This week in the international-street-art-sphere portraiture was the method of choice. Just for you, we’ve compiled the portraits that we found to be most striking. View them below.

Aryz (above) worked on a collaboration with David Choe in L.A. You can clearly distinguish the American’s artist surrealistic style colliding with the Aryz‘s creepy world.

Invader

Last time we heard from Invader he was pasting a mosaic of Spider-man onto the Parisian landscape. The French artist now dropped a new work in London depicting another hero, Luke Skywalker, chilling out with his father, Darth Vader.

Ben Slow & Mear One

Ben Slow and Mear One worked on a politically charged collaboration for the streets of San Francisco. The two street artists portrayed Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in a light that acknowledges their shadier dealings.

Jack TML

The incredible Israeli artist Jack TML was recently in Germany to paint an indoor piece somewhere in Munich. His figurative work is charged with feelings of distance and proximity.

Aryz, prior to his collaboration with David Choe, worked on a gigantic mural in San Francisco. The Barcelona-based artist worked on merging the insides and outsides of his female character using his signature color pallet.

Stik is currently honoring the Chichester Street Art Festival  alongside Run & Phlegm. Working with his minimalistic stick figures, the British artist produces a piece that creates movement through subtlety.

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Meet Israeli street artist Jack TML part of TheMeaningless. He composes distorted portraits full of emotional content. “The characters are on the border between comic and tragic; some are in ridiculous situations, but they refer to themselves very seriously, just like we take ourselves seriously in real life. The characters are looking out into the world, without anything to say or a way to react to what they see on the streets. They’re lost and floating in space; they’re only drawings and they can’t change anything,” he explains.

In collaboration with Signer AFK

Jack TML emphasizes that “TML simply stands for Three Meaningless Letters or just TheMeaningLess. TML is like life itself: is a joke. It’s about nothing and the lack of human ability or desire to look for meaning in life or art.”

Read full interview: here

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JR officially launched the “Time is Now, Yalla!” campaign in Israel and Palestine as part of the Inside Out Project that they’ve been spreading all over the world. As a result of the kickoff, walls in Ramallah, Palestine and Jerusalem, Israel are covered in various portraits. Get a close-up of these pieces after the jump.

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