40 Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks

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Graffiti represents an art form that is unrestricted, one that rebels against conventional forms of artwork. Graffiti is intertwined into human history, dating back to the Roman Empires where they were plastered onto walls to make political statements and satirize current events.

Modern graffiti achieves many of the same things – to state a message that doesn’t necessarily fit into the norms of society. In this collection, for your inspiration and adoration, we present 40 remarkable graffiti and street artwork.

This article follows and adds to an article written last year, entitled Tribute To Graffiti: 50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks.

Remarkable and Creative Graffiti Art

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Vaccine Graffiti

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JR

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C215

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Claus Winkler

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werk, vyal, seak

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Dan

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spok

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swoon

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Adam Neate

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The GC Four

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Peter Baker

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Anarchosyn

Eagle

finbarr (DAC)

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Banksy

Banksy

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Banksy

osloann

osloann

ripo, above

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unknown

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Lachlan

Lachlan

periphery

periphery

periphery

Collaboration between 3dom and Voyder

Walt Jabsco

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Saul

Saul

Flan

Spencer

PaulGreen

PaulGreen

Various artists (MadPoster event)

Dr Case

Dr Case

Lister

Paolo

Generoso Rodriguez Querol

Generoso Rodriguez Querol

Jan

Jan

julien

julien

gábor

gábor

pixelpancho

pixelpancho

pixelpancho

TT Freak

Josh Blair

S O X

S O X

Neal

Neal

Barbara

Barbara

Geoff B.

Geoff B.

Shiratski

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Last Click

Watchmen Premiere Aerosol Graffiti Timelapse Video

MUTO a graffiti, wall-painted animation by BLU

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  1. 101

    Ben

    May 8th, 2009 9:32 am

    Can someone please call the cops… this is vandalism… just kidding.
    “Art is not the crime, the crime is your state of mind”.
    This is a cool selection… its a matter of perspectives, but I would consider most of these murals more than Graffiti… to me Graffiti, needs to have lettering… That would be an interesting post to do. Rest In Peace Boxer !

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  2. 102

    roberto

    May 8th, 2009 12:56 pm

    Check out my tumblr where I post lots of street art, paste ups and stencils http://stencils.tumblr.com

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  3. 103

    mrfidalgo

    May 8th, 2009 4:05 pm
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  4. 104

    little-hollow

    May 9th, 2009 12:16 am

    This reminds me of A Simon and Garfunkel Song

    “The Words Of The Prophets Are Written On The Subway Walls” – Sounds of Silence

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  5. 105

    ZoHrE

    May 9th, 2009 6:23 am

    No 1 Also Banksy

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  6. 106

    Johnny Nothing

    May 9th, 2009 12:29 pm

    OMFG. Watchmen. Truly awesome.

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  7. 107

    piga

    May 10th, 2009 2:46 am

    The name of the artist is BANKSY.

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  8. 108

    jesus fever

    May 10th, 2009 10:24 pm

    The one credited ‘ripo’ is by ESPO, as the linked NYTimes article states.

    Also, Banksy is awful, and by no means creative. Google ‘Blek le Rat’ if you disagree.

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  9. 109

    julie monin

    May 11th, 2009 7:06 am

    the french bulldog has to be named “pollock” please. It is from a french artist: Aurore De Bettignies, based in Berlin. Thks

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  10. 110

    Artur

    May 11th, 2009 8:30 am

    THE SMALL WHITE DOG IS POLLACK

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  11. 111

    BdgBill

    May 11th, 2009 12:32 pm

    Ugh, another article legitimizing graffiti. It has become quite a fad for clueless gallery directors to “discover street artists” lately. We should remember that for every Banksy there are 100,000 little mouthbreathers running around scrawling crap on mailboxes and restroom walls.

    99.9999% of graffiti is simply property damage. The people who like to celebrate it when its on somebody elses building may be less enthusiastic if were on their home, car or business.

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  12. 112

    cruzecon

    May 11th, 2009 2:11 pm

    I have always loved true artistic statements made in public venues. Graffitti can be elegant, stunning, vulgar, subversive and technically and ideologically brilliant. Tagging is NOT graffiti in this sense. I appreciate graffiti but NOT lame tags.

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  13. 113

    xepik

    May 11th, 2009 3:58 pm

    bansky ( L )

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  14. 114

    Weslley

    May 11th, 2009 9:56 pm

    Poderiam colocar alguns graffitis melhor ai, esses são meia boca…

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  15. 115

    Jake Harris

    May 12th, 2009 1:42 am

    I live in Bristol where Banksy has done a lot of his stuff. Although mainly not beautiful the messages he puts with them are mostly funny :D As a 14 year old its always funny seeing this outside the sex clinic in town …

    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/225/448816871_522efba91c.jpg

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  16. 116

    osuss

    May 12th, 2009 4:30 am

    this is nice artwork great collection…!

