Guto Naveira – Pop Art From Sao Paulo, Brazil
Guto Naveira – Pop Art From Sao Paulo, Brazil
Guto Naveira has a nice style, cheers me up on a grey London day. Augusto Naveira (aka Guto Naveira) is studying in Sao Paulo and comes from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
New GUI & VERDE Graffiti, Sao Paulo Brazil
New GUI & VERDE Graffiti, Sao Paulo Brazil
Brazilian urban art always excites the crap out of me so it’s great to show some more… We’ve featured GUI and VERDE before, they’ve done some new stuff and it’s looking sick.
FIFTY24SF Gallery (San Francisco) Presents “The Dark Wave” New Solo Urban Art Exhibition by Herbert Baglione
FIFTY24SF Gallery (San Francisco) Presents “The Dark Wave” New Solo Urban Art Exhibition by Herbert Baglione
Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione has been a strong interest in the South American graffiti movement for more than ten years. Inspired by Brazil’s street culture, Baglione started experimenting with new ways to look at his urban environment of Sao Paulo and provoked dialogue about his fresh perspective on urban artwork.
Alongside these efforts are Baglione’s distinctive mural designs and stretched figures representing humans and aliens. These are often balancing elongated and rounded extremes with dramatic iconic symbols such as familiar urban architecture.
Bomb IT Graffiti Documentary – Interview with Jon Reiss – Watch Full Doc Now!
Bomb IT Graffiti Documentary – Interview with Jon Reiss – Watch Full Doc Now!
Graffiti van
Sao Paulo, Brazil Pixacao Tags
‘Bomb IT’ is a new graffiti and urban art documentary from director Jon Reiss, it looks at a broad range of urban art from the likes of Brazil’s Os Gemeos, COPE2 from NY, stencil legend Blek le Rat and a load more legends from all over the world.
World Graffiti Urban Art has an interview with Jon Reiss, the trailers to the movie and the links to watch the ‘BOMB IT’ Graffiti Documentary totally free on Babelgum.com, see below. Really, it’s free and it’s AWESOME!
It’s one of the best graffiti and urban art documentary films we’ve seen, covering exciting graff scenes from as far as South Africa and Brazil. The Brazil coverage is particularly facinating, as they follow pixador artists around Sao Paulo and meet a sewer artist who reveals some pretty heart-breaking scenes.
Pixador graff artist climbs billboard - Sau Paulo, Brazil
The doc is also full of some of the sickest new and old urban art around and even the most hardcore writer will learn something new about the different graffiti scenes around the world.
The full-length documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has screened at over 20 other festivals including Full Frame Doc Fest, is available to watch on Babelgum’s Metropolis Channel, which is dedicated to showcasing videos about art, urban culture and trends.
MICKEY - Holland (Amsterdam) Graffiti Art
Named one of Daily Variety’s “Ten Digital Directors To Watch” John Reiss’s BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action following the movement as it paints the globe from Paris to Sao Paolo and Los Angeles to Cape Town. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today’s most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape.
Check out the trailers below, and an interview with the director Jon Reiss as he talks to World Graffiti about the making of the documentary.
Bomb It: Trailer – No. 1
Q : so how did you hook up with Cornbread? You agree that he’s the first graff writer?
A: We already had at the time a very good relationship with Pose 2 who in turn introduced us to Cornbread. He is one of the first modern graff writers – Cornbread even refers to a freeway writer who was working in the 50s. But for me graff goes back to the birth of human consciousness.
ICE - South Africa Graffiti
Blek le Rat interview - France Stencil and Paste-Up Art
People have been wanting to write on walls since that had something to write with and on! It will continue until we kill ourselves off. Go to Italy – even though there are a lot of writers there – much of the graff in the streets is either political or amourous. People need to express themselves in public.
Q: How long did it take to make the documentary?
A: Started 5 years ago – Bomb IT took three years but its been 2 years in the distribution. The project is expanding not only with the episodes on Babelgum, but we will eventually cut 4-6 more films from our 400 hours of footage. Bomb IT: Sao Paulo is 1/2 way done. NY and LA are in progress.
Bomb It: Urban Trailer – No. 2
Q: Most interesting/weirdest featured artist?
A: Never going to pick favorites – you should know that – all the others will be hating on me.
Q: The gang world and graff world are intertwined in many people’s minds, can the 2 be separated? Do you think the gang connection made by the general public hurts the urban art scene?
A: The link between gangs and graff is mostly established by the media. Even the NYC Vandal Squad laughs at the concept that writers are in gangs. However there are stronger links between gangs and graff in a couple of cities – like LA where some writers have done some things that help the media in their cause to link the two – unfortunately. Education is the best bet – part of the reason I made Bomb It, so that people could understand and appreciate the many many faces of graff.
