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i would say,
USA
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its not really a debatable topic, most people will prefer their countries because they have been around it all the time
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"Most beautiful" is definitely in the eye of the beholder...
Why limit it to just Germany, Japan and USA? I've seen great stuff going on in France, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, etc....
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yup - I can't speak for the whole of Spain, but I've never seen as gorgeous graffiti as in Barcelona - much nicer than NYC or Berlin!
Not to mention the fantastic graff in Bristol and other cities in the UK!
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Yeah, it's tough. I've been around this world and still the best I've ever seen was in Quebec City of all places.
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show me a better than this (germany)
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that's not graffiti it's just someone painting their house
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Barcelona has some of the best graffiti I've ever seen
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Saying which City has the best graffiti is like saying who your favorite graffiti artist is, I like to many to name, I'm From California so I'm around the Los Angeles scene the most, but I like graffiti artists from all over the World... From the San Francisco Bay to Zimbabwe....Besides most well known artists travel the globe and paint in several different cities, are we supposed to give credit only when they paint in they're own cities or what
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it defitinately is the usa...
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Graffitti is by nature, hardly permanent. How about for the moment, not all time... my favorite is Granada, Spain. I live in the U.S, have traveled in North, South America and much of western Europe, but a recent trip to Spain had me all twitchy looking at the cool expressions of art.
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usa and some parts of japan
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none can be more beautiful than others but belgium and holland have some awesome pieces
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@seeitinred!! thats graffiti but quality and yes a complete house or better the complete street but these are graffiti art and not a simply
smearing which you maybe know...
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this from Belfast they have some interesting stuff on the walls there
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 Um, just cuz something is painted with spraypaint doesn't particularly make it graff, and as for seeing your photostream, and reading you compare graff to "smearing" kinda has me agreeing with  .
Also The Comment About it being "Quality" is sorta condescending, which is probably the main reason I don't agree with you. If there was one letter anywhere in that fLIck, maybe, maybe ,maybe someone that writes might agree with you. The fact that there are characters,(Most def Graffiti) that may turn the coin, although this is much more Artsy than Graff-like. Also on this pic in your stream, there isn't one graff artist that calls this Graffiti, although other people who don't seem to be involved with graff do call it that. Well That Is No Proof At All.
Yakity Yak, I'm yappn again: you got awesome fLIcks on your stream regardless!!
And My Vote Is For The USA, probably the E/W coasts
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I agree with 'otherthings'.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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U.S. on walls n' stuff. But Europe on trains.
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the two images in this blog are murals not graffiti. murals typically are commissioned work, while graffiti is not about money. murals can be done during the day with permits. graffiti thrives on not needing permits or boundaries. not everything that is painted on a wall with spray paint can be called graffiti.
graffiti and muralists are both great artists, but one breaks the law. most good graffiti artists who make it big in the art world like banksy, twist (aka barry mcgee), doze green, dalek etc, all become muralist to some degree in the end.
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aye, arts universal, don't think there's a certain place where it's the best... Stuff that loomit's done legally is just as inspiring and creative as his earlier stuff. The difference obviously to when one paints a wall at night vs a commissioned factory building wall for a new nightclub is immense though, being able to paint at day in daylight with scaffolding etc is different to your nightly bomber raid.
But looking at the big names out there most of them do alot of travel and collabs these days, so there imo is really no place that's best, you can find many peoples work in many different countries these days...
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pittsburgh isn't a country but this aint too bad....
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every person have his different way to admire our create good things..
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http://www.modern06.com/bilder/daim.jpg
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This thread is kinda part of the age old where does Graffitti and street art start and stop. After all beauty is in the eye of the beholder! A well placed throw or tag can be very effective all depending on the general enviroment.
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France
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Hi from a "newbie",
I'm of the mind that 'true' graffiti is of the illegal kind, and usually tagged by it's 'artist'. A lot of those aren't very colorful, but of the one's that are, I have to say that there are some gifted artists out there who should channel their obsession into something profitable.
Some do, but of those who don't, they're missing something. I have only 2 pics of 'commissioned' graffiti, where the artists were paid to paint the wall.
