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20 Awesome Pieces of Street Art That You Won’t Believe Exist In Delhi

  |MY MISSION FOR THIS YEAR|

*Bucket list update - Check these out before the end of this year. They are all in Delhi and I haven't seen them yet. Shame on me*

Also a huge huge shoutout to Scoopwhoop for this awesomeness, also Raj Das for curating them all and sharing with us.

(Aaand the title is inspired by Enrique Iglesias's song "Heartbeat")

Delhi is a city of ironies. It's dotted with locales where the urban meets the rural. Shahpur Jat is one such amalgamation. Once the boutiques and galleries entered the fray we stopped calling it gaon and started calling it 'urban village' instead. But if you see past the masquerade, it's still the same place. 

Earlier this year, a few international and local artists organized themselves and started the 'St.ART Delhi 2014' project. They chose specific places in Delhi, particularly in and around Shahpur Jat, and started painting. They faced queries from many curious locals, most of them not familiar with the concept of public art. 

In the end, here's what they achieved;

1. By Sé Cordeiro 

2. By Artez

3.  By Harsh Raman

4. By Okuda

5. By Andy Yen

6. By Tofu

7. By Tona

8. By Foe

9. By Foe

10. By Mattia Lullini

11. By Alina Vergnano

12. By Alina Vergnano

13. By Bond

14. By Alias

15. By Alias

16. By Tones

17. By Tones

18. By Tones

19. By Ranjit Dhaiya

20. By Hendrik ECB Beikirch and ANPU

All photos by Akshat Nauriyal except number 1 and 6 (by Jayant Parashar), number 2 (by Artez) and number 8 (by Enrico Fabian).

This project was organized by St+Art India Foundation which is a Delhi-based non-profit working on Public Art projects in urban spaces.
This project was reported by Brooklyn Street Art.

H/T to Huffington Post.

Source - http://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/delhi-street-art/

Author- http://www.scoopwhoop.com/author/raj/

Insta Roar!

" I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing

through the fire 'Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear

me roar Louder, louder than a lion"

While exploring on various mediums, especially Instagram I found something grand and worth sharing.

Unleashed Tiger in Johannesburg 

Leopard breaking free into Johannesburg

  Leopard breaking free into Johannesburg

What attracted me to this one was the use of colors and the magical effect of the tiger and leopard actually breaking free. The geometric effetc when the leopard is jumping out is phenomenal.

Go out. Explore. Share


You can find more here - http://globalstreetart.com/
Insagram : http://instagram.com/globalstreetart
Artist : https://www.facebook.com/sonnyartist

PixelArt

Well, we have seen all sorts of street art wonders now and then. How about when we combine digital designs and art? Ever thought of pixelated street art?
A group of students who call themselves "Wall D" inspired by Walt Disney have gone all out and defined street art in an all new way especially around their college campus (Amity University Noida). They are traveling around India and making a difference almost everyday. What I like most about them is that they are staunch 90's lovers. I happen to be from the same college and had gone out for quick bite to the place where I found this treasure. I found out about them from the very interesting QR code that they had painted right below their artwork, again that was genius. Have stayed in touch ever since and keep tracking their work all around the country. They are going to be a regular feature on this blog but for now check out this fantastic Sachin Tendulkar Wall art by them.

You can follow them too : https://www.facebook.com/wall.d.street

Connection

In the popular book series "Harry Potter", there is a fictional game by the name "Quidditch". In that there is a "Seeker", a person who is supposed to catch the snitch a Golden ball that spins and runs like the wind in mid-air, with the blink of an eye it disappears. Blink, is the name of a book written by Malcolm Gladwell, in which he mentions that it just takes one fleeting second to know that there is something, it could be wrong or it could be a point of similarity or difference.
For this post, I am the Seeker, the artwork is the golden snitch and the "Blink" moment is the similarity that I notice, I don't know about you guys. You'll have to see it to belive it.
What happens when two different people, from different places have similar ideas?
What if a third person, sitting in an entirely different place far from them notices it? They don't know, what I know.
Interesting?

Well, you're about to see is more interesting than that.

One is a Street Artist, whose work I recently came across. The other one is an Illustrator and designer based in Phillipines who occasionally does wall art too.

By Seth
Location - Mostly Paris

By Rommel

Location - Phillipines

The Dreamer

Story's End

The Sleeper

Let's pretend everything's okay!

The Secret

Picture Credits
Seth - Street Art Utopia
Rommel - Strange Skins (Blog)

RhinoSaveRos

"Save the Rhino"

 A fantastic initiative taken up by Yantr the Street Artist from India on account of 22nd September being "World Rhino Day". Creating awareness regarding the diminishing One Horned Rhino in Assam. Did you know that they are killed for their horns?

Credits : https://www.facebook.com/yantr.india

PS: He is the same artist who painted the Masked Buddha 

*Quick Fact : He is one of the few artists especially in India who is into Earthworks. More coming soon!

CollabArt

 Collaboration + Art

Since time immemorial we have been seeing multiple types of collaborations, but off late we are seeing them in the most unique situations. One of the recent one's on which I stumbled upon was "Street Art" and "Home Design"
Yes, you read that right!
Somewhere in southern Tel Aviv, industrial designers and street artists are joining hands to come up with the most creative collaborations of all time. The interior designers went to the most active street art hubs in the city and placed a blank canvas here and there. Left them for a couple of days and the let the magic do the trick.

At first, they were disappointed because the canvas was left blank with no action.

But soon, there were some pencil sketches and like I mentioned, magic started taking place. What followed left me speechless.

Firstly, the collaboration itself excited me because the possibilities are infinite and yet to be explored. Secondly, when the designers did what they did with the artwork was simply fantastic.

Prepare to be amazed!

Behold the one-of-a-kind furniture called "Street Capture"

 

Credits - Slate.com

Artists - Ariel Zuckerman and Eran Shimshovitz 

Street Artists - Anonymous

Street Art & Google

Google - Street Art Project

What happens when a search engine giant finds unique artists and their artwork from around the world, maps them and allows everyone to have dekko?

Well, we have some magic floating around, we need to look clearly. Here is a quick look. You may go to the link above as well. The pictures are pretty much the same.

Vhils using the texture of the wall as a canvas

One amazing thing that Google has done with this project is that they have made the inaccessible artwork available to the world. With the help of the StreetView you can go and see the places that actually had artwork but are now maybe off the walls or demolished. 

Street Art 101

All the differences one would want to know!

via Memrise