Q: What’s your favourite graffiti decade? 70s 80s etc?
A: NOW!
Q: Tell me a bit about you, you always been into graff?
A: Nope. Fell into it – a DJ from my film Better Living Through Circuitry introduced me to Sharp and 2ESAE on a trip to NY. Two things hooked me in those meeting – the intelligence and depth of the culture, and the nocturnal run that 2EASE took me out on.
Q: Whats your opinion of the ‘broken window’ theory, that graff leads ultimately to more crime & urban decay?
A: I think my opinion is reflected in the film. As Tkid says “whose quality of life?”.
Q: What was your favourite part of making a documentary like this?
A: Getting people to appreciate a culture that they used to hate.
Bomb It: Worldwide Trailer – No. 3
Q: it was cool you went to Cape Town, great to see some African writers, not usually featured in docs. Totally different style of writing too, you liked it there?
A: Cape Town is amazing! Love it – really generous people.
Q: Do you find yourself looking around for art when you walk around?
A: All the time. Once you start – you can’t stop.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FULL GRAFFITI DOCUMENTARY ‘BOMB IT!’ FREE ON BABELGUM.COM!
You can also watch clips from the film, find your favourite artists…
Thanks very much to Jon for answering my questions, go check out the film, I can’t recommend it enough.
In addition to premiering the full-length documentary film online, Babelgum is debuting exclusive shorts produced for Babelgum by director John Reiss. The pieces spotlight renowned graffiti artists both new and as seen in the film available to view now.
Here are more graffiti videos on World-Graffiti.com.
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VERDE – Brazil Graffiti, Sao Paulo
VERDE – Brazil Graffiti, Sao Paulo
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE & GUI - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
I’m always going on about graffiti and street art in Brazil (Brasil), VERDE is painting out of Sao Paulo and his art is pretty varied and interesting. I love the abstract circles he does, mixed in with classic graff style. He kindly answered a few questions for WG… Always with the questions…
VERDE – When I was a child my father taught me to draw, that’s why I love art. As I grew up I learned to skate, listen to hardcore music, and sort of live the underground life where graffiti was very popular; Then in 2006 I started to work and paint on the walls and streets.
VERDE – I’m pretty sure my art is a mixture of many things, making my own style.
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE & GUI - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
WG - What are your favourite sneakers?
WG - What sort of graffiti are you into? Do you like the wildstyle type more, or old school fat bubble lettering?
VERDE – I believe that the graffiti is kind of an expression of the art, and art is defined as the expression of human creative skill and imagination.
For me its clear as the arrangement of social class and the place that you are with other elements.
Particularly I prefer the WildStyle, working with the letters, but the fat bubble lettering is really nice to paint when you wanna show up a rebel atittude.
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WG - How long does it take you to do a large VERDE piece?
VERDE – Working with the bomb style It took me around five minutes, but it was something with 2 meters.
WG - Do you paint with a crew or on your own, or both?
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE & GUI - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE & GUI - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
VERDE – I really like the color Green (translating to portuguese is gonna be my name.. VERDE), and Black.
Have a look at VERDE’s Flickr, it’s sick, and here is a video of VERDE painting, great vid!
Thanks very much to VERDE for taking the time to answer my questions, go check our more VERDE here!
We have loads of Brazil graff and urban art, check out previous posts from JONS and GUI.
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art - Strawberry
VERDE - Sao Paulo Brazil Graffiti Urban Art
50 Awesome World Graffiti Urban Art Photos – Part 1
50 Awesome World Graffiti Urban Art Photos – Part 1
The site has been up in for 8 months now and I’ve been lucky enough to find or be sent some really awesome graffiti and street art from around the world.
So I’ve picked out my 50 favourite graffiti, street art, poster and stencil art photos from all the 2009 posts so far! Hope you like them, they’re my favourites but it’s all subjective I guess. Part 2 coming soon (another 50 of my favourites).
Loads of these have been sent in by kind people so thanks again to the contributors (credited below).
