Reverse Graffiti Artists
Mural artist kevin mchugh creates reverse graffiti mural using a power washer on dirty farmyard walls creating images of and owl hares playing and ducks flying.
Reverse graffiti artists. Some artists like mathieu tremblin paint a surface clean then write over graffiti with their own work in his case. The 10 coolest examples of reverse graffiti lead. Taking a cue from the wash me messages scrawled on. Graffiti has long been thought of as vandalism spray paint and wheat pastes defacing city walls and buildings.
Humorously replacing loose tags with digital style tag clouds. Clean advertising street advertising dirty street advertising clean graffiti clean tagging. The original reverse graffiti artist real name paul curtis moose is the grand daddy of reverse graffiti. Armed with rags brushes and in some cases pressure hoses a number of street artists across the globe have begun.
Well known graffiti in los angeles by seen ua. He discovered the technique at his dishwashing job and in 2004 used detergent and a wire brush to create designs in the dirt on pavements and walls in leeds and manchester. The history of reverse graffiti. The intervention was called ossario ossuary and was over 1000 feet long.
But two artists have turned this guerrilla art form on its ear by. Richard richie mirando known as seen ua first started to paint on new york city subway system in 1973 at the age of 12 along with his crew united artists ua seen quickly gained the reputation for producing full color throw ups on whole cars he was one of the most renowned graffiti artists when graffiti as an art was still in its infancy. In places where tagging is illegal replacement tags are too. English artist paul curtis aka moose is one of the first street artists to make an art piece using the reverse graffiti technique.
Moose paul curtis a k a. Since then he s created personal. That clearly is of a kind with what was underneath. Moose is the pioneer of grime writing having been active on the scene for over 15 years now.
Although the origin of reverse graffiti is not known the first recorded large scale reverse graffiti art piece was made by alexandre orion in 2006. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as reverse graffiti. Still reverse graffiti was never considered a style until moose entered the scene a british artist devoted to environmentalism and a particular visual expression.