Artist combines GIFs and graffiti for ultimate masterpiece that is best appreciated online

You might think you’ve seen it all when it comes to daring art pieces, but you have to check out these masterpieces, which are unlike anything you have ever viewed before. Artist Insa combines graffiti artwork and GIFs that can only be seen online. He calls it GIF-iti. Here’s how he does it: He paints an already cool mural on a wall, photographs it, then repaints a slightly different mural on the same wall and photographs it again. Then, through the power of the GIF, it comes to life! If you think those look incredible, Insa took to the skies to create his most epic GIF-iti to date. He painted his trademark “Looking for Love” murals on the ground in Rio de Janeiro, and the outcome is the world’s largest GIF! This is actually satellite imagery taken from 431 miles above the Earth. You can take a look at how a team of 20 went to work to make the out-of-this-world GIF-iti happen in this YouTube video. His inspiration to flip the script on traditional art is simple. He says, “The Internet has kind of changed our view on art, and I wanted to cross both worlds and make work that existed in online space even more than it existed in the real space.”
 
You may have noticed that you never see Insa’s face in the video. He says he prefers to keep his anonymity, adding, “I think artwork can speak a lot louder if it’s not narrowed by the identity of the artist.” That’s so “Banksy” of you, Insa!