40 Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks
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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Collaboration between 3dom and Voyder
Various artists (MadPoster event)
Last Click
Watchmen Premiere Aerosol Graffiti Timelapse Video
MUTO a graffiti, wall-painted animation by BLU
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Ben
May 8th, 2009 9:32 amCan 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 !
roberto
May 8th, 2009 12:56 pmCheck out my tumblr where I post lots of street art, paste ups and stencils http://stencils.tumblr.com
mrfidalgo
May 8th, 2009 4:05 pmMany Bansky artworks http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm
little-hollow
May 9th, 2009 12:16 amThis reminds me of A Simon and Garfunkel Song
“The Words Of The Prophets Are Written On The Subway Walls” – Sounds of Silence
ZoHrE
May 9th, 2009 6:23 amNo 1 Also Banksy
Johnny Nothing
May 9th, 2009 12:29 pmOMFG. Watchmen. Truly awesome.
piga
May 10th, 2009 2:46 amThe name of the artist is BANKSY.
jesus fever
May 10th, 2009 10:24 pmThe 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.
julie monin
May 11th, 2009 7:06 amthe french bulldog has to be named “pollock” please. It is from a french artist: Aurore De Bettignies, based in Berlin. Thks
Artur
May 11th, 2009 8:30 amTHE SMALL WHITE DOG IS POLLACK
BdgBill
May 11th, 2009 12:32 pmUgh, 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.
cruzecon
May 11th, 2009 2:11 pmI 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.
xepik
May 11th, 2009 3:58 pmbansky ( L )
Weslley
May 11th, 2009 9:56 pmPoderiam colocar alguns graffitis melhor ai, esses são meia boca…
Jake Harris
May 12th, 2009 1:42 amI 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
osuss
May 12th, 2009 4:30 amthis is nice artwork great collection…!
Nicholi
May 12th, 2009 5:25 amThese are awesome!
Pley
May 12th, 2009 10:09 amGreat!! Good Job ñ_ñ
typograff
May 13th, 2009 10:52 amFoda demais
karim
May 15th, 2009 11:20 amFrench Graffiti
http://www.jayenilko.com
dollslikeus
May 19th, 2009 12:53 pmI 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 .
fred
May 22nd, 2009 3:28 amquality, I like this, I saw something like this on http://www.hire-a-graffiti-artist.co.uk It maybe the same?
nomes
May 23rd, 2009 12:42 amIm 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.
Pierre A. De Lyon
May 24th, 2009 12:51 amYou should see the huge work done in Lyon for Total company
2 x 500m of graff. about history of industry.
visua
June 3rd, 2009 9:44 amI 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.
Jon Connelly
June 4th, 2009 10:02 amThe 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
niku
June 5th, 2009 3:17 pmyea the first one is banksy.
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!
Franck
June 12th, 2009 8:06 amImpressive, inspirational, refreshing my eyes, stunning…
Yoghürt
June 12th, 2009 1:38 pmhi 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
gg
June 12th, 2009 3:11 pmthe one titled gabor is made by 3 people:
yoghürt:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yoghurt/
eerie-t:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deliver_the_eerie/
gg:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27952233@N04/
gg
June 12th, 2009 3:14 pmsorry yogi i havent seen your comment. :P
dear admins, please delet my last 2 posts. thank you.
Daybreak
June 21st, 2009 6:21 amUh… 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/
Daybreak
June 21st, 2009 6:43 amI 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
shravan Mishra
July 3rd, 2009 6:56 amBeautiful collection of pictures.
se
July 24th, 2009 3:21 amIt alright, you’ve missed alot of good artists and put in alot of filler, but whatever.
James
July 25th, 2009 2:13 amThe first one, “There is no such thing as good publicity”, is by Banksy.
Guilherme
August 7th, 2009 7:00 amThe first one is Banksy too.
Miss Kitty
October 27th, 2009 10:55 pmthe ‘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.]
paolo
March 26th, 2010 7:07 amAmazing 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
ｓｄｈｓｆｈ
April 20th, 2010 6:34 pm新宿 マッサージ
domke
May 20th, 2010 10:50 amthis stuff is sane
aylin
July 19th, 2010 4:16 pmthat was awsome and that girl with the ear phones is awsome too
?!@CEnFFE
July 28th, 2010 8:55 pmspray painting is art only to be expressed on paper not public property.
that’s what i hear
?!@CEnFFE
July 28th, 2010 8:57 pmlol that will never happen.
spray paint live forever-?!@CEnFFE
strom
August 10th, 2010 4:00 ammost 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.
wIlMeR
August 29th, 2010 9:57 amexelentes fotografias, la mayoria de los grafos son realmente impresionantes y muy realistas_____sos unos buenos trabajos
Mofo
October 4th, 2010 9:26 pmFrom 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!
Romano Nikz
November 11th, 2010 10:41 pmvery nice pics !!
CJ (LOST)
January 17th, 2011 4:33 pmwell 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.
georgia
April 28th, 2011 8:47 amwow coool , magaria dzaan
Sanoj
April 29th, 2011 11:10 pmI have watch this video really very different and unique animation .. it take really a log time to convert in animation.
a55
June 1st, 2011 8:30 pm1st’s gotta be BANKSY!
bobby
July 10th, 2011 2:08 pmHate 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.
MIGUEL REYNA
August 25th, 2011 11:12 amBANKSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
E. Sheppard
December 13th, 2011 7:34 pmI 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.