SpY's pieces are meant to shake up the equilibrium of an urban dweller. All of them have different styles and approaches, but they all share one thing in common – their art has left a lasting impression. Invader has also created QR code mosaics out of black-and-like tiles that can be decoded with a smartphone app, (one such message read, “This is an invasion”). Inspired by the video games he played as a youngster during the 1970s and ’80s, Invader creates mosaic images out of tiles to recall the eight-bit pixels of early computer graphics—most especially, his signature motif: The Pac-Man-like alien featured in the video game classic, Space Invaders (from which the artist also takes his name). Harry, 11 United Kingdom Made in Street Art. Swoon (neé Callie Curry) has exhibited her work in museums and galleries, but she is best known for large, intricately cut and pasted paper murals made from recycled newsprint which she began to create in 1999. Tracy 168, neé Michael Tracy. Anonymous street artist & artivist Goin is priming the charges and leaving creativity’s spark to light the fuse of a new humanist activism. All rights reserved. Regarding the above piece, the artist says: “When I was in Lisbon, Portugal three months ago, I would walk by this homeless lady who was begging for money everyday. Read. In addition to street art, Invader creates two- and three-dimensional works out of Rubik's Cubes in a style he calls Rubikcubism. His brand of socially conscious street art consists of posting mural-size photographic images on walls—sometimes with permission, sometimes without—around the world. The Pandolfos, who hail from São Paulo, Brazil, started out break dancing in the São Paulo hip-hop scene before gravitating towards street art in the late 1980s. In fact, it's extremely difficult, and that's precisely why these street artists deserve so much respect. In the past, they've paired with Amnesty International, using this technique to bring attention to social causes. From his powerful works in at a refugee camp in Calais, France to his participation in the #WithSyria campaign, the iconic street artist shows no signs of slowing down. RELATED: The Best Murals of 2013 (So Far)RELATED: The 50 Greatest Street Artists Right NowRELATED: Green Label - The 10 Most Influential Street Artists of the Past 10 Years. Photograph: Jason Szenes/Epa/Rex/Shutterstock. He began drawing in chalk inside the spaces reserved for ads in the stations; when empty, these areas were covered with sheets of black paper, which essentially became Haring’s canvases as he began to work out the pop iconography—radiant babies, dancing figures, flying saucers—that brought him fame. Banksy is the gold standard when it comes to urban street art. Thanks for subscribing! Visit My Modern Met Media. The French capital is also where he first began to mount his mosaics on the sides of building in the 1990s. Three years later, in NYC, the mysterious British street artist took the city by storm with his unexpected Better In Than Out project.
Hamilton Yokota, aka Titi Freak, is a São Paulo native with Japanese ancestry whose art combines his cultural backgrounds. We already have this email. His work is full of irony and a positive sense of humor, seeking to inspire a smile and a thought. © 2020 Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Toward the end of the decade, he began to spray paint stenciled images that mixed pop-cultural references and subversive political themes on walls and bridges around Bristol and London (he has since gone world-wide).