Street-Art

Optical illusions in Street Art

Optical illusions artworks are surprising, they catch your eye at the corner of a street, and you may need a few seconds to understand the trick! Discover 8 street artists doing trompe-l'oeil artworks !

13/08/2015

Top 8 Street Art Sculptors

Street art is traditionally practiced on flat surfaces and walls, but today the new urban scene is increasingly using sculpture to create more interactive and immersive artworks!

14/07/2015

10 things to know about Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey captures the very essence of what it means to be a street artist, by using his voice to insight change in the world around us...

09/06/2015

Contemporary Art in Marseille: 10 Things to Do

Contemporary art in Marseille is a culture you will want to discover. Marseille, the oldest city in France, is now a cultural gem that is often overlooked. We must not confuse the city that is seen at the 20h TF1, accompanied by anxiety-producing music, and one that engages our eyes with peaceful, warm and undeniable charms. The Capital of Culture…

20/08/2014

Five Contemporary Artists To Follow On Twitter

It might seem like artists would be too busy at their canvasses to also balance a strong online presence. Recent years have proven that this is not at all the case. It is now unusual to find a contemporary artist who doesn't share their work and express themself through social media. As a result, even if you don't have the…

29/01/2014

Analysing a great masterpiece of contemporary art: EROICA, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Today, Artsper analyses with you a great and daring piece of contemporary art, Eroica, a series by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Eroica I, 1988 - 1988, ©Jean-Michel Basquiat After the death of his friend, Andy Warhol, Basquiat, at the top of her career at the time, became haunted by the thought of his own death. Something like a bad premonition. Eroica, repeated…

20/08/2013

10 Street Artists You Should Know

Humourous, captivating, disturbing and heavily engaged urban frescoes adorn the walls of cities worldwide. However, with street art's increasing presence in galleries, many believe that the street-art is “domesticating” itself, and is losing its urban identity. Artsper takes to the streets to find the 10 street artists you simply must know.

07/07/2013

A Short Guide to Bad Painting

If you have never heard about the “Bad Painting”, you are certainly familiar with some of its famous representative people’s works. The name of Jean-Michel Basquiat must indeed be familiar to you, especially since the retrospective that the musée d’art moderne de Paris gave him during Spring 2011. Kenny Scharf - Palm Springs Vacation - 1978 What are the characteristics…

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