"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker
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"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker
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Artsology visited San Francisco in the summer of 2011, and took the following pictures as documentation of the street art and graffiti seen throughout the city. The streets of San Francisco are filled with visual imagery, everything from murals to stencil graffiti and wheat-pasted posters.
This first group of pictures were all street art images found in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. As you can see here, it ranges from fantasy images (above left) to abstraction (above right), with a good dose of local imagery (seen below), including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Alcatraz, among others.
These 2 murals below were found on Lombard Street near Columbus, and appear to be the work of 2 different artists, or at least the style of both is different enough to suggest that they're not by the same artist. Your guess is as good as mine as to what exactly the two naked people are doing in the left mural ... spreading seeds? Wiping dirt off of their hands? I don't know, but they do both have funky green hair!
We've shown murals for the most part so far, but as you can see from the examples below, smaller works of graffiti and street art are sprinkled in plenty of places throughout San Francisco.
We like the simple graphic style of the hip-hop bird, below left. The "angry rabbit" graffiti below right is by a Belgian artist who goes by the name "ROA." According to one website we found, ROA always seeks permission before creating his graffiti art, discovering that many building owners see these large paintings as a way to turn their buildings into local landmarks.
Having so much street art and graffiti throughout San Francisco made walking the streets and exploring the city a very entertaining visual feast!
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