To say that the street art scene in Athens has mushroomed is an understatement. All over the city, commercial buildings and homes have become visually cluttered with a blend of beautiful artistic murals, cheeky street art, and ugly graffiti. Imagine busy patterned wallpaper that makes you turn your head away.
Don’t get me wrong, I adore Athens and high-quality street art, but enough is enough with the overdose of ugly graffiti. I’m hoping the next fad will be to paint the city white. Below find what I consider the good, the bad, and the ugly examples of street art and graffiti in Athens.
The good:
Artist Yiakou creates “poetic street art” of beautiful girl figures.
Unknown artist.
Unknown artist.
Unknown artist.
Artist Dreyk the Pirate.
Unknown artist.
The bad:
And, the ugly:
Inspiration: Cheeky.
Capturing Moments 
These are good 🙂
Thank you!
Plenty of variety, then!
For sure!
😀
I usually run into the ugly! Must be visiting the wrong parts of Athens…
Sadly, I do too. The good street art is far and few between. I thought Plaka and Monistiraki had a lot of graffiti until we walked through Psiri this past October. I was stunned by the over abundance of graffiti painted on the buildings. There was no white space left to rest my eyes…