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. 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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