other Naples urban art

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There was far too much interesting graffiti and urban art seen in Naples to squeeze it all into one post. I have posted some previously and this post attempts to “finish” what I have from February 2024 – before I go back to Naples. Most of these images were taken while exploring the streets of the Spanish Quarter (Quartieri Spagnoli)

below: Electric! … but unplugged.

street art mural of an electric cord and plug lying on the ground

below: La Ditta Fortunato (The Lucky Company)

street art, shades of grey, a man with a sign La Ditta Fortunato

below: Zelda enshrined

a little street art piece that turns a religious shrine into a shrine for Zelda, the video game character and heroine.

below: Dancing in the dark

large paper pasteups of dancing girls

below: Superwomen sharing a pizza, street art by LiDieSis

street art by lediesis, two women dressed as superwoman eating pizza

below: Couple, staring into each other’s eyes.

street art, two people, middle aged, man and woman looking at each other

below: A street scene in the Spanish Quarter

Street scene, Spanish Quarter, Naples, motorbikes, graffiti, balconies, laundry, doorways,

below: Graffiti paper wheatpaste by Lingual (I think that’s what it says), a man’s portrait in grey tones, with two small green snakes slithering out of his mouth. Is this a political statement? He’s designed like an antique stone bust and carefully positioned on top of a real stone plaque on a wall in Naples

monochrome paper paste up by lingual of a man's portrait with a small green figure hanging from his mouth

below: Graffiti cat

paper pasteup of a cat

below: Like the image above, here is another strange woman sniffing flower parts

graffiti on a wall, largest piece is an orange woman in red flower petals sniffing red, she has blue hair

below: More than one person has left their shoes here…. A runner with a stopwatch in lieu of a head.

street art graffiti on a small concrete lab, a runner with a stop watch clock for a head, at least two pair of shoes have been left on top of the slab

below: Very big hands, skinny arms and legs, and a puffball rabbit tail?

graffiti on a wall in Spanish Quarter, Naples

below: A small section of Vico Toto where there are some paintings that pay tribute to Totò, the stage name of an Italian actor Antonio “Totò” De Curtis (1898-1967). You can see more of the works here, Toto and friends, an earlier blog post.

part of Vico Toto, a narrow street in Spanish Quarter of Naples

below: Life is short

graffiti urban art, painting of two fish, with a big hook between them and the words life is short

below: Maradona (1960-2020) was a football hero to many and references to him are all over Naples. For more Maradona and football graffiti in Naples see “Football and the ‘cult’ of Maradona“

street art painting of Maradona, beside a blue bench

below: Let your phone blind you and suck your brains out! Graffiti by Inserra.

graffiti by inserra, a smartphone is using a red straw to suck out the brains of a man, phone has yellow hands that cover the man's eyes

below: “Sempre la… stressa… cosa” or, in English, “Always there….stress… what” as he tries to balance a precarious load of chair, tire, fan, wine bottle, and more.

street art, drawing of a person balancing a number of household objects such as a chair, trash can

below: Punk chicken – except, don’t those feet look like a humn hand??

graffiti, painting of a bird with a chicken head

below: Outstretched hands encircle a shiny orb in a paper wheatpaste by Vivia Cirillo.

monochrome paper pasteup, man with arms outstretched

below: Perfectly placed skateboarder by Satwerz

graffiti picture of a skateboarder on a wall above a real railing

below: “mmm”Il faccio mordere” or “I’ll make him bite”

a motorbike, a pile of empty crates, and a street art painting, Spanish Quarter, Naples

below: Monochrome portrait of a local rapper, Geolier (Emanuele Palumbo), who is from the Gescal neighborhood of Naples. It was painted by Salvatore Iodice.

a motorbike is parked in front of a black and white street art portrait of a man, a famous rapper from Naples, painted by Salvatore Iodice

below: Two young men, by J.P. Gimenez

monochrome street art portraits of two young men

below: Sophia Loren serves up a pizza and on the right is, apparently, San Gennaro – On September 19, 305 AD, the Bishop of Benevento, Gennaro, died in Pozzuoli, martyred along with 6 others. As for the fellow in the middle – I don’t know!

motorbike parked in front of black and white monochrome street art paintings of three people, Sophia Loren holding a pizza, an unidentified man, and San Gennero who was martyred in 305 A.D.
Naples street scene with people, parked cars, street art, narrow streets, balconies, laundry,

below: Cartoonish interaction between telephone and eyepiece, only a fragment remains.

fragment of an old street art painting on broken concrete, blue telephone and white cartoonish eyepiece

Napoli graffiti urban art, large paste up of one woman combing another woman's hair graffiti in Naples

below: Keyboard player

graffiti, silhouette of a man playing a keyboard

abstract figure, street art

below: Cyop and Kaf painting high up on a wall. There are many examples of their work on the walls of Napoli! For more images, see Cyop & Kaf in Naples blogpost

mural by cyop and kaf on a wall, above the street

below: Another street in the Spanish Quarter.

street scene, shrines on wall, cars parked, graffiti on garage door, laundry hanging from balconies

below: Bright red lips and blue cheeks.

street art picture of a woman with bright red lips, grey eyes, and blue make-up,
yellow guitar player graffiti

below: Cave Gu-Tang black dog

cave gu-tang graffiti paste up of black dog

fishes invasion, don't sleep text sticker graffiti

blue face in a street art painting, along with words viva napoli

Photos taken February 2024

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