The One Coloring Book That Belongs in A Museum
Popular Street Art from Around the World Makes Its Way to The Ultimate Street Art Coloring Book
Street art and urban art have become increasingly popular in the last couple of decades. Urban art emerges from the city life, inspired by the community, architecture, and lifestyle. It’s often displayed in public spaces such as parks, walls, bridges, often combining street art and graffiti. The lines in the urban art world have been blurring and artists whose works were only seeing on the walls of abandoned buildings, exhibit to thousands or millions of people in galleries and museums across the world now. Grafitti artists who only tagged the streets are crossing over to the fine arts. Conversely, traditional artists are also crossing over and painting on walls from Tokyo to New York, letting their creativity be seeing outside museums, galleries or private collections.
Street art, which can be found in virtually any metropolis of the world, alongside galleries and contemporary museums, is now available in a portable medium now: in the form of a gorgeous adult coloring book. More than one hundred of the best street artists in the world, who have exhibited in museums or painted in the streets, came together in a coloring book worthy of a museum collection. It features murals from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, from Canada to Jordan, Mexico, and Australia, to Miami, and Manhattan.
Some of the murals turned into coloring pages include the artwork of legendary street artists Kenny Scharf, D*Face, Vhils, Ron English, Cryptik, Elle, Saner, Crash, The London Police, Case, Fin DAC, Meres, Daleast, Icy And Sot, Sego, Kashink, Vexta, Beau Stanton, Daze and a many others. The book includes the work of bona fide street artists who have been in the scene for decades such as Lady Pink, one of the pioneer females in the graffiti subculture of the 1980s to Kenny Scharf who was a part of the 1980s East Village Art movement along with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
The works of such street artists, the likes of Vhils, D*Face, and eL Seed have exhibited in museums from Lisbon to Beijing, from Germany’s MUCA to Spain’s CAC of Malaga to The Qatar Museum. Urban art is present in contemporary art institutions from California to New York in the form of installations, paintings, and even specially commissioned collections.
Every Page Is, Literally, A Piece of Art
Street art aficionados would appreciate the hardcover adult coloring book. Every page is, literally, a piece of art—actually, 100 pieces. The pages are perforated, so they can be removed and exhibited individually for the ones who like to color and show their results. At ten inches by ten inches, the book stands out. It’s a large-format hardcover book with 140 high-quality woodfree paper pages. Ideal for a coffee table to impress your guests or to complement your art collection—or better yet, to start one with this book. A full-color directory with pictures of the murals in the coloring pages, along with information and bios on the featured artists, is included.
The book is part of a series of socially responsible premium coloring books featuring urban art with the mission to spread the appreciation for street art. What this book is doing is sharing the works of muralists who by nature tend to be temporary, in a medium that is permanent and interactive. Thanks to this book owners can color the murals and get to know the artists more intimately. In addition to that, the organization behind this coloring book donates one textbook for every book sold to children in need around the world. No other book publisher has attempted to do such a comprehensive work of art combining the arts, with the popular coloring trend, and the noble mission of giving back.
Check out The Ultimate Street Art Coloring Book here.
