Daily Street Art: C215's stencils and new art @ THE WALL!

Published Mar 07 2008, 09:07 PM by Caitlin E. Curran

We're really digging the Parisian artist C215's mosaical, stenciled portraits, which are currently gracing bleak slabs of city concrete across the globe. Stenciling is the old stand-by for street art and graffiti artists, but when it's done with a certain amount of creative vision, not to mention precision, it can be one of the more impacting methods. C215's portraits are pieced together by lines and shapes that feel like years worth of cracks or erosion, and the result is strikingly intimate, in a similar way to Swoon, but with a slightly different style. He's got a whole gigantic slew of his artwork on his MySpace, but we'll give you a sense of what we're talking about, below.

We also found some local stencils worth mentioning, by an unknown artist, and - drumroll, please - there's some new art going up on the Wall in Central Square, which we've gushed about before, and was starting to look a bit tattered due to peeling wheatpasted art, and some not-so visually (but inevitable) interesting defacement. Feast your eyes on the new stuff!

Not in Boston (but everywhere else: New York, Rome, etc.): C215

Above images taken from C215's MySpace.

Photo by shoehorn99.

In Boston (Central Square): Stenciled tourists - who's watching whom?

Photo by sushiesque.

AND new art at the Wall:

March update photos byThe Wall mastermind hargo.

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biter@urbitingstill.com said:

It's still pretty lame that you're ONLY stealing pix off Flickr. Really. Why not blog other peoples' writing, just make sure you include their bylines and post it with no commentary? How is that any different than only using other peoples' photos on your street art "updates"?

March 10, 2008 5:23 AM
Caitlin said:

Well, the problem is that I can't be everywhere in the world to take my own photos - though I wish I could be. I do always credit Flickr photographers, and so far I've only received positive feedback from photographers and street artists whom I've written about or credited for photos. If anyone ever had a problem with me using their photo, I'd happily remove it.

March 10, 2008 9:05 PM

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