![]() ![]() With all the visual input you get these days it can be easy to feel like your disappearing in a jungle of noise. Well, yeah, I work a lot with the colors and contrasts, as you might see strong contrasts has been an ongoing theme in my works for a long time! I think a lot of people will discover, if they really look within themselves, that they can be a little bit grey. What if it was the opposite? What if looking within ourselves we discover only gray while we are surrounded by multicolored banners? Hey Martin, let’s start from the color, in most of your pieces the color explodes behind a gray cover, or is within us while everything else is gray like concrete. Since his artistic debut in 2004, he has had several solo shows and participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and in international metropoles like Tokyo, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. He use grey tones as a basis but add’s vibrant colours to break the monochrome concrete expression and bring a splash of life to his motives. His interest for decay has developed his style, creating either unity or conflict between materials, backgrounds, and human intervention. He looks for inspirations in people, city landscapes, old buildings, graffiti, posters and decaying walls. Their main aim is to bring out the aesthetics and showcase it to the world.Norwegian Martin Whatson has a continuous urge to search for beauty in what is commonly dismissed as ugly, out of style or simply left behind. Urban forms, a festival of street art found in 2009, emphasis on the organizing and promoting of the independent street-artists. They aim to bring together all the street-artists every March, to create a colourful world for a living. ![]() Hong KongĪ non-profit community called HK Walls in Hong Kong is dedicated to street-art and art forms for many years now. Over many years now, the city of Atlanta is blessed with festivals like the Living walls that tend to educate the community about the power of local art and healthy living. The festival is organized by the localities and invites the most famous street-art practitioners, which sums up to almost 3000 visitors every year. Pow! Wow! is the street art festival that is conducted in Hawaii, for the last nine years. This city consists of the world’s most massive outdoor mural, which is across 21,000 square meters. The festival brings together the most renowned street-art practitioners in the world including Fintan Magee, Martin Whatson and many more. Thanks to the famous street art festival invented in 2001, called Nuart that has changed the name of the city to ‘city of street-art’. Over the years, the city has encouraged people to paint murals on the walls to increase the beauty and attraction to tourist places. Berlinīerlin street art was practised during the Cold War when street artists painted essential messages on the Berlin wall. The art festival is held every year during spring that welcomes street artists from all around the world. The Crystal Ship festival over the past four years has turned the Belgian coastal city of Ostend into an art gallery. Their contribution has turned the entire city into an open art gallery, which is much appreciated and adored by the visitors. The Jersey City Mural Arts Program is the most popular street-art festival that includes famous artists like Seth, Ruben Sanchez and many more. It is one of the most talented cities in the US for street art. The city gained global attention for street art in 2013 when the famous singer Justin Bieber started graffiti-painting after his concert, which encouraged even the local artists to pick up the trend. This violence-plagued city has now turned a safe place for tourists and thousands of street-art fanatics. The event has been taking place for 11 years now and is marked as a global destination for urban street art. The festival takes place every June that attracts millions of visitors from all around the world. Mural Fest, the largest mural festival in North America, is held at Montreal. Thanks to the street-art festivals that have thrown light on these ten cities that are a sight to the sore eyes. The street-art festivals conducted every year in cities like Paris and London have turned the tables for this section. It has become a potential career prospect for some and also a hobby for many. ![]() Street Art is a form of art that indulges in creating masterpieces out of the plain, street-side walls. From what was once declared vandalism, is now a community that attracts a lot of tourists. ![]() Street art is changing the world for the better. ![]()
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