Street Artist Alice Pasquini On The Magic Of Creating Art In Public Spaces

I have an academic background in art, and that's part of the reason I decided to get out into the streets. "Art died with Duchamp, forget about drawing" -- that's what my professors taught me and that's why I wanted to get out of the studio and the academy. I wanted to find a stronger artistic potential: on the streets, I'm able to provoke a reaction in people and in the environment.

I am interested in representing emotions, in a narrative style of art. I want to create works of art that are universal and timeless. I paint moments of everyday life: moments that represent life's magic. I am sure that the real key to life is the way we choose to live every single moment.

One day I found out that there was one art form that particularly interested me -- the art form of living, three-dimensional people who interact with their environment. I was drawn to street art, even if I do not like the term very much, because I wanted to place my art in a dynamic environment.

A work of art is inseparable from the space where it's located. I use the color of a wall or a natural frame to embed my works in the environment.

As an artist who works outside, you always have one problem: you work someplace which isn't your own, where you don't live and to which you may not even return. What you do should be artistically or politically important. But it is not a given that it will be a positive for the people who have to live with it every day. This is a risk I take with my form of art.

Moscow, Russia 2014 - Photo Alice Pasquini

Rochester, New York 2014 - Photo Alice Pasquini

Cles, Italy 2014 - Photo Jessica Stewart

Salerno, Italy 2014 - Photo Alice Pasquini

Madrid, Spain 2013 - Foto Alice Pasquini

Brest, France 2013 - Foto Alice Pasquini

Berlin, Germany - 2014 Photo Jessica Stewart

Dortmund, Germany 2013 - Photo 44309 Street Art Gallery

Fogo, Cape Verde 2014 - Photo Alice Pasquini

Jakarta, Indonesia 2013 - Foto Jessica Stewart

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Geometric Animal Street Art By Dzia Brings Life To Abandoned Urban Areas

  by Julija K.

Dzia, a street artist from Belgium, started to paint murals just two and a half years ago, and he is already widely known for his incredibly detailed animal street art pieces. His signature style uses bold geometric lines, that make his work pop out even more, especially if he paints in abandoned areas. Dzia mainly works in his hometown of Antwerp, though some of his pieces can be seen in other European cities.

As of now,his work is acknowledged all over Europe. 

“After I graduated I really wanted place my artwork onto walls. I focused on creating a truly unique graphic style, using abstract and geometric lines to implement into animalistic forms”, Dzia writes on his website.

If you liked his detailed street art pieces, be sure to visit his page for more.

28 Brilliant Works Of Literary Graffiti

From Animal Farm to Slaughterhouse-Five.

Daniel Dalton BuzzFeed Staff

1. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll. London, UK.

2. Generation of Swine – Hunter S. Thompson. Brooklyn, NY.

3. Samuel Beckett – Camden, London.

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4. Animal Farm – George Orwell. Singapore.

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5. Catch–22 – Joseph Heller. Copenhagen, Denmark.

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6. Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut. Melbourne, Australia.

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7. Howl, Parts I & II – Allen Ginsberg. Boulder, CO.

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8. 1984 – George Orwell. Swansea, Wales.

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9. Watership Down – Richard Adams. Virginia, US.

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10. Homage to The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger. San Francisco, CA.

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11. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood.

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12. The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell – William Blake. Sydney, Australia.

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13. Voltaire. Prague, Czech Republic.

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“Love, of all passions, is the strongest, because it addresses both the head, heart and body.”

14. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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15. Macbeth – William Shakespeare. Brisbane, Australia.

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16. The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger. Ann Arbor, MI.

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17. Life doesn’t frighten me – Maya Angelou. London, UK.

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18. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien.

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19. The Crying Of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon. New York. NY.

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20. I’m Nobody! Who are you? – Emily Dickinson.

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21. She Walks In Beauty – Lord Byron. London, UK.

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22. A Dream Within a Dream – Edgar Allan Poe. London, UK.

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23. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut.

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24. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling.

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The entire first chapter written on a school bathroom stall.

25. The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps – Charles Bukowski. Tbilisi, Georgia.

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26. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Newcastle, UK.

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27. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 – Hunter S. Thompson. Vantaa, Finland.

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28. Charles Dickens. South Bank, London.

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