Nesting Architecture: Folding Models of Eastern Bloc Buildings
This series of recycled cardboard models references both the functional styles of postwar Soviet architecture as well as the Russian tradition of handcrafted nesting dolls. In ...
Category: Art
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.
Secrets Beneath Cities: Sculptures Inspired by Nintendo Games
“The underworld is more fun,” says Luke O’Sullivan, the artist who painstakingly crafts stunning cityscape sculptures with intricate subterranean sections inspired by the seemingly ...
Appeals to Authorities: 16 Shots of a Year-Long Graffiti Sequence
What started with a single stenciled word ("RED") became a year-long interactive art experiment, as graffiti artist Mobstr tested the patience, limits, diligence and ingenuity of officials tasked ...
400 Years of London’s Skyline: Watch it Evolve in Seconds
A city with a history dating back over 2,000 years, London has transformed dramatically over the last four centuries in particular, rising from the ashes of a 17th century fire that practically ...
Anxious Anticipation: Photos Made to Pump Up Your Adrenaline
Comprised of hair-raising scenes designed to keep you on the edge of your seat, this series of photos leads your mind to jump forward in time, picturing the catastrophes about to ...
Mosaic Murals: Tile Patterns Spray-Painted in Deserted Spaces
A puzzle of layers rather than pieces, each of this spray-painted works takes aesthetic cues from historic Barcelona, deploying them in novel contexts using unexpected ...
Masterpiece Mashups: Classic Art Gets the GIF Treatment
Vincent Van Gogh is having a good pop culture week on the interwebs with multiple humorous GIF treatments and stunning animations of his works exposing classic art to new generations. In this ...
Oil-Painted Van Gogh Film Features 12 Paintings Per Second
It took over 100 artists to paint this full-length movie, the first of its kind: a work where every frame was hand-painted, then combined into an epic animation about, in the style and using the ...
Using Bullet Holes in Beirut’s Brutalist ‘Egg’ as Camera Obscuras
An abandoned concrete building in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon (known as The Egg) has been everything from a movie theater to a bomb shelter to a water tank, but this intervention would fill the ...
Graffiti to Go: Vibrant Murals on a Fleet of Freighters
The drive along Spain’s highways just got a lot more colorful for thousands of motorists lucky enough to glimpse one of ten semi-trucks decorated with murals by artists like Javier Arce, Okuda ...
