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Grafitti Masters
This selection includes information about the artists and a lot of photos of their work, a lot of graffiti artists do a lot of great pieces but these guys just kill it. Artists from all over the world that you can miss out. I'll try to keep this post going as a series to bring more of this for you.
Binho
Born in Brazil, Binho Ribeiro is one of the main names of the world's street art, and one of the pioneers from Brazil and the South America, The artist conquers respect wherever he goes: San Thiago, Buenos Aires, Nagoya, Tokyo and almost every state of Brazil has been the stage for his unmeasured talent.
His street work is so good that he actually got called to do some illustrations for Nescau, did ad campaigns to Ford, Brasil Telecom, Skol, and much more. Binho has a style that brings life to every element of his creation. He is an editor of the magazine "Graffiti", loves skate with passion, and also loves the business world.
Craola
Greg Simkins was born in 1975 in Torrance California, just south of Los Angeles. He grew up with a menagerie of animals including a number of rabbits, which often emerge in his paintings. He began drawing at the early age of three and was inspired by various cartoons and books. Some standout books that still find there way into his art are Watership Down by Richard Adams, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis and The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.
Simkins’ art continued to progress to the age of 18, when he started doing graffiti under the name Craola. Graffiti art became his impetus for creating and gave him the confidence to paint large works. In addition, it taught him perspective, color theory and further developed artistic skills, which later translated into his work with acrylics.
After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art from California State University of Long Beach in 1999, Simkins worked as an Illustrator for various clothing companies. He later moved on to Treyarch/Activision where he worked on video games including Tony Hawk 2X, Spiderman 2 and Ultimate Spiderman while attempting to paint with every free minute he had.
In 2005, Simkins pursued his desire to paint as a full time artist. Since then, he has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and has successfully sold out four solo exhibitions. His art is seen in a wide variety of industries from clothing to video games and has also come to life in the form of toys. His client/collaboration list includes Disney, Mattel, Upper Playground, Juxtapoz, To Die For, Vans, Converse, AFI, Saosin, Gym Class Heroes, Pennywise, STRANGEco, Ningyoushi, Kid Robot, Zero Friends, Epitaph, Dark Horse, Iron Fist and Pulse International.
Simkins’ artwork currently appears in galleries throughout the country.
For more visit www.imscared.com
ASYLM
Involved in the graffiti movement since 1989, Asylm began his quest to develop a recognizable graff style on the walls of the Los Angeles River. Amazed to see what could be created with simple cans of spray paint, Asylm felt he could contribute a different flavor to the graff scene of Los Angeles. Understanding its essence at an early age, for Asylm graffiti was not only an art form that was economically affordable, but in a sense, an introduction to art. Asylm’s work is generally quite beautiful, combining bright colors with flourishes of metallic and pearlescent silver and gold paint.
His graff and canvas work can often combine realistic depictions of nature such as humming birds or flowers along with wild style depiction of words and letters over an abstract background.
His spirituality trances in his work and depicts that nature and the urban landscape can coexists in harmony.
For more visit www.asylm.com
Os Gemeos
Os Gêmeos (Portuguese for The Twins) are graffiti artist identical twin brothers (born 1974) from São Paulo, Brazil, whose real names are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a main influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil's own style. Their work often features yellow-skinned characters, but is otherwise diverse and ranges from tags to complicated murals. Subjects range from family portraits to commentary on São Paulo's social and political circumstances, as well as Brazilian folklore. Their graffiti style was influenced by both traditional hip hop style and the Brazilian pixação movement. read more
For more visit www.lost.art.br/osgemeos
My Quotes
I know you are going to mention tons of artists that I missed, or that I should know. Through the process of witting this post I realize there are thousands of graffiti masters all over the world and little by little I want to give these artists a good spotlight here and show you the great works they done.
So pretty soon you will be meeting more and more graffiti masters.
Thank you,
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48 Comments
WOW, good stuff.. :)
I love it! They are so cool! More more ;p
Real good stuff... And 2 (actually 3) brazilian artist in the list =D... Great Post
I COME FROM DIGG
some really nice work, always been into the graffiti style
Hey, great post man!!
Love graffiti and u've picked great artists!
i just missed the old school gemeos graffiti, when they did use to write GEMEOS within all that great scenary and colors they still have today!!
Amazing post!!
cheers
Hey, great post man!!
Love graffiti and u've picked great artists!
i just missed the old school gemeos graffiti, when they did use to write GEMEOS within all that great scenary and colors they still have today!!
