22+ Reverse Graffiti Artists

But two artists have turned this guerrilla art form on its ear by.

Reverse graffiti artists. English artist paul curtis aka moose is one of the first street artists to make an art piece using the reverse graffiti technique. 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. Moose paul curtis a k a. Graffiti has long been thought of as vandalism spray paint and wheat pastes defacing city walls and buildings. Taking a cue from the wash me messages scrawled on. In places where tagging is illegal replacement tags are too. 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.

The intervention was called ossario ossuary and was over 1000 feet long. The history of reverse graffiti. 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. Some artists like mathieu tremblin paint a surface clean then write over graffiti with their own work in his case. Still reverse graffiti was never considered a style until moose entered the scene a british artist devoted to environmentalism and a particular visual expression. The 10 coolest examples of reverse graffiti lead. Reverse graffiti is also known by other names such as.

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. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as reverse graffiti. Clean advertising street advertising dirty street advertising clean graffiti clean tagging. Humorously replacing loose tags with digital style tag clouds. Moose is the pioneer of grime writing having been active on the scene for over 15 years now. Since then he s created personal. The original reverse graffiti artist real name paul curtis moose is the grand daddy of reverse graffiti.

Paul curtis also known as moose invented reverse graffiti about a decade ago. He s been cleaning the streets of the uk and beyond for around ten years.