20 Of the Best Mural Artists in the World

In this article, I’ve gathered the testimonies of 20 travelers who are passionate about street art. They will guide you through the artwork of some of the best mural artists in the world.

These street artists are women and men whose work everyone can enjoy for free, and who have imprinted their ideas on the walls of our cities. Their art reminds us that everything we have built around us is ultimately a reflection of who we are and that we need to take responsibility for the life we create for ourselves and others.

20 of the best street mural artists in the world

While we stroll through the streets featuring some of the most spectacular murals in the world, you also get to learn a little about the artists. You’ll find out their names, styles, and the themes they most frequently deal with. And, of course, in which places we can admire the works of the world’s most brilliant mural artists.

BLU – Famous Mural Artists of the World

by Lisa of Travel Connect Experience

Blu is a prolific Italian mural artist active in different parts of Italy and around the world. The artist prefers his identity to remain private.

Blu’s works have been animating Italian cities’ streets since the late 1990s. Originally from the Marche region, he has traveled Italy from north to south with his murales. In particular, he has marked the history of street art in Rome.

He prefers to use brushes and rollers for his walls, although he has used sprays in the past. Blu’s art is characterized by a complex figuration that glues the eye to the wall, to follow its speech, even if sometimes this action involves swallowing a bitter pill.

His murals are magnifying glasses on the human condition and involve the whole of society. Impossible to be in front of one of these works and not reflect, not sigh. The focus is on human small-mindedness, on how much society focuses on superficial and selfish values. The deepest values seem to have disappeared: justice, dignity, brotherhood, and sharing.

One of his walls in Rome is “Capita“, which in Italian means “it happens”, but is also the first part of the word “capitalism”. A tangle of slides like those in a water playground stretches from the top to the bottom of a building; most of the human figures land in a filthy puddle, while a few others get to a crystal-clear pool full of comforts.