A Tribute to 5 Pointz: The Graffiti Street Art Mecca of NYC

New York City is on the verge of losing one of it’s most recognizable landmarks. 5 Pointz, also known as the “Phun Phactory” is set to be demolished and replaced with high-rise apartment building complexes. While most residents of New York City could care less, artists from not only the city, but around the world are up in arms about the decision to remove the graffiti mecca that has blessed our city for over 30 years. Read more of this post

When Walls Talk: An Exploration of Graffiti Through The Queer Lense (Queering Graffiti), Part IV: The Writing on The Wall

Part I: The Beginning

Part II: Social Analysis of Graffiti

Part III: The Street Art Movement

L.A. street artist Jeremy Novy openly combines his sexuality with his graffiti art; he utilizes the Warhol-esque adoption of pop icon images, queers them, and creates stencil versions.  (Stencils are exactly as they sound-typically, negative space in an image is cut out, and the remaining framework creates a stencil.  Read more of this post

3D Sketchbook Artwork

Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki creates amazing sketchbook drawings that when viewed from the right angle, appear to create a realistic 3D illusion. The 21-year-old uses a technique called “anamorphosis” in which the talented artist is able to create these mind-boggling masterpieces that seem to come to life right out of his sketchbook. Nagai was a big fan of street art, but quickly discovered that drawing on the streets of Japan was illegal, so he turned to sketchbooks to exercise his talents. Read more of this post

When Walls Talk: An Exploration of Graffiti Through The Queer Lense (Queering Graffiti), Part III: The Street Art Movement

Part I: The Beginning

Part II: Social Analysis of Graffiti

Canadian graffiti culture reinforced hegemonic structures of gender oppression in K FEVER’s experience, however the female graffiti artists from New York City did not identify with the same type of discrimination.   Read more of this post

Amazing 3D Street Art

Street painting, also commonly known as “pavement art, chalk art, sidewalk art, is the performance art of rendering artistic designs on pavement such as streets, sidewalks, and town squares with impermanent and semi-permanent materials.”

It began in the United States when an artist named Sidewalk Sam began painting the streets of Boston in 1973. After being influenced by his works, American artist Kurt Wenner traveled to Europe and began painting the streets. In 1984 he was documented by National Geographic in their film Masterpieces In Chalk. That same year he won the title of “Maestro Madonnaro” (“best” or “featured” chalk artist) at the Grazie festival.

Today this work is called 3D Street Painting, 3D Pavement Art, 3D Chalk Art, 3D Sidewalk Art, 3D Illusion, anamorphic or 3D, and it’s brilliance is spreading globally.

Here is a look at some of the most amazing 3D street paintings that we came across:

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