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Dark and Expressive Artworks by Anthony Lister

marcos333 — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:17:42 +0000

Anthony Lister is , on his own words, an inventor painter. Nowadays I would dare to say he's more than that, as besides all experiments he already found a quite interesting and expressive style. As he said in one of his interviews, he works for the process not for the result.

You can see some more of lister at his Website.

About the author

My name is Marcos Torres, I'm Graphic Artist from Porto Alegre, Brasil. You can get to know more about me by acessing my Personal Website or by following me on Twitter: @marcos333. You can also see some of my last projects at my Flickr.

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The Visceral Art of David Choe

marcos333 — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:56:59 +0000

Most of you may know David Choe for being the artist behind the Facebook HQ but I gotta say this guy is way more than that. It's hard to label a guy like him, it's sort of vandal, artist, criminal and genius, I think that what best describes him is his documentary that you should totally see.

I am only featuring a glimpse of Choe's artwork here as it's way bigger than you can imagine, anyway you can check out more his awesome stuff like on his Website

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The Unique Graffiti of Shok 1

marcos333 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:26:38 +0000

Shok 1 is a veteran of british graffiti art having on the early years been one of the most active adn skillful writers of the country. Year after, Shok 1 still trying to reinvent spray art with his last experiments towards transparencies that reminds x-rays.

You can see more of Shok 1 at his Flick Gallery

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"Just like us" art show by Mike Mitchell

marcos333 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:31:32 +0000

Mike Mitchell have recently done a art show with the theme "just like us", as you can see the show featured several famous characters on some very common situations. It's not only funny, but at same time something to think about, as we always tend to create idols and heroes and forget about their humanity.

You can see more awesome works by Mike Mitchell at his Website and at his Blog

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Gore and Visceral Artworks by Nychos

marcos333 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:00:14 +0000

Nychos is one of these all time recognizable artists, even when he's not doing some gore illustration or wall painting, his technique just got so much particular that you will know instantly know who's the author. Bunnies, splatter, gore scenes and black humor are some recurring themes on his highly detailed pieces.

You should check more of Nychos work, it's definitely worth it, so just check his Website.

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Design & Illustrations by Mike Lemanski

paul0v2 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:02:42 +0000

Mike Lemanski is a freelance illustrator/designer from UK. His work encompasses a number of areas within the field of design and art and is a visual collection of creativity across a wide spectrum, with strong illustration and typography skills. Enjoy!

Mike has worked with the big brands such as google, IBM, Coca-Cola, BBC and the list goes on, his work is trully amazing and if you like to find out more about his work go to mikelemanski.co.uk or follow him at twitter @mikelemanski

About the author

Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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The Incredible Universe of Phlegm

marcos333 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:28 +0000

Years ago, when I was starting out with illustration and stuff, most experienced artists told me that I should not worry about find a aesthetic and theme, that would simply come with time. Well, when it comes to street art a lot of artist mostly can get random about themes and change their aesthetic often. So I must say Phlegm really knows how to stick with what he do, creating a impressive universe not only on the wall, but also on his comics.

For more information and pictures, please acess his Blog.

Phlegm from Andy Skillen on Vimeo.

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Interview with Dabs and Myla

marcos333 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:08:08 +0000

Today I'm going to introduce to you guys this adorable australian couple of graffiti writers, please welcome Dabs and Myla. These fellas have been doing some extremely funky and interesting artworks both on the streets and on galleries. So it's really nice to have a the opportunity to understand more about their story and other topics.

If you want to know more about this adorable couple, please visit their Website or their Blog.

1) In the name of the Abduzeedo team, I would like to thank you guys for your time and kindness to answer this interview. Let's start by asking you, when you start getting interest by Graffiti and Illustration?

DABS: We actually both started at different points, I had been writing graffiti for about 10 years before we met. We met and fell in love at Art School, and started working together. I taught MYLA how to use spray paint when we met, and the basics of style writing. She took it from there and developed her own skill set and style very quickly! We have both always been interested in illustration and painting though! Even before we studied together we had a similar interest in style and technique.

2) Tell us more about your influences and guys who inspired you.

MYLA: I think that we gain the majority of our inspiration from each other. We are really lucky to be able to share our lives and our artwork together, and we are constantly influencing each other and bouncing ideas and new theories back and forth. Outside of that though, I think we get a lot of inspiration from our friends and crew members. That's whats great about being in a crew, working with your friends on a large scale and constantly learning from each other.

3) I find your artworks and graffs really amazing, they're so colorful and happy. So, when you developed this aesthetic and how could you describe it.

