Roa
Roa is a well-known street artist
from Ghent in Belgium. Although his street art gets a lot of attention Roa is
really mysterious and not much is known about him or his life. He has visited
many countries to print his mark on murals around the world. These include
London, New York, Berlin, Warsaw, Madrid, Moscow, Los Angeles, Mexico City and
Paris. Roa has his own opinion about graffiti he says this in an interview with
Street Art London: “graffiti is one of the most free art expressions of the
world; you don’t do it for money nor for an institution, its free expression
and it liberates yourself creatively from a lot of restrictions”.
Roa’s art is based on large animal
paintings mainly using black and white. Roa says that since he was a kid he
used to love to draw animals and also wanted to become an archaeologist. He
remembers bringing home little bird skulls to draw. He loved to feel the
excitement and adventure. With his street art career he started off by spray
painting his animals under bridges and abandoned warehouses to experiment with
different lines and elements.
His main inspiration to creating such
highly detailed animal art is at natural history museums where his ideas and
thoughts are conflicted with the history of animal species. His love for music,
more in particular hip-hop got his attention to the graffiti world and he was
curious to give it a try.
You would think that drawing huge scale animals on walls would get boring
in time but Roa confirms that this statement is untrue because every wall,
environment and surroundings are different and the challenge to create
something new and exciting is always there. Roa wants his art to be remembered
and to inspire people to be creative. He wants people to get involved with
planet earth and the species in it.
I personally love Roa’s work; I think his ideas with the animals are just
fantastic. The detail he puts into it is just amazing. The time he took to discover
himself as an artist and the time he put into perfecting his work has led him
to this great result. He really is a great artist and his style is unique and
different from all other artists in the world. He has his own technique to creating
these great works of art. He starts it with black lines and in time the animal
starts to get shape. I particularly love the way his animals painting end up
looking like. They are so realistic and cool but still kept with a hint of modernism.
In my opinion he is one of the best street artists out there right now.
Useful websites: All
visited on 29/09/2014.
http://streetartlondon.co.uk/artists/roa/
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