Graffiti Tour by Foot: The Bushwick Collective

I got the chance to do a walking tour of the Bushwick Collective on Saturday with www.freetoursbyfoot.com.  The tour lasted about 2hours on foot with a plethora of information on the artists behind the Graffiti in this part of Brooklyn.

I learned the difference between Graffiti and Street Art.  Graffiti is when the artist is creating pieces that are self promoting or personal versus street artists who create pieces that has a message to society.  Both are illegal though but some property owners do tolerate them while others actually commission pieces to be created.

 

 

 

 

 

 Asian tourists in New York?

 

 The Pink Panther was created by a Graffiti artist. 

 Fanakapan

 

This is an example of Street Art.

 

  

This piece was a cross the street from a church.  Almost like

a bunch of little monsters staring at the church...

 

Commissioned and done by the famous twins: How & Noism

This is depicting how migration has the country.

 

 

A female Asian artist: Lady Aiko

 

Commissioned piece by Fanakapan:  King Kong vs Godzilla

 

This one reminded me of Lefteye.

 

Homer+Spongebob

 

Jay Z + I forget who

 

A husband and wife in embrace

 
 

 

 

I'm told Biggy grew up around here.

 

The artist known as Stik was homeless for a bit until he started making stick figure art on roof tops...  He's got a pretty cool story.  Look him up.

 

This one is just awesome.

 

 

Old Dirty Bastard (the rapper's name)

 

Street Art at it's best I'd say.  Favorite piece.

 

For you Star War geeks. 

 

California artist.  Apparently he loves rocks and ice cream...

 

This piece was commissioned by a gallery.

 

Just amazing.

 

 This artist is from Italy.  This piece is so realistic, it's unreal.

I'd definitely recommend this tour if you want some history on Graffiti and Street Art with some awesome current pieces.  I didn't include all of the pieces we saw on the tour so there will be some nice surprises for those of you who decide to check it out.