Throughout Rio de Janiero there is an abundance of quality street art. Largely, in the form of painted murals and graffiti. Of course, like any urban area, they have their fair share of typical tags. We walked past this wall on our way to the Jardim Botanico (Botanical Gardens). It must have been a mile long, the cement wall saturated with a collage of artists’ expressions.
No matter where you are in the world people are looking for ways to express themselves. This post by 2ExpertsDesign captures some amazing artwork—55 Unbelievable Examples of Graffiti Artworks Around the World (their first image is also from Rio).
Brian Pickings (my new favorite blog!) brought this new book Arabic Graffiti to my attention.
The lush hardcover tome curates graffiti artists and typographers from the Middle East and around the world, who incorporate Arabic calligraphy styles in their artwork—a beautiful intersection of tradition and contemporary creativity. —Read their full post with lots of images: PICKED: Arabic Graffiti. Diplomacy by way of street art, or what Gaza has to do with Banksy.
See our previous post about Street Art in Seattle.