DABS:Our style is something that has slowly developed bit by bit over the past 7 years. I think it comes from our early influences in illustration and old animation, as well as being a reflection of our attitude and day to day steez! We are really happy people! We love our life and enjoy pretty much every second of it...so I think our artwork and characters has a positive vibe on it just based on the people its coming from.

4) Nowadays, do you think that it's possible to make a living doing Graffiti and Street Art?

DABS: Of course!!...If your willing to work your ass off for it and have confidence in your own abilities.

5) How's you daily workflow?

MYLA: Hectic!!...We always seem to have more to do than we can fit into one day!!..But we love it that way! We love what we do, and love to work hard at it. We spend pretty much 7 days a week from 7am till 11pm working in the studio on our paintings. The only times we really leave is to go outside and paint a wall. We are lucky that we both enjoy the same things and have a similar work ethic which allows us to work like crazy like this!!

6) What's you favorite piece at the moment?

MYLA: I think at the moment our favorite piece is a painting that we just made for a show in Miami during Art Basel titled 'You are the light'. It's a bigger scale painting for us, and we are really happy with how it came out.

7) What are your future projects for 2012?

DABS:We have a lot of interesting things ahead in 2012. Like most years we will spend the majority of the year working on paintings for shows, but we are planning to take more time to paint more large scale murals this year, and will be traveling a bit too. We also will be curating a show at Thinkspace Gallery in L.A which i think will be pretty epic!!

8) Tell us five lessons you've learned till now on being a successful Graphic Artist.

*WORK HARDER AND LONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU COULD EVER POSSIBLY WORK.

*ALWAYS KEEP PUSHING YOURSELF AND YOUR STYLE.

*MAKE THINGS THE WAY YOU WANT THEM TO LOOK, DONT BE TOO INFLUENCED BY
TRENDS OR WHATS GOING ON AROUND YOU. DO IT FOR YOURSELF.

*DONT BE A DICK TO PEOPLE!!

*THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT...ALWAYS!!!

9) Tell us five site you love.

JERSEYJOEART.COM

SDMCREW.COM

THEWORLDSBESTEVER.COM

JUXTAPOZ.COM

SOURHARVEST.COM

10) Thanks for your time Dabs and Myla, please leave a final message to everyone how's starting at the creative field.

DABS:Its just art...don't kill your self over it!! Enjoy it and have fun!

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Galactic Paintings by Duda Lanna

marcos333 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:37:56 +0000

I really love when I have the opportunity to meet some artists I love personally, this was the case of Duda Lanna. Duda it's a designer and fine artist based in Abduzeedo hometown, Porto Alegre, Brasil. His paintings are a mix of tribal and ancient cultures symbology, retro futurism and optical art with tons of psychedelic colors.

If you want to know more about Duda and his paintings, please access his Website.

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Create a Skateboard Illustration with Mixed Medias

marcos333 — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:02:14 +0000

As most kids born in the 90s I was very influenced by skateboarding and was a "skater" myself. I always loved skateboard art and I remember going with my friends to skate shops to see the shapes from brands like Santa Cruz, Flip, Powell Peralta and others. I must admit that this art had a huge influence on my work and here's just a little tutorial in tribute to that.

If you're not really into skateboard art, I would suggest you to take a look at Jim Phillips artworks, he's like the father of skateboard art. Besides Jim, you should also check guy like Billy Argel, Gunsho, Pablo Etchepare and Diego Medina, whose work is intricately linked with the skateboard culture.

Ok, enough talking, so what are we going to do today? Quite simple: A "Cool" in melting green-ish letters, old school style.

Warm ups

Let's begin with some warm ups, as you may already know, pointilism can be really tiresome and messy, so let's make some simple exercises. Make a circle, a triangle and a square, start filling it with dots doing the following movements: circular for the ellipse, triangular for the triangle and side to side for square. That way you will be warming up your wrist and also testing your dot control, try it at least two to three times If you never tried this technique before. Do it slowly and don't put too much pressure or you may get your wrist injured because of the repetition. This technique will be used on the following in order to give some depth on the letters.

You probably already know hard gradients are, nowadays they are mostly used on vector art and t-shirt art, as some printing methods require few colors. If you've never used before, try this simple exercise: make a three color gradation, like the blue one I did, then try drawing some forms with the darker color, make a reflex with the medium color and a little reflex with the brighter. As you can see, from a certain distance your eye will assimilate a gradient. Try as many forms as you want, then make patterns to see the effect they have on the illustrations. This technique will help later on giving depth to the letters.

