The Ultra-Realistic Graffiti Portraits of Jorit Agoch
Jorit Agoch is a famous Italian graffiti artist known for his clean style and large-scale, ultra-realistic portrait murals painted on the side of buildings all over the world. Over the last 16 years, we’ve featured many impressive graffiti artworks, like the mind-boggling optical illusions of Portuguese street artist Odeith, the ingenious portraits of Fabio Gomes […]
French Artist Turns Urban Spaces Into Mind-Boggling Graffiti Optical Illusions
Armed with a simply can of spray paint, French artist SCAF uses his imagination and mountains of talent to turn abandoned urban spaces into three-dimensional graffiti masterpieces. Looking at SCAF’s expertly spray-painted trompe l’oeil graffiti artworks, it’s hard to believe that he is a completely self-taught street artist. He never studied art and started experimenting […]
Florist Turns New York Trash Cans into Beautiful Vases Full of Color
If you live in New York City, chances are you’ve already stumbled across a most peculiar sight – a public trash containing a large, colorful arrangement of flowers, making it look like a giant vase. They have been popping up all around the Big Apple, stopping people in their tracks and putting a smile on their […]
Amateur Artist Turns Apartment Building into Urban Art Gallery
Dmitry Bochkarev, an amateur artist, from Moscow, Russia, has turned an ugly communist-era apartment building into a colorful art gallery, by covering the walls, staircases and doors with various painted artworks. While most graffiti artists sneak around to find places where they can exercise their artistic talents, amateur artist Dmitry Bochkarev asked people’s permission before he […]
Artist Creates Large Scale Portraits by Chipping Away the Plaster Off of Derelict Buildings
Can beauty be created out of destruction and chaos? Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto believes that it can, and offers his incredible chiseled portraits on the side of buildings, as proof. 23-year-old Farto, aka Vhils, grew up in Seixal, on the outskirts of Lisbon, and became interested in graffiti art during the late 1990s. Apparently, at […]
An Art Eggcident in Leeuwarden
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if giant eggs started falling from the sky, right in the middle of your city? Of course you haven’t, but Hank Hofstra has and he decided to show the whole world. Dutch artist Hank Hofstra was tired of looking at boring old Zaailand, the main square […]
Ben Wilson’s Tiny Chewing Gum Masterpieces
English urban artist Ben Wilson has made it his mission to make the streets of London more colorful, by painting every piece of old chewing gum he can find on the pavement. Over the last six years, Wilson has been roaming the streets of London, looking for pieces of chewing gum to turn into miniature […]
Creative Poster Urban Art Spotted in Berlin
This may not be the weirdest thing you see today but I’m sure it’s one of the most inspiring ways of dealing with junk like excess posters. I hate it when too many posters gather on top of each other, and no one cares to clean them up. I’m thinking I may not be the […]
Fairytale Urban Art Spotted in the Ukraine
It’s amazing how many incredible artistic wonders go unnoticed, simply because they’re so well hidden that no one knows about them. This particular artwork is set up at the 13th floor of an Ukrainian apartment building, in Kiev. It’s really hard to describe, and even looking at the amazing photos below, it’s hard to understand […]