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Artoon (Toon van Ishoven)Toon Van Ishoven is an Antwerp, Belgium based visual artist/designer. He creates murals, paintings, graphic and audiovisual designs. He makes original, free art as well as commissioned pieces. He likes switching between solo-work and teaming-up with theatre directors, writers, choreographers, fellow-artists etc. "Life is a fairground, i like being challenged and getting new ideas by trying out new attractions."
https://streetartcities.com/artists/a...
Breakout
Created on August 10, 2025
Mechelseweg 140, 1880 Kapelle-op-den-Bos, Belgium
Short video of the process:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2338065...
Tinte Rosa”Creativity comes from within, and in our case, we showcase it through the gigantic artistic murals we create around the world 🌍”
Tinte Rosa is a young creative studio with a strong urban character
https://streetartcities.com/artists/t...
Santa Casilda
Created on August 5, 2025
San Agustín, 40, 09200 Miranda de Ebro, Burgos, Spain
Irene Lopez LeonIrene Lopez Leon is a painter and muralist born in Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona. She is known for artworks that blend the figurative and the abstract concepts within a vibrant play of color. Her paintings aim to reinvent classical elements through a contemporary perspective, resulting in a fusion between the traditional and the modern. Her initial forays into painting were on the streets, which led her to experiment with mural art. These paintings explores different themes, from the richness of nature and landscapes, to local customs represented by contemporary still life composed of popular iconography. The fusion of the figurative with the abstract and the handling of color in her works convey a sense of movement, energy and dynamism, giving them a distinctive characteristic that defines her style. Her ability to transition her art from the streets to galleries has enable Irene to actively participate in urban art festivals and exhibitions in different parts of the world, thereby consolidating her career in the art world.
https://streetartcities.com/artists/i...
Breathe
Created on August 14, 2025
Memeler Str. 26A, 45884 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
BKFoxxB. 1988
BKFoxx is a public artist from Long Island NY, an '88 model (as her father says). She paints photorealistic murals in only spray paint; no brushes, no projectors, no stencils. She became interested in street art in 2013, practicing with spray paint in abandoned buildings. She thought it was really powerful to be able to transform an entire place with just paint. And starting with old, rundown walls in New York, she has been invited to paint murals around the world, from France to Sweden to Ukraine.
https://streetartcities.com/artists/b...
Created on August 3, 2025
12 Bd la Fayette, 62100 Calais, France
Dominic LaporteB. 1990
Dominic Laporte is a Canadian, award winning muralist and illustrator whose work blends traditional painting techniques with mixed-media approaches, merging realism and surrealism to create visually striking, dynamic and layered murals. As co-founder of DRIFT Mural Co., alongside Anaïs Labrèque, he specializes in large-scale public art that celebrates local identities, history, and nature. With over a decade of experience, Dominic has completed 100+ murals internationally, collaborating with major institutions such as the Royal Canadian Navy, Adidas, Microsoft, and Street Art Toronto.
https://streetartcities.com/artists/d...
Lost Frequencies
Created on August 14, 2025
2211 Grant St, Bettendorf, IA 52722, USA
Every month I choose a theme and try to post as many different artists as there are days.
This time I won’t keep the theme secret—it’s street art.I recently came across a website that collects street art from around the world, and for August 2025 alone there were more than a hundred nominees for “best of the month.” Visitors could vote for their favorites, and the site features the winner as well as all the nominees. That struck me as an incredible amount of creativity for just one month—proof that street art is really exploding right now.
Most of the works are huge, sometimes stretching across the whole side of an apartment building. Many lean toward the surreal, a few toward abstraction, and all of them are painted under real-life conditions, in whatever weather the artists faced.
I’ve made a selection of thirty pieces that stood out to me, and I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I did.
I did not include the final winner, if you’re curious just hop over to the website:
https://streetartcities.com/awards/20...
You’re welcome to comment on the pictures, respond to other people’s comments, or say whatever you like (as long as it follows the group rules, of course).
There’s just one rule for this thread: only the person running it can post pictures. So please don’t post a picture here. That’s all!
Enjoy!
Johann Walter-Kurau(1869 - 1932)
Johann Walter-Kurau, also known as Jānis Valters (Latvian) or Johann Walter, was a Latvian painter. He studied art at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg with Janis Rozentāls and Vilhelms Purvītis, and built up an oeuvre that ranged from the academic realism of the 1890s, through a style inspired by Impressionism and Expressionism, to the verge of abstraction with a peculiar non-objective vision of nature late in his career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_...
The Market in Jelgava
1897
Oil on canvas
154 x 230 cm
Latvian National Museum of Art, Rīga, Latvia
https://lnmm.gov.lv/en/latvian-nation...
Sybrand van Beest (1610 - 1674)
Sybrand van Beest was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_An...
Hog Market
1638
Oil on canvas
44 x 68 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-col...
Lajos Deák Ébner(1850 - 1934)
Lajos Deák Ébner was a Hungarian painter.
