New Street Art That Turns Walls Into Worlds (9 Photos, Vol. 39)
By Vidar
Nine new works full of motion, strange characters and bright color
A kingfisher dives through water, a fox rises above flames and a Toy Story-inspired scene stretches across a wall in Italy. These nine new works bring wildlife, portraits and strange characters into motion. Tap Love beneath the works you want to see rise in the ranking.
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🧩 “Destroy This Story” — By MR.BLOB, Davide Smake & Mirko LOSTE Cavallotto in Baronissi, Italy 🇮🇹
The artists call this 2026 collaboration Destroy This Story. The Toy Story-inspired production covers one long wall with characters and tightly packed letterforms.
They painted it at Parco della Rinascita for the 18th edition of OVERLINE GRAFFITI JAM, held July 24–26, 2026.
💡 Nerd Fact: The Library of Congress added Toy Story to the National Film Registry in 2005, ten years after its release—the first year it was old enough to qualify under the Registry’s minimum-age rule.
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🌻 “Joy” — By ZABOU in Maubeuge, France 🇫🇷
Joy is a 20-by-12.5-metre mural at Résidence Vilvorde. The portrait was inspired by a photograph of Noémie, a young local dancer, sharing a dance with her mother.
The work was commissioned by Avesnoise Promocil after ZABOU’s participation in the first edition of Festival Chroma.
💡 Nerd Fact: Young sunflower heads track the sun, but mature heads stop turning and generally face east. East-facing flowers warm sooner in the morning, which promotes pollination and tends to produce larger, heavier seeds.
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🦊 A Fox Above the Flames — By VYRÜS in Campagne-lès-Hesdin, France 🇫🇷
VYRÜS painted it during the Mur Vivant graffiti festival, held August 7–9, 2026, at the MECS–Foyer Les Peupliers. In his post about the work, VYRÜS connects the mural to forest fires, four fallen heroes and thousands of silent lives that will never be counted.
💡 Fire Fact: Wind-blown embers can ignite separate fires more than a kilometre beyond the main flame front, according to France’s ecology ministry.
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🐦 A Swallow Cuts Through the Portrait — By Badi Coloreando & Nesui in Campo Cámara, Granada, Spain 🇪🇸
The artists shared the mural on August 9, 2026 and identified the location as Campo Cámara, Granada. A barn swallow cuts across the layered portrait, its long forked tail and blue-black wings standing out against the loose fields of color.
💡 Nerd Fact: Barn swallows breeding in Spain winter around the Gulf of Guinea. In Andalusia, the first birds normally return in January, with mass arrival beginning in February.
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💦 “The Kingfisher and the Minnow” — By Peachzz in Floda, Sweden 🇸🇪
Peachzz describes The Kingfisher and the Minnow as a river version of cat and mouse. The kingfisher’s dive, the burst of water and the riverside plants use the full height of the building.
Painted at Garverivägen 9 for Lerum Municipality in collaboration with Artscape.
💡 Nerd Fact: Kingfisher vision shifts between two foveae as the bird enters the water, giving it sharp vision at the last moment before it seizes its prey.
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🥽 Fluorescent Red Goggles — By CISE in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸
CISE gives the helmeted black-and-grey portrait fluorescent red goggles and an orange halo, with a cigarette held between the figure’s fingers. CISE shared the piece on August 9, 2026, from a studio in Madrid, tagging Zane1 and ZZ Rock.
💡 Paint Fact: Daylight-fluorescent colorants absorb light at one wavelength and re-emit it at longer wavelengths. That emitted light combines with reflected light, so measured reflectance can exceed 100 percent.
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🦞 “Memorias de un Grillo Blanco” — By Matías Mata (Sabotaje al Montaje) in Punta Mujeres, Lanzarote, Spain 🇪🇸
The mural depicts the jameíto (Munidopsis polymorpha), a tiny cave-dwelling crustacean endemic to Lanzarote and often described as blind. Matías Mata, better known as Sabotaje al Montaje, based the work on a photograph by Cristina Camacho and shared the finished mural in a reel.
💡 Nerd Fact: A 2022 anatomical study found that the jameíto’s rudimentary eyes remain partly functional and can still detect light. The species still shows negative phototaxis—movement away from light.
The mural was unveiled on August 8, 2026 as part of the Memorias de un Grillo Blanco festival. It covers the white wall opposite Restaurante El Palenke on Calle las Salinas.
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🦋 A Portrait in Motion — By Filite in Uberlândia, Brazil 🇧🇷
A woman’s face emerges through sweeping blue and white brushwork, with a blue butterfly crossing her cheek and eye.
💡 Nerd Fact: The 2026 Jardim Urbano festival brought together 60 artists to paint more than 3,000 square metres across five new blocks, extending Beco do Planalto’s mural corridor to ten blocks.
Filite shared the finished mural from the sixth Jardim Urbano festival, held August 1–2, 2026, at Beco do Planalto in Uberlândia.
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⛏️ A Mine Cart Through the Cavern — By Enots Graff in Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur, France 🇫🇷
A grinning cartoon miner races through a glowing yellow-and-purple cavern in a mine cart, pickaxe raised as a bat swoops alongside the track.
💡 Nerd Fact: The work covers an electrical transformer on Rue des Artisans. The work was created through a partnership between Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur and Parc Évasion, which contributed funding.
Photo by Startape PhotoGraff.
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9 works in 5 countries, from Baronissi, Italy to Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur, France. Pick a photo to see the work.
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