Line work

I wanted a traditional melting effect, with drops and everything on the type formation. I haven't done sketch with graphite, but I would suggest you to try it before using a technical drawing pen. A good way to make sure the type will be legible is to draw it first with graphite as a bubble form and then make the drops inside of it. Notice that you should vary the size of the drops or it will look flat and boring...just saying.

Stroke

Varying the size of the stroke is a very important technique in skateboard art. Perhaps this is a characteristic inherited from comic books and from the early works that were mostly done using brush not pencils so the variance was quite normal thing. Anyway, after I did the line work, I started tracing the paths inside each bubble to make a heavier stroke on the middle and thinner on the extremities.

Stroke Fill

Yep, here's the tiresome part: after tracing the stroke you should fill it with black ink.

Dot shading

Ok, I hope you remember the previous exercises because we're going to apply it here. In order to make the dot shading correctly, first make circles around the bubbles and fill them using a circular movement, just as we practiced before.

This will take some good amount of time, but the result is quite neat.

Final Result

Now I have all the three letters to write "Cool". When it comes to digitizing images, most people rather use scanners, but as in this case it was only a BW artwork, I though it would be quicker and easier to just photograph them using a professional camera. But, anyway please fell free to use the method you want to.

Cleaning

Having the images on the computer the first thing I've done was to open them on photoshop and adjust their levels in order to clean the white and get a heavier black. Then, just simply cut the letter using the lasso tool (L), the pen tool (P) or using masks, the method you feel more secure.

Make a new layer with only the type selection (ctrl + J / command + J), then make a white background on layer bellow.

Adding hard gradients

It's time to apply the hard gradients, first I filled the whole letter with dark green.

As a rule, the flat parts without and with less dots were filled with bright green, notice that it gave a border effect on the bubbles.

And also filled inside of them a bit, as you can see they start to pop and give depth.

Following my previous instructions on hard gradient, I added white inside of the bright green on each bubble.

I must say doing this is less tiresome than the dot filling and the final result with a black background got really slick.

Mockup

As it was about skateboard art we cannot forget to make a mockup of the final illustration, so I found this really cool mockup at Freebie Pixels. You can download the PSD and replace it with the final result. Hope you guys learned something from this and had fun, see ya.

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The Polygonal Nature of Laura Bifano

marcos333 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:11:35 +0000

Everybody is quite used with classic nature paintings, but what happens when we try to remix this? Well, I guess Laura Bifano recent paintings are the answer, mixing some classic elements with some modern polygonal artwork that really reminds us video games.

If you want to know more about Laura, please access her Website.

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Introducing The Bronken Fingaz Crew

marcos333 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:25:11 +0000

It's hard to describe the art from the israeli crew, it's a sort of mix of Retro Comic Book, Hardcore/Punk Rock Drawings and Psychedelic Paintings. Anyway, that actually doesn't matter, because they can bring some really stunning results, I just got addicted on their style.

If you want to know more about this crew, please access their Website.

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Performatic Art by Suso33

marcos333 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:58:09 +0000

Nowadays in order to be a sucessful artist you can't just be a master at one craft, but on many as possible and try always to mix them on really unique way. I found the work of Suso33 at some Graffiti related website, but for my surprise this artist it's not just regular graffiti writer. I would dare to say he's actually a "visual performance artist" as most of his artwork got a loads of expression and movement, just take a look at the videos and images bellow and you will get it.

You can get more information and flicks of Suso33 at his Website.

SUSO33, an artist based in Madrid, Spain is a precursor of iconographic graffiti and experimentateur with language in that discipline, as well as a pioneer of Post-Graffiti, Street-Art and Urban Art. He is the most established artist of live painting in Spain. Currently developing a project called “Pintura Escénica en Acción” ("Painting Scene in Action"), he uses multiple art forms to convey global conceptual aspects of communication via performance (art, speech, audio and visual images - painting) to create a live 'performance painting'. Being a pioneer of these various art forms has led to highlighted performer for the Spanish 'La Noche en Blanco' in Europe as well as Director for: opening of Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, LABoral Centro de Arte and Festival de las Artes, etc. (Suso33 Website)

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Enigmatic Street Art by Escif

marcos333 — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:02:54 +0000

I know I have been a lot into street art and graffiti lately but suddenly I started to think about what are and should be their proposals. As art on a general meaning, this other media should serve as a support to express ideas and feelings, not just shapes and colors. I've been watching the work of this Spanish artist called Escif and I noticed that he got into a really conceptual and minimalistic aesthetic but still quite impressing and shocking sometimes. He's a great proof that a great concept can enhance any artwork.

