Urban Art - Graffiti art and style writing from around the world.

Welcome to the largest virtual art gallery devoted to street art - graphics painted on outdoor walls of buildings, mostly in urban areas such as New York City, Miami, Paris, Amsterdam, and the like. Though street art is usually identified with graffiti and or tags , as you can see by the photo to the left, it is a great deal more. The artists that produce street art are, indeed, artists. Some have become quite famous, e.g. Keith Haring, and Basquiat. When you come upon street art, on the street, it can be an overwhelming experience. Since you re never sure when or where you ll make such a discovery, it comes as a visual surprise, a dazzling visual surprise; dazzling, because of the combination of dynamic, well executed graphic, the texture of the wall it is painted on, and the entire street setting, all of it coming at you at once. Unfortunately, street art is usually short lived, gone within days or certainly weeks after it is completed. The only permanent record of these works are photographs. And the best photographs of these works are those taken by internationaly renowned photographer, Bob Edelson. He has been able to capture street art on film to provide much the same excitement as actually seeing these works as they existed. A particularly memorable example follows below. In the 1999 NYC skyline mural, Bob captures the dramatic visual impact of the mural-in-its-surroundings. All street art shown on this site was photographed by Bob Edelson . His photography has been...

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