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  17. 117

    Nicholi

    May 12th, 2009 5:25 am

    These are awesome!

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  18. 118

    Pley

    May 12th, 2009 10:09 am

    Great!! Good Job ñ_ñ

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  19. 119

    typograff

    May 13th, 2009 10:52 am

    Foda demais

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  20. 120

    karim

    May 15th, 2009 11:20 am

    French Graffiti
    http://www.jayenilko.com

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  21. 121

    dollslikeus

    May 19th, 2009 12:53 pm

    I love what you do you are very talented it makes buildings look better people today are paying big money for what you do . Our town is paying a artist 20 thousand dollars to paint on a building .

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  22. 122

    fred

    May 22nd, 2009 3:28 am

    quality, I like this, I saw something like this on http://www.hire-a-graffiti-artist.co.uk It maybe the same?

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  23. 123

    nomes

    May 23rd, 2009 12:42 am

    Im sorry to see that there is no graffiti from daim, becouse he is out of this world…. glad to see you put some of seek’s work.

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  24. 124

    Pierre A. De Lyon

    May 24th, 2009 12:51 am

    You should see the huge work done in Lyon for Total company
    2 x 500m of graff. about history of industry.

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  25. 125

    visua

    June 3rd, 2009 9:44 am

    I really hate when websites like this promote street art as graffiti. You hurt the entire graffiti community by claiming pictures to be graffiti.

    Graffiti is a form of street art. There was some graffiti in there, but most was street art. Please, be accurate. Also, you posted a SEAK piece, and didn’t even mention the REVOK piece clearly above it, effectively leaving out one of the most influential graffiti writers of our time.

    If you are going to do a write up on graffiti, do some research on the community and influences and sub cultures – Not just pretty pictures of writing on the wall you call graffiti.

    You will find an uprise of digital art and graffiti culture that might be more fitting for this audience. Since we are designers and developers – I would suggest looking into tagged in motion and the Graffiti Research Lab for some inspiration that might strike your user base more accurately.

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  26. 126

    Jon Connelly

    June 4th, 2009 10:02 am

    The first one is indeed Banksy, saved as Houston (although done in NYC) on his website and can be seen in his Outdoor Gallery here – http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm

    The actual image can be viewed from a slightly different angle at http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/images/landscapes/nyc/houston.jpg

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  27. 127

    niku

    June 5th, 2009 3:17 pm

    yea the first one is banksy.

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  28. 128

    skes

    June 6th, 2009 4:03 am

    @ neal : i recognize your picture : it’s mc escher works :; how nice youre putting this on a wall! respect!

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  29. 129

    Franck

    June 12th, 2009 8:06 am

    Impressive, inspirational, refreshing my eyes, stunning…

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  30. 130

    Yoghürt

    June 12th, 2009 1:38 pm

    hi i am one of the autors of the wall named Gábor here.
    sadly i missed to make a note on my flickr that is not my individual work but a mural collab with
    G.G. GG and
    The dark lord EEEthe dark lord EEE
    please correct the information if possible.
    sorry from the guys

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  31. 131

    gg

    June 12th, 2009 3:11 pm
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  32. 132

    gg

    June 12th, 2009 3:14 pm

    sorry yogi i havent seen your comment. :P

    dear admins, please delet my last 2 posts. thank you.

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  33. 133

    Daybreak

    June 21st, 2009 6:21 am

    Uh… the top one… is clearly banksy and the one you have marked as Anarchosyn of the birds is actually done Saber, Revok and Retna in the crew msk/AWR hense the Angels Will Rise. Anarchosyn is just the screen name of the person who took the photos if I am not mistaken. And the one you have marked as Claus Winkler is actually done by Revok MSK/AWR and Seak

    You can see more Revok here: http://revok1.com/
    Seak here: http://www.seakone.com http://www.twitter.com/seaking

    for other information and videos of Revok and other affiliated artists spray-painting check out here: http://knowngallery.com/

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  34. 134

    Daybreak

    June 21st, 2009 6:43 am

    I want to make a comment to ‘Sean’ who says:
    ‘If you’re going to force your art on the public by ruining property, you’d better be good. Or else you should get IDIOT tattooed on your forehead or something.’

    A lot of the guys who write graffiti notice that advertising and billboards and stuff are invading all of our visual space by spamming their advertisements. So the graffiti artists think if the advertisers can just put up what ever they want in OUR visual space, just because they have money, that they (the graffiti artists) might as well do the same. The advertisers never asked US if they can force their spam on us… So graffiti artists kind of have the same mind set in a way, they just don’t have the kind of money these corporations do..

    Oh… and I don’t see how changing the colour of a surface is actually destroying property anyway?

