Saturday, December 6, 2008

the relative merits of street cred


I recently saw this image above from Banksy and wondered about the tag currently attached to him, as 'the world's most famous street artist'. - Well that's the trouble with fame, credibility and particularly 'greatness', like Einstein's theory - they are all relative.

Below is some awe inspiring street animation from the Argentinian artist BLU (don't mention the Falklands pls) which to some more than tops Banksy for street cred...... originality and artistic endeavour. It may be like comparing apples and oranges - but hey isn't it tremendous to have such wonderful fruit:


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

1 comment:

Chris Reed said...

That Blu animation is totally amazing isn't it? Very dark though.
As for who is best - I'm going to sit on the fence there. Both great, just a bit different.