...Graffiti has a long and very interesting history. If it would be defined as writing on the wall then it can go back into ancient times. If to speak about the drawn images than it can go back into New York City and it appearing in 1960s. Subculture of graffiti has existed for several decades and it’s still growing and expanding all over the world. It has a very strong social impact and influence; moreover, the language of graffiti (for the most part it’s a social commentary) is not always hard to understand. And some graffiti works might be very inspirational and shocking in a best way possible. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles presented “Art in the Streets” in 2011. That was the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the history...
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...recently known for his Obama Hope print during the 2008 election, gained his passion from street art. Fairey was born February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1988 and continued on to earn his BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. While he worked at a skateboard shop, he became inspired by the underground and punk scene. He started to make stencils and screen print putting his designs on things like shirts and skateboards. This lead to his now nationally famous ‘OBEY’ stencils that took over the streets, clothing, and his artwork. His first print, “Andre the Giant Has a Posse,” created in 1989 took on the street art style that he would become known...
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...TIBETAN STREET ART This paper will be examining ways ideas of Tibetan Art are being changed through the use of street art/graffiti. To do so it will give a brief overview of: street art/graffiti, Tibetan Art and Western Religious Art, as much of Tibet Art is religious in nature. Using this information it will address the question of the paper and look at any similarities between the ways Tibetans have adopted street art/graffiti and Western street art/graffiti. It will also examine the reactions of the Chinese Communist authorities not only to Tibetan Art and street art/graffiti but Tibetan culture in general. Graffiti is unsolicited markings on public or private property, the word graffiti coming from the Italian graffito, meaning ‘to scratch’. In recent years, the word graffiti has also been used to refer to a particular style of art, painted legally or not. It “…is art removed from art’s own precious arena; it inhabits the everyday world of people…is the art of the general. First and foremost its purpose is to focus the public’s sense of space. It has to be immediate, forceful”[1]. The reasons given for graffiti/street art are diverse. Banksy, probably the most well known graffitist in the world says “Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s (graffiti) actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.”[2] ...
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...The old wall of Sclater Street, often used as a canvas for street artists was turned into a Pop up Art Gallery by ‘The Art No Cube’ team of curators. The event called ‘Photo Invasion Invades Shoreditch’, showcased the new works of illustrator Lucas Levitant to the sound of Boom la Tete hypnotic music. Levitant's work consists of superimposing his quirky and playful illustrations onto images he finds on Instagram. The result of this ‘invasion’ creates unpredictable and staggering new stories while conserving the integrity of the original images. The curators conveyed the idea of ‘invasion-with-integrity’ all through out the evening, from the choice and the design of the venue to the band and covers they played. The work was glued to the picturesque brick wall of Sclater Street, shamelessly adding a new layer of colour and texture to an already visually chaotic space. The industrial spot lights which hung from rusty metal window panels equally lit the works of Lucas Levitnat and the existing street art sprayed across the brick wall canvass. As a result the exhibited works seemed to be merging with the existing images of the wall in an unexpected and surreal manner, creating a credible interaction between the art and the urban street wall prototype. Consequently the otherwise passive wall was elevated to the same status as the illustrations displayed. Legal reasons aside, Lucas Levitant refused to sell any of his work in an attempt to continue the art ‘invasion’. Instead he...
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...The word realism, in the everyday use, is a word we are very familiar with. Join magical and realism together and they take on a whole new meaning. The marriage of these two words transforms their very individual definitions into one unique meaning. Magical realism has since developed into a literary genre; it represents more than just a definition. Magical realism has, in essence, become a philosophy, a real way of seeing things. It also represents much more than an attitude, or a window to view the world; it has become a philosophy of life. The very wording itself is an oxymoron (Rodgers, 2002). According to many critics, Magical Realism was thought to have originated, as a new art form, in the early twentieth century. Having been given credit for coining the term, Franz Roh, writes about this new art form in one of his articles. The 1925 article “Magical Realism,” Mr. Roh explains Magical Realism through the examination of artistic styles. He further explained that an artist may review the texture, the light, and the shape of an object to influence the portrayal of what is simply a caricature of reality; there isn’t any significant meaning other than the obvious real qualities of what is being examined. Mr. Roh continues to explain that Magical Realism can also be used, in contrast, to portray something having boring yet deep meaning. Only in the realm of Magical Realism can you stimulate an exciting and intellectual thought of the ordinary real world (Roh, 1925). Magical realism...
