09 pmi love graffiti so much…good graffiti good in our world….Thanks
russell clarter
December 3rd, 2010 9:51 amobey is shepard fairey
bilakos
December 17th, 2010 12:01 amasz
Sean Shockley aka: the Shockster
January 18th, 2011 10:12 amThanks so much for making my Day! Always been a fan of Graffiti, This is some amazing work!
Gillim
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NasteMag
February 3rd, 2011 4:38 pmOk 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
laura
February 4th, 2011 5:29 ambanksy 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
britney
February 17th, 2011 6:48 pmLooks like, your trackback doesn’t work. Can I ping your site?
Burt Gothier
March 11th, 2011 11:10 amIt’s onerous to find educated individuals on this subject, but you sound like you already know what you’re speaking about! Thanks
Tom Lewis
April 3rd, 2011 1:04 pmSnapclicker 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
WFUORNUSUM
May 4th, 2011 5:36 amTHIS WAS F***ING AWESOME PICTURES!! THANKS TO THEM WHO HAVE BEEN PAINTING THEM! P’Z
yeah
May 4th, 2011 7:25 ami 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
xtreem dodger
May 5th, 2011 4:47 amwow, this site rocked me!!
silja
May 21st, 2011 6:40 pmthank you
enjoyed the journey
sanam
June 19th, 2011 1:43 ami 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
H.S.
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Shasa Hashbrown
August 19th, 2011 7:24 amThank 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? :)
Samantha Gomez
August 26th, 2011 9:07 pmDude, 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.
Sheila
October 23rd, 2011 1:40 pmAbsolutely 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.
TANMAY WALIA
November 10th, 2011 1:50 amossam,minblowing too good. i have never seen this type if art before.
marelisa
November 13th, 2011 10:18 amgraffiti is my world
rit4dz
November 14th, 2011 4:38 amReally eye catching. Here is some more
http://goo.gl/zfntE
Nazreen16
November 17th, 2011 7:00 pmawsome!!!..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..
aidee ocampo
December 7th, 2011 11:51 amHi 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(:
Aro
February 27th, 2012 8:39 pmFirst off you guys have no idea what you’re talking about. Graffiti did NOT orifinate from gangs. Graffiti came about from the experimentation of two Philidelphia kids that practiced writing their names on the walls in the early seventies. then, the famous “taki 183″ took it to a whole new level, advancing the system and handstyle of tagging until newspapers noticed him and wrote an article about his work. once this interview was puplished, graffiti migrated to new york and took root, as kids wrote their names everywhere in their own unique style to become heroes in their own communities. THAT’S how it started. not when some little bitches decided to throw up their gang name. why don’t you do a little research before you say stupid shit like that.