Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
STREET ART STYLE
Street art is a style created for city walls, subway trains and other public spaces. Sometimes it is commissioned, yet most often it is an individual statement of defiant free expression. Although mostly an urban style, street art can be found all over the world, including JR’s pasted portraits on the separation wall in Palestine, Invader’s playful ceramic tile mosaics in Paris and the provocative stencil and spray-paint works by Banksy in London.
The Philadelphia-based Cornbread — aka Darryl McCray — is considered the first modern graffiti artist. He began tagging his name around the city in the 1960s. Graffiti art later flourished in New York City in the 1970s. There, young artists used spray paint and markers to create tags and large-scale graphic works, with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring both developing their distinctive styles through the graffiti scene, which would evolve into street art. Artists such as Tracy 168 and Lady Pink pioneered the Wild Style of complex graffiti writing in the 1980s, pushing the movement forward.
Because of its unsanctioned, improvisational and frequently covert nature, street art involves a range of techniques and aesthetics. Some street artists use quick and effective stenciling, whereas others wheat-paste posters, commandeer video projectors or freehand draw elaborate illustrations and murals. Shepard Fairey made his mark with street art stickers before designing the iconic “Hope” poster for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
While the origins of street art are rooted in a strictly noncommercial creative act that confronted political issues, sexuality and more for a general audience of passersby, the art form has moved inside the galleries over the years. Today, just as Basquiat and Haring took their works from Manhattan’s Lower East Side alleyways into Soho galleries, artists including KAWS, Barry McGee and Osgemeos are in demand with collectors of fine art.
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Style: Street Art
Contemporary Asian Cartoon Fantasy Art Mixed Media Drawing Tang Wei Hsu Anime
Located in Surfside, FL
Tang-Wei Hsu (1980 born in Changhua, Taiwan) obtained a BA in Architecture at the Shih Chien University and finished an MFA in Visual Arts at the Tainan National University of the Ar...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Blade Graffiti art 1992 (Blade train drawing Blade king of graffiti)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
BLADE subway graffiti drawing 1992:
A stunning, highly collectible original work from Blade - King of Graffiti. Executed in 1992, the work was created ...
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1990s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Blade Graffiti art (Blade drawing Blade tag)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
BLADE graffiti drawing:
A classic graffiti tag from Blade - King of Graffiti. Executed circa late 1980s or early the 1990s, the work features a classic Blade Tag in marker, alongside...
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1990s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
UNIQUE Drawings on Everything is Shit Except You Love (How We Met is Our Story)
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Powers
Everything is Shit Except You Love (How We Met is Our Story), with unique drawings, 2017
Original graphite drawings on screen print in four colors on 335 gsm Coventry rag paper
Pencil signed, numbered 2/100 and with unique pencil drawings and annotations by the artist
12 x 12 inches
Unframed
Here, the artist has taken one of his most iconic and popular silkscreens "Everything is Shit Except You Love", and added unique, original drawings and text annotations - telling a charming and unique story ideal for any couple's bedroom, living room or dining room. This drawing depicts the image of a pencil, in the midst of writing, with the text "How we met is our story" - and an image of coffee and croissants. There are also stacks of $$ bills, with the commentary "it all evens out", and perhaps most charmingly, the artist has numbered the work 2/50 -- then corrected it to number 2/100, with the annotation "Sorry, wrong number."
So, while the published edition of this work is 2/100, the epiphanies, drawings, and text commentary make it entirely unique - and quite romantic too.
About Stephen Powers
A Fulbright scholar who has been awarded many public commissions and exhibited in major institutions like the Brooklyn Museum.... Born and raised in Philadelphia’s Overbrook neighborhood, Stephen Powers (b. 1968, Philadelphia) moved to New York in 1994, where he gained attention as the publisher of On the Go magazine and the author of the graffiti history The Art of Getting Over. In 1997, Powers undertook an ambitious and far-reaching graffiti campaign of his own, using the official-sounding acronym ESPO (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach) to deflect attention from the illegality of his activities. By 1999, he had covered dozens of storefront grates with giant silver block lettering. Powers gave up street graffiti the following year to concentrate on studio-based projects.
Powers’s work typically fuses word and image in paintings and graphics that evoke the bright look of a handmade bodega and fairground...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite, Screen, Pencil
Stranger - textural pastel color abstract painting on paper street art inspired
Located in New York, NY
David Fredrik Moussallem’s mixed-media abstract paintings tell different “stories from the streets” and respond to urban landscape. His palette is soft, mainly using white, beige an...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Pylons - textural pastel color abstract painting on paper street art inspired
Located in New York, NY
David Fredrik Moussallem’s mixed-media abstract paintings tell different “stories from the streets” and respond to urban landscape. His palette is soft, mainly using white, beige an...
Category
2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Breathing - textural blue and white abstract painting on paper framed
Located in New York, NY
David Fredrik Moussallem’s mixed-media abstract paintings tell different “stories from the streets” and respond to urban landscape. His palette is soft, mainly using white, beige an...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
No room for squares - post graffiti street art pastel drawing on vinyl record
By Lionel Pratt
Located in New York, NY
French Artist Lionel Pratt is a post graffiti / street art artist whose work is inspired by memories from his childhood, his passion for jazz music and his love for urban life. His mixed media paintings resemble elementary school blackboards...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Oil Pastel
Spray Paint/Graffiti/Street Art/Pop_John "CRASH" Matos, Urban Odyssey
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
John CRASH Matos
"Urban Odyssey (4 Panels)"
Watercolor, Spray Paint and Ink on Arches Paper
34.5 x 85.5 inches, Framed
Born John Matos in 1961, CRASH was raised in the Bronx, New Yo...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blade Graffiti drawings: set of 2 works (Blade king of graffiti)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
BLADE graffiti drawings: set of 2 works:
A set of 2 rare drawings from Blade - King of Graffiti circa late 1980’s or early 1990’s. Here the artist playfully fakes his own death, ‘RIP...
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1990s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Diary of a Mad Man
By Flore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Christopher "Flore" Florentino
Diary of a Mad Man, 2024
Signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas, framed
80 x 90 inches
This piece is unique
Currently on display at Art Angels in Los ...
Category
2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Super Fearless
By Flore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Christopher "Flore" Florentino
Super Fearless, 2024
Signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas, framed
40 x 60 inches
This piece is unique
Currently on display at Art Angels in Los Ange...
Category
2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pull Your Wires Out
By Flore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Christopher "Flore" Florentino
Pull Your Wires Out, 2024
Signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas, framed
70 x 80 inches
This piece is unique
Currently on display at Art Angels in Los...
Category
2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Quentin Road
By Flore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Christopher "Flore" Florentino
Quentin Road, 2024
Signed by the artist
Acrylic on canvas, framed
60 x 40 inches
This piece is unique
Currently on display at Art Angels in Los Angele...
Category
2010s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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Street Art abstract drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Street Art abstract drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including KAWS, Jonone, David Fredrik Moussallem, and Lionel Pratt. Frequently made by artists working with Pen, and Mixed Media and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Street Art abstract drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 8.75 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $416 and tops out at $20,000, while the average work sells for $2,500.