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Street Icons: The Most Famous Graffiti Artists in the World

Their nicknames are well-known to everyone who is into street graffiti art subculture, but they cover their faces and prefer to create masterpieces in shadows, avoiding fame but not the graffiti fans' respect. The talk is about the world's most famous graffiti artists. If you have just started to get to know the real underground art of street graffiti you are to learn the following names as true legends in this subculture.

Start from exploring the stunning artwork by the female graffiti artist known as Swoon. Her stylish paper cutouts and wheatpasted prints all over the Big Apple made her recognizable in the late 90's. Being of not numerous female graffiti artists this lady definitely deserves the right to be called the best one equally with male graffiti painters. You can see her works in most public art galleries of New York.

Get to know closer the unique style of the graffiti art's grandfather- Michael Tracy, aka TRACY168. He began to create his street art in a unique Wildstyle way back to the early 70's and even nowadays continues to surprise more progressive young artists with.

Banksy. A mysterious legend of graffiti art of our days. A riot spirit with a recognizable stencil-based art style left his prints all over the world staying anonymous and satirical making laugh at contemporary politicians, massive pop culture and the war policy. His early works can be found in the streets of southern English towns where he started to develop as a graffiti artist. Right he owns few solo art galleries and have already published few books about his life and artwork.

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