Amazing post!!
cheers
one of my favorite forms of art. nice work!
good=)
The stuff from the twins is so illustrative that you could almost not call it graffiti other than the fact it was being placed on walls as their canvas!
This is a very interesting post! This site is just expanding into various realms of art & design! Excellent!
As a LA native, I'm glad to see your mentions of some of our great graffiti artists.
I'm not a fan of all graffiti. I don't think it's cool to tag a building, etc. (without permission). And to spray over someone's painted mural is the height of asshatery. Nor is it cool to graffiti a billboard. Unless the ad is asking for it, like the billboards that just say "Live Larger." On those billboards, I say go nuts.
The wonderful thing about LA is the freeways and the LA river (as you mention) with the miles and miles of blank concrete. I think it should be LEGAL to graffiti those miles.
I found you because someone (I can't recall) ReTweeted you.
Amazing, but what about Banksy?
NVM, he is stencil. I love graffiti, a lot of my friends bomb all the time. It is a really special talent that produces amazing stuff.
(sorry for double post)
Amazing stuff thanks...Def getting a tweet from me!!
Awesome post! Badassery galore.
Very cool.
Eh uma cilada binHo.
Great stuff!
Well you forgot about DAIM http://www.daimgallery.com/ a great grafitti artists as well.
AND BANSKYYYYY ?????!!!!!
okay, os gemeos are really cool and asylm has good works...but i've seen much better graffiti on this world... for example daim and tasso from germany or revok...or toast who does the "pyrochimps", very good illustrator...
you have to google 'em, really amazing works...
Binho's friend http://www.marceloeco.org
Binho's friend http://www.marceloeco.org brazilian graffiti.
Nice. I love the graffiti style. Here is a little project I am slowly working on. If you like it leave me some feedback.
http://www.vimeo.com/3017454
have of the images on the page do not load
Wow, that is truly amazing!
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Great shots. Here are a couple more to take a look at. I shot these in San Francisco. Unfortunately, I don't know whose work it is, but nonetheless, it is impressive.
http://www.liveday1.com/photo/sf-family?context=latest
http://www.liveday1.com/photo/graff1ti-1?context=latest
I wish i had on 10th of some of that artistic ability. Oh well, back to touch typing practice.
Isn't it supposed to be "Graffiti" ?
Anyhow, nice article. :)
You're art is amazing. I love this type of street art. Keep up the great work.
Did you see this photo of Al Capone?
Al Capone
http://www.amerphotorestoration.com/alcapone.html
Obviously great stuff but i mean there are a lot of guys out there that have great works and complicated pieces like Saber or Rime but it was good. If you want to see some you should go to
http://www.knowngallery.com/ ,
http://saberone.com/ ,
or http://www.digitalretna.com/
check them out there awesome
Nice collection of works!
"digg"ed this page... nice works
i hate this shit, people should be put in jail unless the owbner of the structure specifically asked for it to be done. in that casethe artist should get paid for the work.
I think most of these are quite amazing!
http://bSaves.com
Os Gemeos? Are you kidding me? That south American crap looks like the wack shit from the 70's in America. This is just some politically correct token-retard choice. If you think Os Gemeos is one of the best you have no fucking clue what you're talking about. Look at How, Nosm, Neck, Loomit, and Can2. That's origional style, not some cave-man deer stick figure shit from Brazil.
Let's Digg it!!! Great Post. thanks
You should check out the GL crew
Chez
Natrl
Rome
Ryno
Tyboe.
SF we kill things.
I agree with Tachyon.
Where's Banksy??
Amazing, but not having Bansky is a little ridiculous.
OS Gemeos is amazing, and the rest of the of these guys are good, but not masters. The author of this article does not seem very involved in the culture, or just has poor taste. Do your homework chump.
I love how everyone has a different style. Graffiti looked all the same to me until now.
this is proof that people that dont do it graff dont understand it - even designers. graff is about letter forms not silly backgrounds and colorful characters, graffiti in itself does not mean anything done on public space or with spraypaint, thats just the medium. jus droppin knowledge. peace.
nice to see some love for greg "craola" simkins. he is one of my dearest friends and have the pleasure of owning a few original pieces from him as well as being able to call him a great friend.
gemeos is just killing it . banksy isn't a graffiti artist,,,he's a stencil master.. he's not freehanding anything. so it's hard to compare!
Banksys is a little overrated, there are other artists that I think could benefit from the exposure.
Amazing art work. I really liked Binho's fish.
Some really great photos representing creative abilities. Where I live in Canada, we are seeing more and more of this kind of art being displayed on the sides of old buildings. Spruces things up quite nicely.
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