You’ll find below five major large scale artworks created in Paris by ones of the world’s most famous street artists.
#1 - Frank "Shepard Fairey" - Révolution-2 (june 2012)
Shepard Fairey, a.k.a Obey, was born in 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina in the United States. He became internationally famous after the 2008 campaign’s poster “Hope” of Barack Obama. This fresco is 40 meters high.
(Photography by ©SimplyFranceTours, September 2017.)
#2 - Dean Stockton alias "D*Face" - Love won’t tear us apart (April 2017)
Dean Stockton a.k.a D*Face was born in 1978 in London. His work is characteristic and influenced by pop art, remembering Andy Warhol or Roy lichtenstein. (Photography by ©SimplyFranceTours, September 2017.)
#3 - FAILE - Et j'ai retenu mon souffle (june 2016)
Faile is the collaboration between Patrick McNeil (born in 1975 in Alberta, Canada) and Patrick Miller (born in 1976 in Minnesota, US). The name “Faile” is an anagram of their first project “A life”, created with the filmmaker Aiko Nakagawa (born 1975, Tokyo, JP), who left the group in 2006. They now live and work in Brooklyn.
(Photography by ©SimplyFranceTours, September 2017.)
#4 - C215 - Chat (april 2013)
Christian Guémy a.k.a C215 was born in 1973 in Ile de France. He draws, paints, and makes stencils. His favourite artworks are human portraits and animals. (On top of the cat you can see a second artwork of Shepard Fairey, a.k.a Obey, “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”).
(Photography by ©SimplyFranceTours, September 2017.)
#5 - Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada - Portrait (October 2015)
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada was born in Cuba in 1966, was raised in the United States, and lives now in Spain (Barcelona). He mainly creates artworks in urban spaces on a large scale. This mural is a portrait of Jorge’s wife, Ana.
(Photography by ©SimplyFranceTours, September 2017.)
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