What can I say? It has been a whirlwind few weeks making our way through nature’s playground – Iceland! While I did happen to miss Wednesday’s post, I give you some Friday awesomeness to bring in your weekend.
Reykjavik, Iceland has some of the best street art/graffiti I’ve seen and on a massive scale. The colors are just stunning along with the fact they take up an entire side of a building. It is a wonder how so much art comes from a population of 300,000. It brings a smile to my face knowing that art is not only plentiful but is encouraged in any medium. It is a staple of their culture!
The chicken, the giraffe and the monkey are my favourites here. Give me cartoon animal graffiti and I give you smiles! I LOVE street art, and like you say it’s awesome that such a small population produces this kind of art 🙂
Who knew that Reykjavik had such awesome street art! Love the guy with the big red lips 🙂
I LOVED walking around Reykjavik and seeing all the street art. Like you, I was surprised to find so much! It just adds to how colorful the city is.
I took some if these exact same shits when I was there last year! The street art was pretty darn cool. Did you see the guerilla knitting on the trees too?
Excellent. Iceland’s street art kicks America’s street arts butt!
There were too many – I couldn’t pick my favorite. I liked them for very different reasons. LOVE though!
I think the red lips guy is winning the popular vote. It obviously caught my photo-eye!
I especially love all the hotels and houses near the docks that were painted from leftover paint!
I didn’t see that one and now I’m a bit sad that I didn’t. It really was peeking out of everyone corner. Do you have a pic?
RIGHT? I guess it depends on where you go as well because NYC has quite an amazing collection.
OMG! I just saw my typo! Ack! SHOTS, not sh*ts! Hilarious!
Here is the link to my Iceland post from last year with the guerrilla knitting… it was quite the project for someone!
http://www.living-my-life-in-reverse.com/2011/09/reykjavik-iceland-day-175.html
My street art is under the graffiti tab!
Cheers!
Andrea
This was one of those things that I LOVED about Reykjavik. Some of the street art that I loved was less traditional too, like a map of Iceland made of broken glass and what looked like dripping paint made out of glitter. It’s a magical place and like you said its inspiring to be around so much creativity!
Interesting that a lot of it seems very cartoony – not a lot of stencils that you see in other countries.
Hey! I have the second last one too! 🙂
Cute, Colorful and Creative!!!
Wow those are beautiful!!!!!! NYC has beautiful street art but this might rival that!
We loved the creativity there! We must return. Next time, we’ll go when it’s warm 🙂
I love both to be honest. It was kinda refreshing to see something new.
Well, it can definitely be described as eye catching!
I have seen a bit from New York but I would put the styles in different categories. While Reykjavik is extremely colorful, I would say that NYC has more technical pieces.
We said the same thing until we realized it doesn’t get much warmer… 😛
Yeah, I saw that but thought it was hilarious. Sorry lady. It stays!