30 Stencil Graffiti Artworks that are worth seeing
By Village Mayor • Feb 25th, 2009 • Category: Art, Latest Post, The Best of Village of JoySome people will say it’s definitely Banksy others will deny that. I intentionally haven’t written the artists that made these graffiti stencils, because it always gets people into quarrel.
Moreover, knowing the artist distorts the way you see and evaluate the Artwork itself – because if you are a fan of Banksy – even a poo on a wall made by him will look cool to you.
I give you an unique opportunity to see this art without knowing who drew it (if you don’t know it already of course) and be not biased about it.
Enjoy the street art!
1. Snort (London, UK)
(image credits: What What)
“after following a white paint trail around the streets of shoreditch it ends up at this stencil. “
2. Do not cross (Copenhagen, Denmark)
This would look even cooler if the Police Line was actually real.
(image credits: akav)
3. Maid (London, UK)
(image credits: What What)
4. What Are You Looking At? (London, UK)
(image credits: bhikku)
Apparently the cam read the stencil and decided to look somewhere else (see how it looks now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhikku/55921364/)
5. The Thief(London, UK)
(image credits: Bright Tal)
6. Rude Boy Rat(Brighton, UK)
(image credits: What What)
7. iNeed (London, UK)
(image credits: What What)
8. Dead Pedestrian (somewhere in Europe)
(image credits: x10art)
9. Banana Therapy (London, UK)
(image credits:imagesniper)
10. I Am Your Father (Melbourne, Australia)
(image credits: sensesmaybenumbed)
11. E=mc^2 (London, UK)
(image credits:wokka)
12. Cut here! (somewhere in the planet Earth)
(image credits: x10art, but we got an email from “x10art” that it was not his original idea, he saw it somewhere in the net)
13. Taking Shower is for Dirty People (Washington, DC, USA)
(image credits: MatthewBradley)
14. Girl Jumping (Brooklyn, NYC, USA)
(image credits: Qaanaaq)
15. Don’t F*ck up (Berlin, Germany)
(image credits: dr. motte)
16. I have The A.s.s Too! (Only God knows where..)
(image credits: Maxx)
17. Ribcage (Paris, France)
(image credits: What What)
18. Killing People is Rude (Chicago, IL, USA)
(image credits: ElDave)
19. Strange Zebra (Dublin, Ireland)
(image credits:jaqian)
20. Leopard Escapes (London, UK)
(image credits: Judo10)
21. Just Back from McDonalds? (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
(image credits: Lord Jim)
22. Just Do It! (Lisbon, Portugal)
(image credits: cudmore)
23. Girl Slide (London, UK)
(image credits: unusualimage)
24. Take That Society (London, UK)
(image credits: unusualimage)
25. The truth about Paris (Barcelona, Spain)
(image credits: Dr Case)
Sometimes simple truths can look cool.
26. Kid and a Boat (London, UK)
(image credits: Zohar Manor-Abel)
27. Art Removed! (Asheville, N Carolina, USA)
(image credits: zen)
“These slabs were where for the last two years the Winklers had worked hard despite the Asheville Cultural Art and Parks people to get the French Broad River Sculpture Festival up and running. It was a tremendous success, but they were asked to do something crazy like provide a flood-plan and other paperwork hassles so they’ve moved it this year to Woodfin. A loss for us in Asheville, but i’m glad it’s still able to continue.” Funny protest indeed.
28. Weapon of Mass Humiliation (Wellington, New Zealand)
(image credits: maxw)
29. B*ch and The Beast (Madrid, Spain)
(image credits: Brocco Lee)
30. The Truth about Capitalism (San Francisco, CA, USA)
(image credits: Jeff Tabaco)
If you like graffiti art don’t forget to check this also: Amazing Graffiti Art by Banksy
If you want to dive deeper in this subject there is an excellent book about street graffiti: Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents
“Nicholas Ganz has done a great job at traveling the world to capture in this book the state of street art everywhere. Taking the reader through it by continents (Americas, Europe, Rest of the World), the book takes you on an in-depth, visually-loaded trip that highlights the work of the best street artists around these days.”- review from Amazon.com
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November 13th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Wow, most of these are banksy, yes?