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- Leake Street, London, UK
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- Leake Street, London, UK
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- Leake Street, London, UK
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- Scratchadelia, London, UK – Grand Master flash
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- Walthamstow Canal, London, UK
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- Walthamstow Canal, London, UK
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- Walthamstow Canal, London, UK
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- Walthamstow Canal, London, UK
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- Millwall, London, UK
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland)
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland) – MIKEY
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland) – SWED
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland) – DISH
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland)
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland)
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland)
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland)
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland)
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- Amsterdam, Netherlands (Holland)
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- New York, USA – Keith Haring tribute
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- New York, USA
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- New York, USA
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- New York, USA – Nick Walker
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- Sao Paulo, Brazil – GUI
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- Brighton, UK
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- Brighton, UK
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- Brighton, UK
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- Brighton, UK
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- Brighton, UK
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- Brighton, UK
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- Sao Paulo, Brazil – GUI
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- Sao Paulo, Brazil – JONS & GUI
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- London, UK – ID-IOM
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- Pisa, Italy – Sent in by Tommaso S
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- Xcolor Exhibition, Japan 2005 – Sent in by OIVAE
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- Japan – PEACEMAN – Sent in by OIVAE
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- Japan – Sent in by OIVAE
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- Japan – Sent in by OIVAE
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- Sao Paulo, Brazil – JONS
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- Sao Paulo, Brazil – JONS
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- France – KA’a
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- France – KA’a & Krupion Collective
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- Island of Lesbos, Greece – Sent in by Pete N
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- Old Street, London, UK – Oscar The Grouch
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- Old Street, London, UK
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- Watford, London – The Boom Bus
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- Walthamstow Canal, London
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- Walthamstow Canal, London
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- Walthamstow Canal, London
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- Walthamstow Canal, London
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Thanks to @DefHi, Heather C, OIVAE, GUI, Bret McNee (Riot For Quiet), Pete N, Sara SN.
Brazil (Brasil) Graffiti, São Paulo – by JONS
JONS – Brazil (Brasil) Graffiti, São Paulo
Today we’ve got JONS, a really interesting Brazilian graffiti artist, painting out of São Paulo. From the photos I’ve seen, JONS seems to have a few different styles going on, characters in black and white and brightly coloured decorative pieces too.
I love how the coloured stuff fits in beautifully with the decaying settings that he paints in. So we’ve got some questions for JONS, and he’s very kindly come back with answers. Enough with my chatter.
WG – When did you start painting/graffing, and what inspired you to start?
JONS – I started doing pieces back in 99/2000, then in 2004 i started to work the styles I do today.
I was inspired entirely by Hip Hop culture, I draw since I was a kid and as a hip hop fan, graffiti just invaded my life.
WG – What do you use to paint?
JONS – I use latex to fill big spaces or backgrounds, and spray paint for the drawings…I normally use Brazilian spray paints Colorgin Arts and Worx, combined with MTN.
WG – Where do you paint, São Paulo? Any particular districts?
JONS – Normally all over São Paulo, I really like to paint places far from downtown, less rich neihgborhoods and abandoned places too. São Paulo is too big to paint always in the same area.
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WG – What name do you paint as?
JONS – I paint as JONS, but i also sign SNOJ sometimes.
WG – What are your influences when you paint?
JONS – Anything that my mind can feel…from art itself to music. Anything can inspire people in certain way…i try to absorb all that and put it up on the wall in an abstract way.
WG – Tell us a bit about your crew – What is the name, who else are you running with, when did it start?
JONS – I’m down with the UH crew, that besides me, Branca and Consp from Brasil, still counts with Betor, Dopesick, Ksra, Tier2, Kor, Mir, Seap, Rekon, Robotone, Leak, Rukus, Knives, Kalus, Epok and Found…all writers from the USA, and I have a crew of Brazilian writers called The Ones, with Branca, Consp, Icone, Morie, Danirox, Reif and Celione.
WG – Are there any artists out there you particularly like?
JONS – Os Gemeos for sure, they inspire me since forever, Speto, Tinho and other old school writers as well, and a lot of writers that I know up here.
Thanks very much to JONS for taking the time, you can see more of his art on Flickr and Fotolog, He’s got some great stuff in there so take a look.
It’s been a great couple of weeks for World Graffiti and Brazil, check out a previous post featuring GUI from Sao Paulo, and these crackers from Renato A, Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio de Janeiro Graffiti – Brazil (Brasil) – From Renato A
Rio de Janeiro Graffiti – Brazil (Brasil) – From Renato A
I’m seeing a lot more Brazil (Brasil) graffiti and street art, it’s all pretty awesome. Here are a few photos sent over from Renato A and they’re brilliant I reckon.
These 3 street art pics are from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Renato sent me some details about them so I’ll hand this over to him to tell you about them…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brasil) graffiti
1) Where it was taken: Brasil, Rio de Janeiro – Penha
2) The date of the photo: 09/11/2008
3) Artist name: (Unknown)
4) Comments: That’s a suburban street art. very expressive and shows the “poor face of the reality” of Rio de Janeiros’ communities.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brasil) graffiti - Hip Hop
1) Where it was taken: Brasil, Rio de Janeiro – Tijuca
2) The date of the photo: 09/11/2008
3) Artist name: (Unknown)
4) Comments: Such a beautiful and Psycodelic street art! Intense colors and very, very expressive!
