Onebyfourbynine

From Blu's : "MUTO, an ambiguous animation painted on public walls."

Found on Mediacology.

I love good street art as much as I hate bad graffiti. It's free, subversive and you don't have to go to a museum or a gallery to see it... What more should the masses expect from pop art? So anyway, nothing new blogging about Banksy, but just how good is this guy? Not many artists are able to capture the essence of contemporary pop culture, chew it and spit it in such a concise and accessible form... Also love the combination of artwork and location, which usually plays a large part in the message. Like Shepard Fairey he attracted a fair amount of flak over the years (boohoo he sold out to the system), but really his detractors should get busy and start creating things of their own... At the very least you could say he fills the basic job description of street art in terms of being controversial and getting a reaction out of people.

Banksy's online gallery here.

Also check out this interview by Shepard Fairey.

"Ossario" is a cool intervention by Sao Paolo reverse graffiti artist Alexandre Orion to protest against our passive acceptance of pollution. He creates his images by removing soot from the walls - effectively cleaning the surfaces he draws on. Brazilian authorities at first reacted by cleaning only the part he had worked on - he simply kept on drawing on the other side. Apparently authorities then took more drastic actions by cleaning all of the towns's tunnels... Mission accomplished I guess.

On a lighter tone also check out Scott Wade's Dirty Car Art gallery.

Bandit is a Spanish street artist I recently had the chance to meet. I am glad I did so as to me some of his creations are up there with some of Banksy's best works.