October 8th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Number 16. is from Stavanger in Norway
September 19th, 2009 at 10:11 am
No 21 would freak you out coming home at night after few beers and suddenly seeing a cromagnon there standing nukkid with a cheeseburger.
August 14th, 2009 at 3:59 am
most inspirational veiwing pleasure …….agree w/the remark of asheville ,nokak,
oh yeah and JOEY BAG OF DONUTS is that you my helicopter homie, if so hows trix
yeah
August 8th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Banksy is great, most of his stuff is amazing
August 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I agree, “Capitlaism is gay” stencil is ridiculous and pointless.. it’s just as bad as putting “Terrorism is cool”.
fair enough the two towers stencil can be seen as offensive..
But Art is just something you can get away with :\
July 6th, 2009 at 7:11 am
The majority of those stencils are by Banksy, who is from Bristol (UK). His work can still be found there, here are some examples http://www.bristol-street-art.co.uk/category/banksy-street-art
Bristol also has a lot of other stencil artwork that is not by Banksy, check these out http://www.bristol-street-art.co.uk/category/stencil-street-art
June 28th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
I believe Nr 10 the grafitti artist Dolk Lundgrens, and located in Bergen, Norway
http://marcozna.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/i-am-your-father-star-wars-graffiti-by-dolk/
June 15th, 2009 at 4:03 am
great work, perfect examples of contemporary painting.
Banksy will be considered a force in early twentieth century art by historians of the future……
June 9th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Wow , really cool. That’s a banksy i have never seen before. Thanks.
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:06 pm
whoever wrote that capitalism is gay is such a retard
an if tha just do it 1’s bout terrorism then they deserve 2 get shot
May 28th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
The Mona Lisa stencil is located in the town Stavanger (norway), under the streetart festival there.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
That painting with the twin towers was fucked up. I’d like to meet that person and feed them to a wood chipper…
May 27th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Graffiti, the most controversial art form has become a complex and diverse visual culture with its own language, standards, categories and history. Well, I also compiled some amazing Graffiti street art and would like to share it with you all.
Miracles of Urban Graffiti Culture
http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/graffiti-art/
Thnks!!
May 11th, 2009 at 6:58 am
These are really nice , they look so real ! great work
And ” Just do it” is not offending , try to see the symbol behind it ! who drew this is sure not happy about September 11
No one is
April 27th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Hahaha, all are good, but the #3 is very f*ck.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
almost all banksy, but thats okay.
i love me some graffiti.
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:20 am
No. 19, Strange Zebra (Dublin, Ireland), is the “Merbra Stencil” by a graffitit and installation artist, Asbestos, and this particular stencil can be found at http://www.theartoasbestos.com under “Stuff I Can’t Pigeon Hole” and “Distorted Animals”
Brilliant list, populated by a lot of Banksy though. Not that that’s bad!
April 15th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Hey
cool post,
btw nr. 16. “I have The A.s.s Too!” is in Norway / Stavanger
April 14th, 2009 at 12:54 am
There is so much to be said for all of these pieces. The discourse regarding that which offends is exactly why this form of Art is NECESSARY. The discourse in that which it speaks of, is exactly why this form of Art is necessary. And for all reasons observed, the discourse must be to continued as art. Right on!
April 13th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
You spelled New Zealand wrong. Fail.
April 7th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Thank you including a work that it he realizes in madrid is 29 both lovers are a esperanza aguirre and manuel fraga two politicians of rights a greeting
April 5th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
don’t be offended…dig further…
April 4th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Bi**h you are an idiot. please kill yourself.
April 1st, 2009 at 10:14 pm
f**k you for #22, the just do it one. you have no idea how offensive that is, so many people died. you are fucking heartless.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
“Capitalism is so gay”?
How misguided.
Capitalism needs racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:55 am
The Ribcage one is great. And the Paris Hilton one.
March 13th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
the first at least 10 made me laugh those are some really funny funniez!!! This is so funny!
March 10th, 2009 at 11:42 am
banksy rocks!
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 am
things that look simple are actually complex (like the rising of the sun). These pictures are bit like that…awesome…
March 1st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
thanks for including my photo (#10) – there is a lot of amazing street art around Melbourne
February 28th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
I am your father… ^^
February 26th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Number 16, the Mona Lisa, can be found in Stavanger, Norway ^^