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Brasil) graffiti
1) Where it was taken: Brasil, Rio de Janeiro – subway’s wall of Siqueira Campos (Copacabana)
2) The date of the photo: 12/11/2008
3) Artist name: (Unknown)
4) Comments: We use to call “Gari” our workers who takes trashes with trucks. A very nice pic of a honest and good brazilian worker.
Thanks very much again to Renato A for sending these Rio de Janeiro street art photos over.
Check out this previous Brazil graffiti by GUI, or this wild graff from Brighton.
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GUI – Graffiti in Brazil – Sao Paulo
GUI Talks to WG about Graffiti and Painting in Brazil
Street art and graffiti in Brazil is as vibrant as ever, I first saw GUI’s graffiti art on Twitter (@XGUIX) after he put up a some photos of him painting in a toilet in Brazil (the shots are included, really awesome…).
I love the variety in his art styles, that still keeps the interlocking themes. I’m a big fan of bold colours and solid black lines too, and GUI’s got them, and then some!
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
I wanted to find out more so we’ve got a bit of an interview with GUI to learn more about his art and what graffing in Brazil is like.
WG – How long have you been painting for?
GUI – In 2007 I started to paint in the streets. It’s not so long, but before that I used to play with sprays doing some banners for my school, when they needed to.
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art - This one has a bit of a BLU vibe I reckon
WG – What got you interested in graffiti art?
GUI – Since I was a kid, my older brother used to show me some graffiti at streets and I live next Cambuci neighborhood, that’s the place where “Os Gemeos” and “Vitché” were born and grew up, and because of that I always watched his draws and used to stay fascinated with that.
Before that my older brother started to teach me some things that he had learned on a draw course and I started to draw and find my own style. After that I never stopped.
When I started my graphic design course in the college, I became even more interested for the street art and I decided to draw in the streets, with a friend that lives in the same neighborhood that me, and that’s what I do until now.
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
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WG – What artists out there inspire you, what artists do you like at the moment?
GUI – Some artists that I always have admired are “Os Gemeos”, “Vitché”, “Onesto”, and others. Nowadays I appreciate “Titi Freak”, “Mr. Zero”, “Highraff”, “Flip”, “Finok” “Aryz” from Spain… there are a lot of people doing a good work, but I can’t remember all of them right now.
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
WG – what music you listening to?
GUI – I listen to almost all kind of rock, since classics to the newest crazy bands and music. I listen to rap and electronic music too. Actually it depends on my mood and what my ears need in the moment.
WG -What materials do you use to paint? So do you have a favourite type of paint or cap?
GUI – I use látex with some pigment to do the foundation, and spray Montana.
I like to use fat cap to do some bombs on the streets and to fill some draws… and pro skinny cap to do the trace (lines) and outlines of my personage and etc.
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
WG - Where is your favourite place to spray?
GUI – My favorite place is anywhere that I’m welcomed by the locals and I prefer a plane wall… lol
Independent of where I am, if I’m ok, with my friends, painting, I don’t need anything else.
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
GUI graff - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
GUI & CRIS & NALDO & ESCADAO - Brazil Sao Paulo (Cambuci) graffiti art
WG – Is graffiti popular in Brazil or do government councils and locals try and stop it? I’m interested in what normal people in Brazil think of graffiti and street art. In the UK/USA some are more relaxed about it than others…
GUI - Graffiti here in Brazil became popular with the ascension of some guys that do graffiti to the artistic world (cause mostly of people used to see graffiti as something bad, and now some of them can see it as art). But in my city, São Paulo, there’s a law called “cidade limpa” (cleaned city), and when the government think that in some place shouldn’t have a graffiti, they erase the draws painting the wall with gray ink, but it just makes us to want to go back there and do other graffiti, making it to be a persistence and resistance “fight”.
Some people relate graffiti to something dirty, they don’t understand the street art, so sometimes we have to listen some people complaining. But in the other hand, when I’m doing some painting, a lot of people pass and compliment… so, sometimes I can’t imagine the reaction of people.
VERDE (left) & GUI (right) - Brazil Sao Paulo graffiti art
Here is a vid of GUI painting on the streets in Sao Paulo…
So that’s it! Thanks loads to GUI for giving a bit of an insight into his art and graff in Brazil, what a hero!
He’s on Twitter so go find him for more Brazil graffiti (@XGUIX), or check out more of his art on his flickr.
Here are a couple of interesting posts, UBIK from UAE has some wild urban art, and here is some great San Francisco graffiti from earlier in the year.
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