For the most part, I don’t think graffiti is beautiful. It seems like the kind of thing people create when their inner artist has been kidnapped and terrorized by their inner hoodlum. When it covers a whole wall, the effect reminds me of an overstuffed closet and makes me want to close the door. Like this …
New York graffiti
But then there’s the occasional work that transcends into public work of art. I stumbled across these amazing images in Flickr that made me say, “Wow.”
From a street Duesseldorf/Germany famous for its graffiti.
On a Wall in New York's West Village (near the Meatpacking District)
A work from the world-famous Blu Graffiti artist, on a wall in Berlin
I’ll say it again. Wow.
The first one is such a bad photoshop. The other's are impressive.