Classic shit.

Old school graffiti on subways will always stay fresh and amazing. Here’s the basics of our graffiti culture, graffiti art.

For the newbies here’s The Reference

Here’s some stencils by Dude The Compagny. We don’t know anything about this project exept the fact that these stencils are dope!

Here’s the site of Dude the compagny

Canvas ’s not , and will never be the original graffiti support… The real graffiti is vandalism, is on train, walls and its purest form is the tag an nothing else.

It’s a scream, a dirty finger in your ass, we don’t need autorisation to tell you that we’re living, the street belong to us. We’re the king.

But.. but… graffiti became a new form of art, a beautiful an amazing art. If people can’t recognize it now, in 2050 they will suck our dead dicks and put our illegal walls in museum. So let’s appreciate graffiti on canvas, the official support of the “classic” art that took place in the heart of humans before the birth of graffiti.

Pictures were taken in a French exposure in Chatillon. Artists : Dan23, Mask, Simer, Sly2 and Violon. Photographer : Slace for Fatcap.

Beautiful Pete Rock’s portrait by Dan23

Ador is a graffiti artist specialised in Graffiti characters. Here’s a text that he wrote for Fatcap to explain his vision of art! After the text you will see his artwork, particularly the first picture : It’s a wall in his town, and every week he changed the item in the hand of his character… great concept! Enjoy the talent, Ador from Nantes.

“Drawing has constantly been of great significance to me. Pleasure has always been the most important thing, and all the interest of painting on walls lays in exchanging and sharing, all in a good mood, to make big common drawings. Big drawings made alone are also very pleasant. It’s not about hip hop so much, it aims not to take anything seriously, and it remains somehow subjective, but it takes a lot of hard work. Spray paint is usually exclusively intended for walls, and in parallel, people tend to improce it more and more on canvas. The link between those two kinds of production does not really exist yet, but might, later on. The important thing is to make a picture (an expressive image) that can tell about our surroundings, our environment, the places we live in, or about what we know, without being too chatty , while remaining open to various interpretations.”

More graffiti by Ador

Graffiti characters for your eyes pleasure. Don’t believe the hype, that’s a true graffiti discipline. Creating graffiti characters has always been a tradition in graffiti history… Recognize that graffiti characters are so so so fresh!!

Photographer : Lois

Artist and Photographer G8

Photographer: Seetwist

Artists: Bio and Niger

Artist : Wise

Hey party people! Here’s an amazing artist: Dan23. He wrote for the fatcap worldwide graffiti blog a little text to explain his art. Here we go!

My approach follows basically 2 paths. The first is to bring to light people who are fighting for a fairer world, more equitable, and more beautiful. There are important political figures such as Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Malcolm X …, many artists related to music (James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott-Heron…) because it is a medium that allows you to quickly understand the emotion and artists whose approach I find generous (C215, Titi Freak…), and many other people that I meet.

It seems important to me to point out that, in a difficult and often unfair world, many generous people still remain. I therefore try, to my degree, to be a link, to give emphasis to their struggles and the beauty of their efforts.

My second priority is to try to work on a maximum of different mediums, so my work can benefit a maximum of people. Being self-taught, I began to draw illustrations for magazines, associations, music labels and 2 years ago, I opened my gallery in Strasbourg, which gave me the opportunity to organize exhibitions and meet with artists. From this moment, a sequence was launched: I started to produce a lot, perform exhibitions, and my bulimia pushed me to execute live performances during concerts. I have realized, step by step, that art makes you see the world from a different angle than the one offered by the media, and this thinking pushed me recently to put my creations in the streets and I expect to place as much as possible out there because I believe that art can change our relationship to others, it can gather men to learn how to live better together.

Translation By Yafa

Coming soon, for the true metro graffiti lover 84 minutes of pure metro graffiti action. Featuring actions from 20 different systems, including such places as Baltimore, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Yerevan, Paris, Milan and the list goes on!

Keep an eye on metrosexual’s myspace dvd for updates!Metrosexual DVD Trailer

The idea is simple and original:

Take the vibrant and often transient art form of Brazilian graffiti out of its predominantly urban context and apply it to the ancient and permanent walls of an historic rural castle in Scotland.

The Graffiti Project

Yo people, here’s an interview of an Iranian graffiti artist named A1one for the Fatcap Worlwide blog.

Graffiti from Tehran! Enjoy the talent!

Who is A1one?
I ‘m born and living in Tehran / iran / middle east. I started my work from 2003 with stencil and then painting some simple eyes around the neighbourhood just to express my self, move general public mind and fulfil my energy to do crime. When I searched in internet about wall paintings, murals, sprays, I discovered graffiti and street art. I loved the concrete energy of this culture which help me continuously to find what I am. So I dedicated my energy in art-crime. I paint outdoor about twice a week but I do indoors to practice in my studio every day. Nowadays I got to main goals: the first one is to achieve my own style in stencilling and prints, and the second is establishing Arabic letter Graffiti styling. This last one is also one of my personal honors to make many versions of general graffiti and tagging fonts for Arabic letters.

How is the graffiti scene in your country?
In Tehran Graffiti is both emerging and also not born yet. Tehran is really a big and developed town in our country but the number of writers is so low. For a city of 16 million of citizens we have about 30 writers. To be true, none of these writers are yet professional because all of them are between 16 to 22 years old and they are working their style from 3 years to 2 years ago. Most of them aren’t really doing daily or weekly art on streets. They do one work in a month or season. So we can say that graffiti is emerging in our country and particularly in Tehran. I worked from 2003 and focused on graffiti from that time and I’m glad to be respected by 90% of these mates. I meet graffiti artists in my exhibitions and we share tips and tricks. In the first years, I had some problems with 2 new comers who started to disrespect me by tagging on my works buffing it, changing my tags. But now it’s ok, they show respect.

How is the graffiti repression in Iran. Is it hard ?
No laws yet. May be dangerous if they feel this may be political. It can be so easy to say “sorry I didn’t know it was a crime !”. Of course if you want to go really big and be known by every one it can be more dangerous.

Can you explain your name?
I was alone in whole city when started, felt alone. I invited others while I was the the first: A the only 1 huh? In arabic and english language mix you can read it like : Al-one. Read it alvan : “alvan” means Colorful in arabic language.

Iranian graffiti links:

Graffiti from Iran
A1one graffiti artist
A1one personal blog