Tag: street-art
The Ancient Antagonism Between Street Artists and Governments
A look at Barcelona’s Street Art scene from its “golden age” to the recent crackdown. Ian Currie argues why it is a cultural asset and should not be criminalized. »
The Illustrated Mythologies of Dan K
Dan Kitchener or DANK is one busy man. Resisting categorization, his art incorporates several branches of technology, from digital paintings to stop frame animation, music videos to AV displays, video games to »
The Graffiti Cubist: an Interview with Hunto
Italy’s Hunto is a great example of the positive artistic benefits of a having a graffiti background – the flow in his work is unmistakable despite his obvious transition away from ‘traditional’ graffiti. He can »
The End of Street Art?
Has Banksy become a brand? And are the consequences of this that the message in his work is often lost in translation? »
A New Old School Style: Interview with Lisbon’s Pariz
You’d instantly recognize Pariz’s work by his colour palette, letter style and fills. Pariz’s work is colourful to say the least but there’s also a futuristic »
The Owls of New York: an Interview with Never
Never is a talented and prolific artist with a flair for characters and text work. The more you see his work the more you get the sense that at some point something somewhere went deeply wrong and painting became an »
Quintessentially American: Interview with Ron English
. Ron English has been creating his surreal brand of Popaganda since the Seventies. From early ad-busting adventures and sabotaging corporate billboards to subversive parodies of pop icons, English is one of the »
The Full Package: Interview with Replete
Replete is a 15 year veteran of the street art scene based in Leeds, UK. His work often incorporates old school writing styles with newer techniques, such as cling film, to create mind blowing anamorphic 3-D optical »
Rosy-Cheeked Realism: Interview with Spain’s Belin
Spain’s street artist Belin is well-known for his rosy-cheeked graffiti characters, which have a strong fine art quality to them. Belin is equally adept at painting »
Bonus Pointz: Interview with New York’s Graffiti Artist, Meres
This interview was written Global Street Art, who are currently crowd-funding a book with independent publisher Unbound; click here for more info. I meet Meres in his »
Jazzing Up A Denim Store
ONE DAY AT A TIME Paint on Wood Raphael Rizzo & I painted this wall for a friend’s jeans shop. We used white paint pens on a black, wooden wall. This picture is about a traveller embarking on a bizarre journey, guided through unknown natural worlds by a »Load more posts ▼