Here’s the graffiti effect!

Funny contextual street art

The body painting in graffiti. Here’s some pictures of body-painting on girls. Graffiti on girls, I’m sure you’ll love it. Let’s get naked…

From the fabulous site of bodypainting Shriiimp

Great graffiti on this girl. Pure colors!

Beautiful artwork on body by Monk.EK. Is Bodypainting better than tattoo?

I don’t know what’s beautiful here…

Bodypainting by Ensoe

Zion’s body painting on girl

And from the motherfucking FatCap Europe

The cans festival is over, here’s a video of this crazy stencil meeting :

Es ORO Polymedia Projects will present a showing of works by contemporary painter and legendary graffiti writer Rich “Bama” Admiral on Friday, May 16th, 2008.

The show will include never before seen paintings by the self –proclaimed “Nightcrawler”. Bama pioneered as a graffiti writer in the Bronx, he began selling his work in New York galleries in 1973.

The exhibit will run for one month, with an artist talk reception on May 25 th, 2008. This is the third installment of a series of shows by es ORO. The space has already been dubbed the hottest young gallery in the area. es ORO will have works by Bama and other artists available on the website during and after the show dates.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 16th 7:00PM to 10:00PM EST

Afternoon Reception w/Artist Talk Sunday, May 25th 3:00PM to 5:00 PM EST

Closing Reception Saturday, June 14th 7:00PM to 10:00PM EST

Artist Statement by Rich “BAMA” Admiral
From my beginnings as a graffiti artist in the early 70’s, I’ve been on a quest to find my true inner voice; to try and get beyond the label of just being a “street artist”. Yes I am the second person to sell a painting as a graffiti artist, (Razor Gallery - 1973). This boxed me into the graffiti art movement, but I was always searching for a more unique take on aerosol art. I never turned my back on my graffiti past, but I always wanted to do more than paint my name or please the gallery heads. To express myself from my heart and mind (I am so I paint). It is what I live for. I love to paint, I need to paint and I love to be different. With luck people will like the Bama I’ve become.

Gallery Statement by Eto Oro, Director es ORO Polymedia
Rich “BAMA” Admiral is a Bronx based contemporary expressionist painter and graffiti pioneer. He began “writing” in the New York subway system in the early 1970’s. He then moved on to showing his work in the gallery system. Since then his work has been exhibited around the United States, Switzerland and Holland. In his self-titled solo installation Bama presents a small series of tonal paintings that resemble softened abstractions of Swiss surrealist H. R. Giger’s work. Bama’s show will also include a video installation and live DJ set by the artist.

www.esorogallery.com

Another wall animation by blue… Crazy stuff, enjoy it!

It was done in Buenos Aires and Baden. Several months of work. Extraordinary street art production!

Mr Chat is one of these street artists that became famous thanks to one character. In this case it’s a yellow cat smiling and runing on the cities walls. This cat is world famous! It’s a star!

After having troubles with justice (there was a public display in his town against his trial) Mr Chat is now doing shows and exhibitions. The big Cat in the second picture was created in front of the Pompidou Center in Paris during his exhibition in this famous contemporary art center. Mr Chat is always doing street art all over the world.

Official Mr chat site

A French site helps you to find Mr chat’s creations

Today you’ll meet a young Female graffiti artist : Toofly From NYC. Enjoy her artwork!

Toofly is a major actor in the graffiti and Hip Hop community in New York City. This young woman, from Queens, started to draw and paint in the streets in the beginning of the 90’s, when she was about 15 years old. At the time, this movement was still rebellious and marginalized and not many women were involved in it.
Her artwork is influenced by the calligraphy and illustrations of some artists she admires (Clark, Ench, Bis, Skuf and many others), but she also developed her own style and characters and is now acknowledged as an equal by these same artists.
In the Spring 2007, Toofly launched a fashion and accessories collection, under the signature of TOOFLY NYC, that can be found in a variety of stores all over the US and in countries such as UK and Japan, in limited quantities, though.
She also organizes, through Younity, a female urban arts collective that she created with her partner Alice Mizrachi, many exhibitions, art programs, book publishing, for young women artists, to promote street arts among the public. She also tries to encourage women’s participation to these events and helps them position themselves in the mainly masculine world of Graffiti.
Her art and designs can be admired in numerous books, videos, magazines like Graffiti Women, MTV Tr3, Trace, Juxtapoz, and on her website. She is currently working on many projects, including a billboard for an American brand in association with other artists and canvases for the Sweet City Woman exhibition at Fuse Gallery in May.

Text by Yafa for the Fatcap Team

Toofly official site

Photo by Genxcel

One of our favorite street artist : C215. Marvelous stencils, expressive faces… pure street artist!

Here’s a video of his artwork in London.

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

-Do you want more brand new french subway graffiti?

-HELL YEAH!

- Ok, ok, let’s go with French subway graffiti part 2. Live from Paris! All these graffiti were done 6 month ago. It’s fresh flavor…

Artists : Azar, Stereo, Efas, Stik and Ayaz?, Lekso, Maes.

Stereo

Efas and Lisk on the subway number 3 in Paris

Graffiti upon subway byLekso

Graffiti by Maes in the subway station :

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