    =3 <3

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  35. 135

    shravan Mishra

    July 3rd, 2009 6:56 am

    Beautiful collection of pictures.

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  36. 136

    se

    July 24th, 2009 3:21 am

    It alright, you’ve missed alot of good artists and put in alot of filler, but whatever.

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  37. 137

    James

    July 25th, 2009 2:13 am

    The first one, “There is no such thing as good publicity”, is by Banksy.

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  38. 138

    Guilherme

    August 7th, 2009 7:00 am

    The first one is Banksy too.

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  39. 139

    Miss Kitty

    October 27th, 2009 10:55 pm

    the ‘Vardon Ave’ one of the boxer guy punching monocle-spring head man is actually in my hometown [Adelaide, SA, Australia] and i saw it slowly being created! they dragged a couch out from a nearby store to chill on, haha
    its actually a ton bigger than shown here and was done by the guys at http://www.everfreshstudio.com [their website has been sprayed in the bottom right corner on the mural.]

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  40. 140

    paolo

    March 26th, 2010 7:07 am

    Amazing photos! but there isn’t only Bansky…. Look some italian’s graffiti http://www.urbantrash.net/graffiti/street-art/

    I hope you’ll like it

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  41. 141

    sdhsfh

    April 20th, 2010 6:34 pm
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  42. 142

    domke

    May 20th, 2010 10:50 am

    this stuff is sane

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  43. 143

    aylin

    July 19th, 2010 4:16 pm

    that was awsome and that girl with the ear phones is awsome too

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  44. 144

    ?!@CEnFFE

    July 28th, 2010 8:55 pm

    spray painting is art only to be expressed on paper not public property.
    that’s what i hear

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  45. 145

    ?!@CEnFFE

    July 28th, 2010 8:57 pm

    lol that will never happen.

    spray paint live forever-?!@CEnFFE

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  46. 146

    strom

    August 10th, 2010 4:00 am

    most of this is street art, not graffiti. get some real pieces going here and you’ll see real talent. Banksy is a complete hack! graffiti is free art, not $250000 art, his stuff requires no skill and he lacks composition and free hand graffiti skills. Stencils are not real graffiti, they are just a method of graffiti which allows you to be loved by idiots when your not even good. Steal a photo off the net, increase the contrast, cut it out, then use it to put pictures all over town that are respected by people who do not graff, and why not go over real graffiti at the same time and have no respect for the scene you have entered.

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  47. 147

    wIlMeR

    August 29th, 2010 9:57 am

    exelentes fotografias, la mayoria de los grafos son realmente impresionantes y muy realistas_____sos unos buenos trabajos

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  48. 148

    Mofo

    October 4th, 2010 9:26 pm

    From what I see it’s mostly European stuff… for graffiti and streetart art lovers check out some cool graffiti in Montreal Canada at http://redbrickalley.com

    peace!

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  49. 149

    Romano Nikz

    November 11th, 2010 10:41 pm

    very nice pics !!

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  50. 150

    CJ (LOST)

    January 17th, 2011 4:33 pm

    well for everyone who likes these pics but hate the tags on the walls, they have no idea how all these people started as (kids tagging on walls) but as some dropped off the real artist kept bombing and eventually you will catch a break from the people and cops, and they will name and brand your work and thats how you get to be on the internet and have random people comment on your work.

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  51. 151

    georgia

    April 28th, 2011 8:47 am

    wow coool , magaria dzaan

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  52. 152

    Sanoj

    April 29th, 2011 11:10 pm

    I have watch this video really very different and unique animation .. it take really a log time to convert in animation.

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  53. 153

    a55

    June 1st, 2011 8:30 pm

    1st’s gotta be BANKSY!

    +1
  54. 154

    bobby

    July 10th, 2011 2:08 pm

    Hate to break it to ya but just about everything posted here isn’t real graffiti. Graffiti is based on letter form. What most of this is is “street art” by deffinition is very very different.

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  55. 155

    MIGUEL REYNA

    August 25th, 2011 11:12 am

    BANKSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  56. 156

    E. Sheppard

    December 13th, 2011 7:34 pm

    I like graffiti… and street art… but something in me also likes blank spaces or just plain old brick… and the same or other graffiti on the inside too, as art. Maybe some of these may be saved and part of a museum exhibit some day.

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  1. 1

    Bubba

    May 6th, 2009 7:04 am

    Pretty sure the first one is Banksy.

    +2
  2. 2

    Greg

    May 6th, 2009 7:32 am

    In Mother Russia, wall graffitis you… :(

    +1
  3. 3

    STPo

    May 6th, 2009 7:33 am

    Lots of pioneers missing…
    Mode2, Daim, 123Klan and so many more! Disappointing.

    +1
  4. 4

    a55

    June 1st, 2011 8:30 pm

    1st’s gotta be BANKSY!

    +1

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