Many of his paintings are realistic portrayals of life around Szolnok. From 1887 to 1922, he was head of the "Budapest School of Painting for Women" (Budapesti Női Festőiskola). In 1890, he and Károly Lotz painted frescoes at Tihany Abbey. From 1895 to 1899 he executed more frescoes at the Kunsthalle Budapest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_D...
Poultry Market in Szolnok
1885
Oil on canvas
132 x 96 cm
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
https://en.mng.hu/artworks/51739/
Francisco Díaz de León(1897 - 1975)
Francisco Díaz de León was a Mexican graphic artist, notable for pioneering much of modern Mexican graphic arts. He spent his childhood around books and when he studied art in Mexico City, he specialized in engraving and illustration. He spent his career illustrating books, magazines and more, reviving techniques such as dry point and introducing new techniques and styles such as the use of color and linoleum printing. He was also a noted arts education, directing several schools including the Escuela Mexicana de las Artes del Libro (now the Escuela Nacional de Artes Gráficas), which he founded. He was a founding member of the Academia de Artes and a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. In 1969 he received the Premio Nacional de Artes for engraving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...
Indians at the Market
1922
Oil on canvas
100 x 122 cm
Reading Public Museum, Reading, United States
https://museoblaisten.com/Obra/1854/I...
Frederic Whitaker(1891 - 1980)
Frederic Whitaker was an American designer, painter and author.
Whitaker was a member of the National Academy of Design, served seven years as president of the American Watercolor Society, and founded Audubon Artists, whose purpose is to speak for all aspects of the visual arts. He also served on numerous other boards and organizations. Whitaker also wrote two books and more than 90 articles on art-related topics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...
The Fruit Market
1969
Watercolor
55.8 x 76.2 cm
The Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation
Syracuse, NY, United States
https://whitakerwatercolors.org/
Theodore Wores 1859 - 1939)
Theodore Wores was an American painter. He was from San Francisco, and travelled extensively including periods in Germany, Japan, Hawaii, and Samoa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor...
The Chinese Fishmonger
1881
Oil on canvas
88.3 × 117 cm
SAAM, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/ch...
Helen McNicoll(1879 - 1915)
Helen Galloway McNicoll RBA was a Canadian impressionist painter. She was one of the most notable women artists in Canada in the early twentieth century and achieved considerable success during her decade-long career. McNicoll played an important role in popularizing Impressionism in Canada, at a time when it was still relatively unknown, with her lively representations of rural landscapes, intimate child subjects and modern female figures. She was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913 and was created an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1914.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_M...
Marketplace
1910
Oil on canvas
63.8 x 77.3 cm
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/hele...
Thomas Shotter (1803- 1874)
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was an English watercolour painter and lithographer.
His most important work, Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc., a collection of colour lithographs, appeared in 1839, attracting a great deal of admiration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
Fish Market, Antwerp
1839
Hand-colored lithograph
27 x 17 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (among others)
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/134272-f...
Nicolaes Maes(1634- 1693)
Nicolaes Maes was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, he returned to work in his native city of Dordrecht for 20 years. In the latter part of his career he returned to Amsterdam where he became the leading portrait painter of his time. Maes contributed to the development of genre painting in the Netherlands and was the most prominent portrait painter working in Amsterdam in the final three decades of the 17th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae...
Vegetable Market
1655
Oil on canvas
71 x 91 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collect...
Robert Bevan(1865- 1925)
Robert Polhill Bevan was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer who was married to the Polish-born artist Stanisława de Karłowska. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
Hay Carts, Cumberland Market
1915
Oil on canvas
47.9 x 61 cm.
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
https://collections.britishart.yale.e...
Aina Onabolu (1882-1963)
Aina Onabolu OBE was a pioneering Nigerian modern arts teacher and painter who was an important figure in the introduction of arts into the curriculum of secondary schools in the country. He promoted the drawing of environmental forms in a verisimilitudinous style and was known for his early modern work in portraiture. Aina is the great-grandfather of Canadian pop singer Joseph Onabolu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aina_On...
Hope
1947
Oil on canvas
Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria
Vicenzo Campi (1530 - 1591)
Vincenzo Campi was a 16th-century Italian painter working in Cremona during the Late Renaissance. Campi is best known as one of the first northern Italian artists to work in the Flemish style of realist genre painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenz...
The Poultry seller
1578 - 1581
Oil on canvas
147 x 215 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
https://pinacotecabrera.org/en/collez...
Alberto Pasini1826–1899)
Alberto Pasini was an Italian painter. He is best known for depicting Orientalist subjects in a late-Romantic style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto...
Horse market, Syria
1893
Oil on canvas
84x 103 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/col...
Jacques-Laurent Agasse(1767 - 1849)
Jacques-Laurent Agasse was an animal and landscape painter from Switzerland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques...
Old Smithfield Market
1824
Oil on canvas
50 × 70 cm
Yale Centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.e...
