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Flatiron Building New York (2006) Big Ben on a rainy evening (2008) Venice (2008) Stephen Wiltshire MBE, Hon.FSAI, Hon.FSSAA (born 24 April 1974) is a British architectural artist and autistic savant. [1] He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once. His work has gained worldwide popularity.
Describing himself as a photograffeur (a portmanteau of "photographer" and "graffeur"—French for "graffiti artist"), he flyposts large black-and-white photographic images in public locations. [5] He states that the street is "the largest art gallery in the world." [6] [7] He started out on the streets of Paris. [8]
A trademark rat running around the circumference of a clock-face, dubbed Rat race, was torn down by developers within a week of it appearing on a former bank building at 101 West 14th Street, [148] but other works, including a mural of imprisoned Kurdish artist Zehra Doğan on the famed Bowery Wall and a series of others across Brooklyn, remain ...
Caricature by Rudolf Swoboda (c. 1900) Joseph Urban set design drawing for Ziegfeld Follies of 1919. Joseph Urban was born on May 26, 1872, in Vienna.He received his first architectural commission at age 19 when he was selected to design the new wing of the Abdin Palace in Cairo by Tewfik Pasha.
Alex Schaefer (born 1969) is an American artist, painter, activist, and educator. He is a notable figure in the Los Angeles contemporary art scene, and has received widespread coverage regarding his series of paintings depicting real-world branches of various banks on fire .
He takes inspiration from locations around the world that he has visited, with a focus on architecture. He uses a limited, neutral palette. Exhibitions have included: Drumcroon, Wigan (1991), [ 3 ] Parsons Walk, Wigan (1991), [ 4 ] Crewe and Alsager College (2003) [ 5 ] and Heseltine Gallery, Banbury (2003, 2007, 2009, 2012).
"The Rhythms of Life project by Australian artist Andrew Rogers is the largest contemporary land-art project in the world, forming a chain of stone sculptures, or geoglyphs, around the globe. Monumental geoglyphs have been constructed in ten countries to date: Israel, Chile, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Iceland, China, India, Turkey and Nepal.
Art historian Dr. Heather Shirey, one of the three faculty directors of the team, had the idea to map COVID-19 pandemic-related street art for future education and research, and launched the database, which includes images from around the world, and became a model for the George Floyd and Antiracist Street Art database. [2]