Top-notch portraits, famous quotes, famous characters and the simplest, but unexcelled like "Dzaba ste krecili" (You've painted for nothing) - graffiti are all around us. You need to lift your head, put your phone into your pocket or bag and walk through the city.
Everything is drawn - domestic and foreign celebrities, animals, verses, love messages, fictional characters. When professionals notice an empty space for their art, a common facade becomes an attraction over night. Often they are drawn as a mark of respect for someone. The latest graffito like this is dedicated to Novak Djokovic, and is located in Bezanijska kosa.
Authors in Novi Beograd's blocks, but also in Vracar, Dorcol and along Savamala were representatives of Belgrade underground that painted graffiti on buildings, under bridges, streets with rap music at night. The oldschool style of drawing graffiti was created. Thick, interwoven letters with sharp and distorted edges that are hard to read are features of this style. It is rare that graffiti from this time have been preserved, but today, there are artists who draw using only this technique.
The street art pattern took over streets and walls around 2000. World trend - aphorism or reflected illustration is popular at the moment. All major cities have their own mice and rats. You see Belgrade rats on the walls - cool mouse in a sweatshirt, on a skateboard, with a cigar and a bottle of some drink. Large-format graffiti are the work of those who can freely be called muralists. Belgrade has some very good ones. It is not hard to find them. Especially if you play the "Ingress" game. Then all graffiti in Belgrade are well known to you.
The problem with graffiti is that the walls are being painted, often they crumble, so if you have not taken photo or recorded a masterpiece, it remains as a story for telling what was once there. The good thing about graffiti is that every time one is gone, ten new, even more crazy ones are created.
Graffiti in Belgrade went further than official arts by their popularity and the speed of comments. However, there are still some beautiful statements of love, clean and pure as only children know how to draw. For those who like powerful comments, the combination of picture and words on Belgrade streets can be described with a single phrase in the modern Serbian slang: Brat objasnio! (Brother explained!) Although, there are also sisters, many good graffiti masters.
