It’s one of the few things on offer free, decidedly not for sale. It is so much art for art’s sake that the artist Invader of Paris, France — who creates his work using mosaic tile — switched to tile that breaks apart if you try and prise it out of the wall, because he didn’t want his work owned or sold.
Street art — the subversive, anonymous kind — is meant to make you stop, think, re-evaluate. In Bogotá, Colombia, the artist who goes by Stinkfish has become known for taking photographs of strangers, blowing them up, stencilling them onto walls and splashing vivid colours on them to make them stand out. He’s drawing your attention away not from other street art but from the vapidness of billboards and hoardings, the faces famous for being pretty or blown up to giant size because they’re pretty famous.
Guarding anonymity is hard when every passerby is armed with a camera. So Rebel Bear paints in a pink bear suit. Invader wears playful Halloween…
