Urban art is at the heart of WebUrbanist – the drawings, images, photos and sculptures that inspire us in part because they are open to the public. From installation artworks to street graffiti and everything in between, here is our extensive collection of urban street art gathered from around the world and representing both traditional techniques and innovative approaches by old and new street artists alike.
Optical illusion art brings a bit of magic to the streets, using paint, paste-ups or photographic tiles to transform urban surfaces into massive sinkholes, bizarre portals and mysterious doors ...
Integrating the shadows cast by everything from stop signs to public benches into street art often requires the luck of seeing the piece in action at just the right time of day, when the shadow ...
Designed to help citizens of Wroclaw, Poland, reclaim neglected parts of their city this site-specific "microinstallation" provides comfortable urban furniture for an otherwise hard-to-occupy ...
Known for his work on large-scale art projects, including the world's biggest interior art installation, artist's latest piece features over 1,000,000 square feet (100,000 square meters) of ...
Modern-day children move through a decidedly un-fairytale-like world with unlikely gangs of friendly wild animals to protect them in this series of paintings so realistic, it takes a moment to ...
Used by architects and engineers, Autocad and other computer-aided design (CAD) programs have a long history as boring and blunt instruments of drafting, but this architectural illustrator has ...
Vital yet dangerous, shifting its shape and obscuring what lies beneath, water is an ideal conduit for illusion, and artists take advantage of these qualities to produce works that confuse our ...
Out to impress the neighbors in Punjab, India? Try topping your humble abode with a cool water tank rendered as a jet, blossom, or bodybuilder. ...
In a new light art installation dubbed Sense of Field, Tokyo artist Hitomi Sato lets visitors simultaneously see, touch and shape shimmers of light all on sides. The immersive experience ...
“My nose isn’t that big!” protests portrait subject George Wurtzel as he runs his hands over his own image, rendered in paint on thousands of screws raised from a wooden board in a relief ...