You can see more murals by Escif at his Flickr

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Interview with Alexandre Farto (aka. Vhils)

marcos333 — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:29:19 +0000

Today we have the pleasure to show you a fresh interview with one of the big names in the urban art scene of the world, his name's Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. Alexandre is recognized by his "destructive" creations and in this interview he speaks about his background, techniques, style and other interesting subjects, check it out.

For more information about Alexandre visit his Website.

1) First of all I would like to thank you for doing this interview, it's an honor for us to present more about you to our readers. I would like to start asking you about when your interest for art, graffiti and urban art began.

I believe that my interest about the expressionist world began with everything I saw in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal while I grew up: a contrast among the decay of the political murals painted around the 70's and 80's, after the 1974 Revolution, and the overlap of the capitalist publicity and its colors and shapes, getting around in full speed by the end of the 80's. I started to do some graffiti when I was 10 years old and started to take it more seriously when I was 13. It was the graffiti that got my interest for art and everything surrounding it. It was the graffiti that made me study art in school, and everything I got to know after it in terms of world arts, contemporary or classic, everything began with my interest in graffiti.

2) Which artists do you use for reference?

When I started I really admired artists related to Lisbon's hardcore graffiti, some of them became friends, and I also admired artists from around the world that I got to see on magazines, movies, etc. Crews from Lisbon as GVS R1 3D 2S LEG 1003PV were big references, as the EWC from Poland, SDK from France and many others. After a while I discovered the work of Banksy, which inspired me to take a new direction, not in terms of style but in terms of concept and what to explore in urban art. Nowadays I admire the work of many people, including Gordon Matta-Clark, Katherina Grosse, JR, Conor Harrington, Word 2 Mother, NeckFace, Faile, Blu, Gaia, Barry McGee, Os Gêmeos and more.

3) People recognize you for starting a destructive urban art movement, something new and fresh that nobody tried before. How did you develop this style and how would you describe it?

The development of this line of work has essentially two bases: one is graffiti in its most destructive side, which I have been connected to for many years; the second is the stencil technique that I discovered while I was looking for new paths that allowed me to express a new way of communication. From the first one I picked up the concept of destruction as creative strength - based on this idea I developed a way of work that uses the removal, decomposition or destruction. The concept is the idea that we are made by a series of influences that shape us throughout historical layers, etc, that come from the environment where we grew up. In a very symbolic way I believe that if we remove some of these layers, showing other ones, we can bring to surface some of the stuff we left behind, forgotten things that are still part of what we are today.

Technology is changing things so quickly that we don't have enough time to think about what is changing (new layers), what is affecting us. I try to underline this process in general, my work can be seen as a kind of archeology that tries to understand what is hidden behind things. These ideas found expression when I started to experiment with the stencil technique and understood that I could revert the process to have more impact: instead of creating while adding layers, I explored the idea of creating by removing layers. I experimented with this process using several methods - cutting clusters of posters, corroding silkscreen ink with acid, etc. - and naturally things started to gain a brutal and raw shape.

When I passed the idea to walls it was natural to work with this removal concept, this negative field. The process itself can be brutal and violent, but the result in my opinion, is expressive and poetic. The result was visibly interesting and allowed to start to incorporate the wall as one of the physical components to the intervention, unlike what happened to the painting, where the wall was a base. From there, the usage of explosives was another step that evolved after a lot of research and tests. These testing stages are something really nice to do, it's actually a pleasure, and it usually results as a main part of my work.

4) Today there is a big discussion about the legitimacy of urban art and graffiti, what are the limits that an artist must put on his work and what exactly would be the public space. What is your opinion about this issues?

As a citizen I understand that this is a complex issue that can't be seen as 'light' or black and white, yes or no - there are a lot of factors involved in this. In a more personal approach, in the other hand, I understand that we shouldn't have limits in art, nor to the space where we apply it. No rules should be applied to art.

5) What do you think about the recent transition of several urban artists into fine arts and galleries? Is urban art still urban art inside a museum?

Yes, if the art is honest with its essence and if you take the space "to be what it is" and not be domesticated, which is a natural tendency in closed spaces because art in closed spaces is, essentially, marketable art. The museums may be exceptions to this because they disclose art, but not galleries, which usually are interested in selling art.

There is naturally a big difference between things produced freely on the streets and things produced to be showcased in a closed space, but I believe they are not opposites or exclude one another. For those interested in expressing their work both spaces are interesting, we just need to look at the productions inside their context. Street art is in a public space - what is produced for a gallery or museum is essentially a new version of a work, in a new context. What each artist makes with his work is something very particular.

6) How do you describe your daily routine?