As to which country has the most 'beautiful', again it's a personal thing and a point that could be argued about from now 'til Doomsday.
For what it's worth though, I've seen some pretty impressive stuff in Germany, but then, I'm not very widely travelled.
The 2 pics from 'endraum' and 'ifou331' look really impressive and colorful.
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montreal est assez bien pourvu.
je pense que plutot qu en terme
de pays ( trop vaste, trop flou ),
il faudrait résonner en terme
de villes, voire meme d'arrondis-
sements, ou de quartiers !
sorry for having express it in french.
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I think Philidelphia in Pennsylvania in the USA. It can be beautiful, and yet it can be uggy.
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I guess the topic would be more fair if not with those four options only...there's good graff in some many countries that it's hard to say who's best.
Many talk due to his personal experience and living in Portugal I can say we have good quality here. But I guess at this point Spain and France are two of the most active and advanced graff countries in the World.
USA will be always present due to his history...it's quite hard to separate history from the actual scene, but anyway what matters is the amazing growing of the graff culture in every city of any country.
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Roma, in Italy, has the metro full of graffiti, it seems new york in the 70's.
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New to group. Loved graffiti as a child.
The best: the trains of the US, as they move from place to place the graffiti changes, the artists blend with others from states far away. It is moving art, it is flux, it is graffiti.
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the spanish of course....:
www.flickr.com/photos/ludovicbecker/1529975197/
but... maybe the german :
www.flickr.com/photos/ludovicbecker/1530647696/
and belgian... classical but efficient :
www.flickr.com/photos/ludovicbecker/1530258913/
anyway french are not so bad too :
www.flickr.com/photos/ludovicbecker/1148895794/
and portuguese... a little bit artisanal but fun :
www.flickr.com/photos/ludovicbecker/1148055253/
but the best for me is a mix of them thanks to photoshop:
www.flickr.com/photos/ludovicbecker/1514369547/
and you?
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New York city US hands down. It's where it started, perfected and still the most savage burners!
E obsh_cbc
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São Paulo/Brasil:
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well i think U.S.A holds the cup for for( hard to reach places )to get up ,,how many countries have tagged up on the moon ? an when U.S.A goes bombing,, well look the fu@k out !! cause u will see dat sh#t if u looking or not viva la bush ? i mean ,,in death we trust ? god save the green$$?
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE ONE WORLD ONE LOVE
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AN for N.Y was where it started ? i think maybe the first walls to be bombed were the caves an stone faces by our cave men old school crews hehe
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barcelona i say :)
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São Paulo -Brazil
The best!
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Street art artist are in many places, but as far I know in Barcelona we have full of them with an awesome talent!
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Well, I would say eastern Europe, Spain, France and some parts of Greece when it comes to the most creative stuff. This goes for Sao Paolo as well! For trains it has to be Italy. There is not much graffiti in Japan, and the graffiti in germany is not as fresh as it used to be. The US seems stuck in old habits when it comes to the big walls and stuff like that, but the tagging scene (and street-art scene in NY) is quite good. Los Angeles has a fair amount of great graffiti writers as well.
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Barcelona.
Overly simple question. Overly simple answer.
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Melbourne.
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^ Hehe not a country, you mean Australia!! :)
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I can only go on that which I have seen for myself. Eastern Europe seems to have some very talented artists and they seem to have more freedom to write. In Western Europe I’d say the Germans and the Dutch.
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france
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Liam_Lime [deleted] says:
I'd have to say Europe in general. They have better colors available in spray cans! =D
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=) Japan they got skillz ....
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I'm from the US but I saw some amazing graffiti in France a couple years ago.
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Rome
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usa and london,thats where it started ,usa,first the art and later a slide diffirent-style so call graffiti,but if you like what you see than its art for you tste is personal
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Over-Pass [deleted] says:
graff started in ancient times ... i just discovered this ... wikipedia does wonders ..."Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples going back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire" ... check it out ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti ... its pretty whack
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I'm Australian but I would say Holland/Belgium and Spain.
