'Guerilla artist' Banksy's meteoric rise to fame illustrates how attitudes to 'graffiti' have changed. The new British icon, who would once have been labelled as a vandal, has sold street style pieces at auction for over £1 million.Check out the wonderful works by today's creative geniuses...
The 250 square metre, giant 3D fissure created by Edgar Mueller in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland took five days to paint with the artist working solidly from sunrise to sunset. Created for the town's "Festival of World Culture", Mueller's jaw-dropping crevasse gave the hundreds of strollers on the prom chills.
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A cracking idea
The 250 square metre, giant 3D fissure created by Edgar Mueller in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland took five days to paint with the artist working solidly from sunrise to sunset. Created for the town's "Festival of World Culture", Mueller's jaw-dropping crevasse gave the hundreds of strollers on the prom chills.
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Wall hanging
Created by the infamous and elusive Banksy, this comical piece appeared, as with the majority of most of the 'guerilla artist's' pieces, magically over-night. With his wonderfully mysterious ways, he keeps us hanging on his every move.
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Phat tarmac
Striking again at the Moose Jaw Prairie Arts Festival in Saskatchewan, Canada, Edgar Mueller transforms a humdrum highway into a three-dimensional spectacle.
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Big Brother Banksy
Concerned with public privacy and issues surrounding freedom of speech, Banksy voiced his worries for Britain's future through this piece of artwork above a Post Office yard in Newman Street near Oxford Circus, London.
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Airborne art
Edgar Mueller creates what appears to be an exciting underground town on the streets of Berlin featuring a chopper and stunt men. It looks far more exciting than the day to day city life taking place above it - perhaps art doesn't reflect life after all.
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Clever creations
Master of conveying important social messages to the masses, Banksy painted 'The Mild Mild West' on the side of a building, chosen apparently at random, on Cheltenham Road, Bristol in 2007.
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Wall of fame
Brightening up an austere concrete space, Banksy depicts a playful image on the contrastingly serious and political background of the Palestinian border.
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Apocalypse avenue
The German town of Geldern was transformed into Edgar Mueller's fiery vision of Armageddon for the 30th anniversary of the international competition of street painters yet, despite the image of hell in their midst the residents remain characteristically stoic.
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Creativity from conflict
This giant painting covering the entire side wall of a terrace of town houses depicts 'Operation Motorman', the British Army invasion of Bogside, Northern Ireland in 1971. The mural is one of a series painted by the Bogside Artists in remembrance of key moments in the Northern Ireland conflict.
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Picturesque platforms
The daily commute is usually a bore and a bind but train travellers on their route to the office were perked up by a clever creation from street artist Kurt Wenner at Waterloo station, promoting the new Sky HD service.
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