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In addition to street art, Invader creates two- and three-dimensional works out of Rubik's Cubes in a style he calls Rubikcubism.Many different graffiti tags painted in a vehicle in Madrid, Spain

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Invader has also created QR code mosaics out of black-and-like tiles that can be decoded with a smartphone app, (one such message read, “This is an invasion”). Since then, he's taken his “invasions,” as he calls his street art forays, worldwide to cities such as Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Manchester, Bilbao and New York, where he created a six-foot-tall image of Joey Ramone in 2015. The French capital is also where he first began to mount his mosaics on the sides of building in the 1990s. Although Invader works incognito, it's known that his real name is Franck Slama and that he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Inspired by the video games he played as a youngster during the 1970s and ’80s, Invader creates mosaic images out of tiles to recall the eight-bit pixels of early computer graphics-most especially, his signature motif: The Pac-Man-like alien featured in the video game classic, Space Invaders (from which the artist also takes his name).

This in turn has generated collector interest in other street artist-a phenomenon that has come to be known as the “Banksy effect.”Īlthough street art is usually associated with spray paint, the French artist working under the pseudonym Invader uses a very different material: Ceramic tile. Needless to say, Banksy’s notoriety has served him well on the art market, where his work has sold in the high six-figures. In 2010, he directed the film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, the story of a French emigré obsessed with street art in 2015, he opened an amusement-park/installation piece called Dismaland, which closed after a month. Toward the end of the decade, he began to spray paint stenciled images that mixed pop-cultural references and subversive political themes on walls and bridges around Bristol and London (he has since gone world-wide). The British artist, political activist and filmmaker emerged in Bristol as part of a underground art and music scene during the early- to mid-1990s. Though Shepard Fairey is world-famous, Banksy is arguably more so, which is remarkable given that he works anonymously (though his real name is rumored to be Robin Gunningham).

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Recommended: Full guide to seeing art in NYC Who knows, after being captivated by such mind-blowing work, you may find yourself itching to try your hand at developing your own tag or decorating that empty wall with a cheeky mural. So get out there, get inspired and pay your respects to these famous street artists. However, given the fleeting nature of street art, it’s hard to be confident that these works will stand the test of time and last forever. This partially explains why some of the planet’s most esteemed museums and institutions have hosted career retrospectives by some of the street art world’s biggest names. Unlike other forms of art, street art often results from unpredictable conditions and improvised workspaces, making it all the more impressive. But that doesn’t mean these masters’ best works can only be found at museums and in private collections, as countless incredible works remain on display in their natural settings, out in the public domain. And of course some of the art world’s biggest names (with the auction prices to match) now come from the world of street art. More and more cities are encouraging famous street artists to visit and leave their mark as a way to breathe new life into forgotten neighborhoods. In New York and elsewhere, street art has become an attraction as a host of cities offer their own developed street art trails for visitors to explore. Whereas street art was once looked down upon, back when it was commonly known as graffiti and viewed as a nuisance, it has now become a desireable art form. Art lovers around the world have come to appreciate the wonders of world-class street art.

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