US is nice but there's a lot of really good artists in Europe.
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mexico, brazil, germany, spain, holland, usa, japan,
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+BAZIK+ [deleted] says:
Paris and scotland
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new york brox
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My home city of Melbourne has fantastic street art, but then what of seen of Tokyo and Yokohama was also spectacular. It just depends on what you find and which graff artists have been in that city..
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loving eastern european styles at the moment . but philly handstyles are something else .
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I think a lot of people who think they like "graffiti" have no idea what graffiti is. They actually like murals and maybe the occasional non- threatening wildstyle burner...but only after a couple of glasses of wine.
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its only art after wine ??
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my vote goes for Canada (Montreal in particular).. I've been seeing graffiti in USA, Spain, France, Germany, UK, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Canada, Israel, Japan .. no where as many and so many of these so good as in Montreal....
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Brazil!U.S!France!
I also berlin has some good stuff!
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usa has some nice ones , melbourne has a few also ,
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BraSil
porque aki temos um estilo próprio de graffiti
mais limpo e mais bonito
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the EU
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USA
♥
FOSHO
GRAFFITI IS NOT JUST ANYTHING MADE WITH SPRAY PAINT LIKE THESE PICTURES ALREADY POSTED
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Spain and portugal
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France is the country of many famous painters : Dufy, Picasso, Braque, Manet, Monet …
Her Street art's artists are also well inspired :
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the entire world!
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im gonna say USA but i think Spain has the best graffs in the world :)
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there really isnt one answer to this
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Homie, its either France or Germany Hands down.
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I've seen more and cooler graffiti in Germany while i was visiting ther then here in the USA.
so Germany. =)
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brazil for sure, after spain and france!
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Does Graffiti have to be the same to all?
No! Art is a expression and a expression is not a fact, so what ever you think as Graffiti is, it might as well be art to you.
I would say that the best Graffiti is in the Bronx, USA
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I think there are 3
First of all, I would sau the USA because it's an old graffiti country. Because there are various styles.
Then there are two country with their own styles I like the most . Sweden, ir's a dynamyc moove in their graffiti. Then, last but not least, France is a real graffiti country. It's the country wich made his own style and it's wonderful. For example, lightgraff is owned by the French (even if they didn't create it).
Here are the country I like about graffiti.
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Abolish Beautiful Graffiti
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Yall DO KNOW that there is a difference between "Graffiti" and "Murals"... right?
Because some of yall are just posting pictures of murals that have no relation to Graffiti styles, or done by Graffiti Aritsts.
Like this......
IS NOT GRAFFITI
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And this is not even REAL... I can tell thats a bad PhotoShop job from a mile away
SMH
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Oh and to answe the post question..... USA!!!!!!!! Specificly NY and LA
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I heard Brazil is beyond compare.
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I'm not sure beauty and graffiti necessarily go hand in hand, especially since beauty is a matter of opinion...
Maybe the question we need to be asking is "Which country has the richest/liveliest/most innovative scene?"
And USA (or at least nyc & philly) will always deserve an honorary mention, seeing as how we founded the movement in its present form.
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For those who want to find out more about German Graffiti check out this New York Times Video on youtube
ca.youtube.com/watch?v=pZgDS0pau-Y&NR=1
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L A!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would say USA(Founders), after that Its a Close Race Germany got the FX crew the Originators of 3D, The French are dope, Spanish writers are amazing, Brazil has a Some dope writers, Some of the Best writers are from the Netherlands(The Great Bates and a couple of handful of writers). Even London has had some dope writers in their hay day. The Australians... All these countries are close sedonds and thirds...Too many Dope writers and too vague of a Question...So many styles, techniques, the era you grew up in, all will have an affect on the outcome of this Q.
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i think brazil and spain have some good stuff going on...
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USA
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melbourne...is that a country?
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Switzerland...;-)
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Holland :)
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i think the topic's very subjective. in any case, i think every country's got their fare share of awesome graffiti pieces.
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Berlin
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no country for graffiti!
streetart without borders :)
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