Actually it's a bit complicated because I never know what will happen... It depends on where I am, and lately I'm always doing something in different places, so things vary a lot. In general I work everyday, in my house, studio or even at the airport - when I'm traveling. I don't have a pre-defined space for work and pleasure, everything happens naturally. My life involves a lot of production, research and a lot of work, which I really like, so I don't separate that. It's pretty normal for me to be involved in several projects at the same time, and it's usually in different countries. I have a base in Lisbon and another in London, it's interesting to always be on the move but sometimes it's hard to manage everything - sometimes I really need to stop everything and take some days off.

7) Which is your favorite piece so far?

I'm not sure, I usually like my latest work the most.

8) Tell us five lessons you believe are really important

1- There are no rules

2- There are no small materials

3- Persistence is key

4- In error we find creation

5-Go with the flow

9) Tell us sites that you like to visit

woostercollective.com

unurth.com

notcot.com

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Dark and Expressive Artworks by Anthony Lister

Anthony Lister is , on his own words, an inventor painter. Nowadays I would dare to say he's more than that, as besides all experiments he already found a quite interesting and expressive style. As he said in one of his interviews, he works for the process not for the result.

About the author

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The Visceral Art of David Choe

Most of you may know David Choe for being the artist behind the Facebook HQ but I gotta say this guy is way more than that. It's hard to label a guy like him, it's sort of vandal, artist, criminal and genius, I think that what best describes him is his documentary that you should totally see.

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The Unique Graffiti of Shok 1

Shok 1 is a veteran of british graffiti art having on the early years been one of the most active adn skillful writers of the country. Year after, Shok 1 still trying to reinvent spray art with his last experiments towards transparencies that reminds x-rays.

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"Just like us" art show by Mike Mitchell

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Gore and Visceral Artworks by Nychos

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Design & Illustrations by Mike Lemanski

Mike Lemanski is a freelance illustrator/designer from UK. His work encompasses a number of areas within the field of design and art and is a visual collection of creativity across a wide spectrum, with strong illustration and typography skills. Enjoy!

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The Incredible Universe of Phlegm

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Interview with Dabs and Myla

1) In the name of the Abduzeedo team, I would like to thank you guys for your time and kindness to answer this interview. Let's start by asking you, when you start getting interest by Graffiti and Illustration?

2) Tell us more about your influences and guys who inspired you.

3) I find your artworks and graffs really amazing, they're so colorful and happy. So, when you developed this aesthetic and how could you describe it.

4) Nowadays, do you think that it's possible to make a living doing Graffiti and Street Art?

5) How's you daily workflow?

6) What's you favorite piece at the moment?

7) What are your future projects for 2012?

8) Tell us five lessons you've learned till now on being a successful Graphic Artist.

9) Tell us five site you love.

10) Thanks for your time Dabs and Myla, please leave a final message to everyone how's starting at the creative field.

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Galactic Paintings by Duda Lanna

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Create a Skateboard Illustration with Mixed Medias

Warm ups

Line work

Stroke

Stroke Fill

Dot shading

Final Result

Cleaning

Adding hard gradients

Mockup

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The Polygonal Nature of Laura Bifano

Everybody is quite used with classic nature paintings, but what happens when we try to remix this? Well, I guess Laura Bifano recent paintings are the answer, mixing some classic elements with some modern polygonal artwork that really reminds us video games.

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Introducing The Bronken Fingaz Crew

It's hard to describe the art from the israeli crew, it's a sort of mix of Retro Comic Book, Hardcore/Punk Rock Drawings and Psychedelic Paintings. Anyway, that actually doesn't matter, because they can bring some really stunning results, I just got addicted on their style.

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Performatic Art by Suso33

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Enigmatic Street Art by Escif

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Interview with Alexandre Farto (aka. Vhils)

1) First of all I would like to thank you for doing this interview, it's an honor for us to present more about you to our readers. I would like to start asking you about when your interest for art, graffiti and urban art began.

2) Which artists do you use for reference?

3) People recognize you for starting a destructive urban art movement, something new and fresh that nobody tried before. How did you develop this style and how would you describe it?

4) Today there is a big discussion about the legitimacy of urban art and graffiti, what are the limits that an artist must put on his work and what exactly would be the public space. What is your opinion about this issues?

5) What do you think about the recent transition of several urban artists into fine arts and galleries? Is urban art still urban art inside a museum?

6) How do you describe your daily routine?

7) Which is your favorite piece so far?

8) Tell us five lessons you believe are really important

9) Tell us sites that you like to visit

10) We would like to thank you again for your time and kindness, have a nice day Alexandre.

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