Monday 26 November 2012

GRAFFITI + STREET ART (WALL + STREET)


  • Cave paintings, depicting scenes of everyday life like hunting.
  • Stratched with animal bones and natural pigments
  • Ancient Roman graffiti
  • Kilroy / Chad - WW1 taking the mickey of social and historical times "wot now", humour of where it was placed
  • Paris riots 86' - period of mass graffiti "we are the power" unity, strength by numbers
  • Urban graffiti 
  • 1970's New York - spray can style, evolved from hip hop culture, street life, visible in subways and walls, announcing presence, carrying a statement
  • Jon Navar, photographer 1973 dissatisfaction of wealth, deprived areas (from on becoming a graffiti) - book

Source

  • Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960-88) neo expressionist painting.
  • Tag lines the streets with quotes 'samo' poetic, confusing style which started as a private joke and grew
  • Death of samo 1979
  • 1980's gallery staple graffiti
  • Warhol and Madonna where friends with J.M Basquiat
  • Capitalism: general electric 
keith popshop Obey x Keith Haring

  • Keith Haring, radiant baby 1990, social  activist, NYC street culture, manipulated excising adverts
  • Sexuality, gay, aids scene,
  • Pop shop - closed 2005, celebrity hangout, criticised for getting for activist movement

  • John Feukner, broken promises 1980, desert times - homeless, lo fi, stencils
  • Jenny Holzer, LCD, kin to advertising, mimicks info to the street, truism, state the obvious, promps audience to think
  • Video game culture
  • Eastern bloc lack of tech: Berlin wall symbolism
  • TATS cru, 1997 coca cola, youth audience
  • Bomb the world (2004) pst, jet set radio (2000-03)
  • Invader, artist, French, first mosaic, in mid 90's, tiles are pixel like, permancy "attack of monpelter" - map
  • Re-emergence of street art bansky: Kate, Shepard Fairy: Obama 
  • Parisian  photo JR, favella, rio'08
  • Blu (Italy) + 05 gemes (brazil) libson 2010
  • Numutrated graffiti 08
  • 123 klan
  • Paul Curtis (moose) reverse graffiti, stencils, water removes dirt "green works"
  • Bomb it - filmography
  • Free art Friday movement
  • Sam 3 (Spain) limited materials responding to existing environment
  • VHILS aka Alex Farb
  • Diva (Brooklyn) gender
  • Fafi (France) miss van, hevatent

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