Recently a friend hooked me onto Stinkfish, a Bogota street artist, who has also painted murals in other Colombian and European cities. You can find his photostream here: http://www.flickr.com/
Another Bogota street artist that has reached some fame is Toxicomano. I really like his stencil style. They are really noticeable. Here is some work: http://www.benditomosquito.com/inusual/kolectivo-toxicomano/ and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/toxicomano666/
Another friend has recently asked for people to share their favorite street art, and it included a really interesting list of people:
Banksy in London http://www.banksy.co.uk/ or http://www.boredpanda.com/80-beautiful-street-crimes-done-by-banksy/ https://www.artsy.net/artist/banksy
Vik Muniz in Brazil http://www.npr.org/2011/
http://www.pinksmith.com/ in New York
BLU http://blublu.org/
Jamie Hewlett http://en.wikipedia.org/
Shepard Fairey http://en.wikipedia.org/
Another Bogota street artist that has reached some fame is Toxicomano. I really like his stencil style. They are really noticeable. Here is some work: http://www.benditomosquito.com/inusual/kolectivo-toxicomano/ and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/toxicomano666/
Another friend has recently asked for people to share their favorite street art, and it included a really interesting list of people:
Banksy in London http://www.banksy.co.uk/ or http://www.boredpanda.com/80-beautiful-street-crimes-done-by-banksy/ https://www.artsy.net/artist/banksy
Vik Muniz in Brazil http://www.npr.org/2011/
http://www.pinksmith.com/ in New York
BLU http://blublu.org/
Jamie Hewlett http://en.wikipedia.org/
Shepard Fairey http://en.wikipedia.org/
Swoon (http://en.wikipedia.org/
Invader (http://en.wikipedia.org/
Lora Zombie (http://lorazombie.com/) is also fantastic.
Invader (http://en.wikipedia.org/
Lora Zombie (http://lorazombie.com/) is also fantastic.
Anyway, with this inspiration, I decided to start to collect photos of various graffiti in Bogota. There is some amazing stuff here (and some ugly tagging too).
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| Was so pleased to find this one -- a Stinkfish near Simon Bolivar's house. An old lady was living in the small park in front of it, and got very upset at me taking photos -- she probably thought I was taking them of her. |
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| A stenciled Jesus in a tiny corner of another piece, showing the religious connections in Colombia. |
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| I love this very simple, bad grammar that's really close to my house... it's poetic and such an interesting thing for someone to have chosen to write on the wall. |
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| Toxicomano in the corner, and other artists. In the middle is a cute smiley fish which is an interesting contrast to Stinkfish's evil grin. I've seen the smiley fish in quite a few places. |
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| Love this minute little stencil! |
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| My area! |
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| Mix of two types. |
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| More typical, less interesting. There is a lot of this sort of stuff around. |
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