graffoto: photorealistic graffiti to make you drool Comments

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Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:00:52 +0000

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Thu, 5 May 2011 09:16:00 +0000

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Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:46:37 +0000

Thanks Deputy This is a great page !!! nrich 123 what is your problem? are you a simpleton? why are you saying.."outrages movie of this 'vandal' Belin who trashes a school wall. Unbelievable none of the teachers stopped him" is it to get people like me annoyed? cos its working. Im not going to explain what belin is doing here as it's obvious, except to you whats going on but I'd like to know what counts as art to you? Turner? Constable? or an art form that is currently the biggest Art movement in the world? Is it because Watercolour challenge has finished and you've nothing to do in afternoons? If you dont like looking at graffiti why are you looking at this site? I try and paint photorealism, I am nothing compared to these guys but I consider what I attempt to do "art", I know for damn sure its more "art" than a pile of bricks at the tate, a shark in a tank or for that matter something by the art worlds latest dick banksy. Photorealism takes so much skill, perserverance, can control, and patience, have you ever used a can of paint? have you any idea just how difficult this is? it's an artform, end of!!

z3bbster

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:35:17 +0000

TRUE ARTISTS!! thanks so much for the great article.

Benjamin Moore Paint

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:17:49 +0000

Some really amazing artwork here. By any chance does Benjamin Moore make spray cans or just paintbrush paint?

Konsumterra

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:07:01 +0000

Tags are calligraphy. Most pieces, also, are calligraphy. Straight-up, totally unambiguous. Calligraphy. The letterforms are gorgeous and wholly abstracted. Abstracted so totally, that many artlovers have no idea a dialogue is taking place right beneath their noses. It's like a thieves' cant. This says more about the people missing the point than the artists twisting letters into fantastic new shapes. I run a legal graff wall in Sydney called Mays Lane. It's undertaken with the giddy, constant approval of the locals... all of them. You won't hear that on the news (I know, I've tried. And tried... and tried.) And I have a back wall in my own yard we bombed with five or so artists over one wonderful weekend. The owner simply walked away, bemused. I think you're probably prety ignorant but please, consider this - billboard advertising is, to me, ugly as sin. And. It's. Absolutely. Everywhere. I'd rather the work of talented local artists than some crap dreamt up by a PR company and believe me, younger graff artists know the dominant, boring, corporate aesthetic surrounding us now will die along with its supporters. Generational change will deliver us from the bounds of the aesthetically inflexible and the artistically ignorant.

J | Medical Lab Coat

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:37:05 +0000

I love the third one. The look on that guy's face is seriously funny. Hahaha

smates

Fri, 15 May 2009 13:53:19 +0000

@ nrich 123 Almost every piece you see from (for example) Belin is done on commission (it's the man's job, Can you believe that?!)... Check this movie (outrages movie of this 'vandal' Belin who trashes a school wall. Unbelievable none of the teachers stopped him...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iktoMSVPqyg&fe... Even crazier: these vandals had the time to illegally (quote: It's somewhat illuminating, isn't it, that of all the millions of people who own their own house, not one has acted on the desire to spraypaint their own fence or wall.) paint almost an entire building!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKp97SjWD4 Sorry for my bad English.

Lindsay

Thu, 14 May 2009 21:28:09 +0000

Ronseal's marketing team are obviously slipping. Their message hasn't got to nrich123 who comments "It's somewhat illuminating, isn't it, that of all the millions of people who own their own house, not one has acted on the desire to spraypaint their own fence or wall." They must be gutted after spending all that money on advertising http://www.ronseal.co.uk/howto/fence_spray.jsp

Oliver Schaef

Wed, 13 May 2009 16:43:28 +0000

thank you for this overview of great photorealistic graffiti artists! Here is a link to more photos of the art of herakut and their drawings in Nuremberg!

Sib

Mon, 11 May 2009 15:45:30 +0000

Never mind the negative comments. Van Gogh also got his share when he was still alive. Most of this is pure brilliance.

Television Spy

Fri, 8 May 2009 15:03:21 +0000

these pics are a surrealist nightmare

andyb

Fri, 8 May 2009 14:49:37 +0000

Sometimes I watch the freight trains go by here.Some of the box cars have some really nice art on them.Lots of them say where they are from(Canada,Texas,Minnisota etc) and it seems they are basically talking to each other in an art form lol.

Dave_K

Fri, 8 May 2009 12:50:08 +0000

just as a sidenote, in response to Graffiti painting on houses, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KelburnCastle01... Kelburn Castle Scotland, cant remember if youve featured this before or not

deputydog

Fri, 8 May 2009 09:48:11 +0000

nice photo. too many people seem scared to break from the norm. 'hang on. you've got money and you didn't buy a bare-walled mcmansion? you filthy pig'. i'd pay good money for graffiti of the quality seen above to be painted on my house.

Nathan Zeldes

Fri, 8 May 2009 09:37:33 +0000

Well, at any rate SOME people like their houses painted... that's why they have all those painted monasteries in Romania. :-) e.g. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biserica_Arbore... .

Dave K

Fri, 8 May 2009 09:08:25 +0000

another awesome post DD, and a very well written response to the close minded and offensive comment left by nrich123. I for one would be honoured to have art of this caliber on any property that i own, I will also say that stating tags are "setting the bar pretty low" is a ridiculous statement, sure a quick scrawl on a bare wall is nothing amazing, but some of the most impressive graffiti art that i have seen has been the tags dreamt up by these artists. I guess its all down to personal opinion and everyone is entitled to their own, but no matter where these pieces of art are and the legality of their creation, you cant deny the massive amount of talent displayed by these artists, keep it up

deputydog

Fri, 8 May 2009 08:30:02 +0000

banal?! incredible, i literally couldn't disagree with you more. these designs are unique and inspired and for someone to label them as banal makes absolutely no sense to me, even when that someone seemingly has a problem with the artform itself. and as for herakut's work being poorly executed, i think you're either completely missing the point or successfully attempting to wind me up. if i wasn't so sure that you'll never like this kind of shit i'd suggest you check out their work on flickr here. the subjects they feature are painted beautifully and while aspects of their work offer a skewed view of reality, they are all executed amazingly well. re: legalities, you presume incorrectly. not all graffiti is illegal and i'm almost certain that all of these pieces have either been sprayed on property with prior consent, commissioned by the property-owners themselves (imagine that!) or sprayed onto canvas. unless they stole the canvas before they started i see no problem. finally, i'd love to know where you found this statistic: 'of all the millions of people who own their own house, not one has acted on the desire to spraypaint their own fence or wall'. i'll bet you all the spraypaint in the world that this is extremely far from the truth.

nrich123

Fri, 8 May 2009 00:13:31 +0000

Thankyou for these photos. The graffitii you show here are certainly somewhat more sophisticated than the repetitive barely legible 'signatures' - I guess these are what you refer to as 'tags' - that blight my daily journey into London. But that is setting the bar pretty low. These works are derivative and banal, and in some cases poorly executed -herakut's goateed man has a serious disfigurement. And presumably they are subject to the same criticism of all graffiti -- they are a defacement of someone else's property. It's somewhat illuminating, isn't it, that of all the millions of people who own their own house, not one has acted on the desire to spraypaint their own fence or wall. These 'artists' of stolen space are scarcely treading new ground.