Making Faces: Huge Military Warehouse Mural Spans 48 Windows
Covering two sides of a three-story building in Rome, this ground-to-roof artwork is massive, even by the standards of a big-thinking street artist like BLU used to large-scale ...
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.
Automotive Acid Trip: The Graphic 3D Art Of Chris LaBrooy
Chris LaBrooy loves vintage vehicles, but with a twist: the digital artist's far-out 3D illustrations are an automotive acid trip into the 4th dimension. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Chris ...
Yarn Bomb Bus: Knitted Double Decker Cruises Around London
Has there ever been a cozier-looking bus cruising around the streets of London than this neon yarn-bombed double decker dubbed the No. 7up? The beverage brand commissioned Austin-based artist and ...
Motion Exposure: Light Art Captures the Movement of Kayaks
Strange undulating patterns of colored lights seem to slink across the surface of water like living entities in this captivating series of images by Ontario-based photographer Stephen Orlando. In ...
Wall is Over: Art Students Whitewash Historical Street Murals
In an audacious and contentious move, a group of young artists took it upon themselves to paint over the famous John Lennon Wall in Prague, replacing decades of layered mural work, drawings and ...
Galactic Booze: Interstellar Landscapes Drawn in Scotch
Whisky enthusiast and hobbyist photographer Ernie Button was about to wash a glass when he noticed that the scotch residue at the bottom had dried into a series of chalky, delicate lines. This ...
Iconic Camouflage: Painted People Disappear into Cityscapes
Unlike some other prominent artists working with more seamless urban camouflage in strange or offbeat settings, this work in NYC by Trina Merry allows for curves and distortions, and operates ...
Tape Tunnels: Crawl Inside a Human-Sized Spiderweb in Paris
Stretching from one end of the Palais de Tokyo gallery in Paris to the other, these strange translucent tunnels look like human-sized versions of the funnel-shaped webs of grass spiders. Instead ...
Architectural Magic: Big Stone Building Breaks Free & Floats
A work of art, genius and incredible effort, half of this replica structure appears to hang in mid-air, seeming at once a perfect aesthetic fit for its surroundings and completely disconnected ...
Vacant Buddha: Intricate Paper Sculptures Seem to Disappear
Deceptively solid-looking when seen from either side, the delicacy of these paper sculptures is revealed if you simply shift your position to view them straight on. Korean artist Ho Yoon Shin ...
