![]() ![]() There's this one: "I am in love with a girl who breaks my heart daily. Once you start noticing WRDSMTH's wheatpastes and stencils filled with nuggets of wisdom and humor from typewriters, you'll begin to see them everywhere (until they get taken down). "I always find it useful to paint something bashy on the side of places I stay, it helps me find them when I'm aimlessly wondering home blind drunk," " alongside the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, and a set ofĪcross the side of the Line hotel in Koreatown. And over the past year, he also painted " Last month he put up his "Love Trap" mural (see above) on a brick building in East Hollywood just above Bicycle Coffee. His murals have tongue-in-cheek humor and pay homage to Roy Lichtenstein's comic strip-like art. (AKA Dean Stockton) occasionally pops into Los Angeles to grace us with his work. ![]() As always, feel free to share your favorites in the comments. It's the impermanent nature of street art, but luckily we have some photos of them for posterity. Some of them are still up if you can find them and some have been taken down. Here are our favorite pieces of street art that have popped up in Los Angeles over the last year. ), Erin Mitchell of Lost Angeles Street Art ( LAist consulted with some folks with expert knowledge on the street art scene for this story: Fredrik Lidskog of Impermanent Art ( And then there are the ones with short lifespans like WRDSMITH's wheatpastes with typewriter notes of inspiration and Pablo Delgado's tiny, tiny murals of people popping up where you least expect them. Some of them are colorful portrait murals from the likes of Tristan Eaton and pop art from England's D*Face. In downtown L.A., there are some newer ones over the last year that have caught our attention. While we have some huge stunners that have been put up over the past few years (and are still standing!) from artists like The street art scene in Los Angeles has blown up-so much so that artists from around the world feel compelled to visit and leave their mark on the city. ![]()
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