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...birth to what their generation will sorely need . . . A Graffiti Artist. In the 1990s Graffiti was still colour on walls to some, and criminal activity to others, but out of this disagreement an unknown artist, and he is still unknown, emerged. His street name, Bansky. One of his first famous quotes that he painted on a wall read: “We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.” — Banksy An Artist with a larrakin heart wrapped around a disgruntled, political soul he once climbed into the penguin enclosure at London Zoo and and painted “We’re bored of fish” in 7-foot-high letters. In August 2005, he painted an image of children digging a hole through the Israeli West Bank barrier. Then, in 2006, he placed up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton‘s debut CD, Paris, in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse. The Music tracks were given titles such as “Why Am I Famous?”, “What Have I Done?” and “What Am I For?”. Several copies of the CD were purchased by the public before stores were able to remove them, some going on to be sold for as much as £750 on online auction websites such as eBay. The cover art depicted Hilton digitally altered to appear topless. Other pictures featured her with her chihuahua Tinkerbell’s head replacing her own, and one of her stepping...
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...2011. Fine, Gary Allan. “Crafting Authenticity: The Validation of Authenticity in Self-Taught Art.” Theory and Society 32.2 (April 2003): 153–80. Web. Gomez, Marisa A. “The Writing On Our Walls: Finding Solutions Through Distinguishing Graffiti Art From Graffiti Vandalism.” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 26 (Spring 1993): 633–707. Web. Grant, Barry. Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. Print. Halsey, Mark and Alison Young. “’Our Desires Are Ungovernable’: Writing Graffiti in Urban Space.” Theoretical Criminology 10 (2006): 275–306. Web. Leidtka, Jean. “Strategy Making and the Search for Authenticity.” Journal of Business Ethics 80 (2008): 237–48. Web. Phillips, David. Exhibiting Authenticity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Print. Bourdon, David (1971), "Warhol as Filmmaker," Art News, 59 (3), 48-53. Bourdon, David (1989), Warhol, New York: Abradale Press. Shiner, Larry. “’Primitive Fakes,’ ‘Tourist Art,’ and the Ideology of Authenticity.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52.2 (Spring 1994): 225–34. Web. Banksy. Wall and Piece. London: Random House, 2006. Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall. London: Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2003. Cong, Huynh. The Terror of War: The Children on Route 1 Near Trang Bang. 1972. Photograph Lewisohn, Cedar. Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution. New York: Abrams, 2008. Schwenkel, Christina. “Exhibiting War, Reconcoling...
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...Street Art Street art can be found on buildings, sidewalks, street signs and even trashcans from Tokyo to Paris to New York City. This special kind of art can take the form of paintings, sculptures, cloth or even stickers. Its international presence is supported by Web sites, artist communities, books and magazines. Street art has become part of a global visual culture. Now, even art museums and galleries are collecting the work of street artists. It is not easy to provide an exact history of the street art movement. This kind of art has developed in many kinds of ways in places all over the world. Also, street artists usually work secretly because it is illegal to paint public and private property without permission. This secretive nature of street art and its countless forms make it hard to define exactly. And people have different opinions about the movement. Some think street art is a crime and destroys property. But others see this art as a rich form of nontraditional cultural expression. Many experts say the movement began in New York City in the nineteen sixties. Young adults would use paint in special cans to spray their “tag” on walls and train cars around the city. This tag was a name they created to identify themselves and their artwork. This colorful style of writing is also called graffiti. It is visually exciting and energetic. Some graffiti paintings were signs marking the territories of city gangs or illegal crime groups. Graffiti also became a separate...
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...Word Count: 2,259 Graffiti's Helpfulness Throughout history art has always been present. Art has been used to preserve an era, retell stories, to show a culture so anyone could understand it, and graffiti and street art is the modernists way of showing their culture. Graffiti and street art has taken over the streets of cities and towns. In most locations graffiti and street art is considered purely vandalism. These artists are presented with into the shadows to show their pieces of works to society. Graffiti and street art has evolved from simply putting a made up name on the wall to drawing attention to societal issues. The streets are the ideal location for controversial art pieces because every commoner with see those art works. Graffiti and street art has opened a new door of possibilities allowing people to freely speak of controversial issues within their suburb, town, or large city. These art medians have enable artists for an urban age of liberation. In Elizabeth L. Rauh's essay “Thirty Years Later: Iranian Visual Culture from the 1979 Revolution to the 2009 Presidential Protests”, Rauh examines the posters, photographs, slogans, graffiti, and other visual and artistic activities to show how the Green Movement used street art and graffiti to visually illustrate issues about the government anonymously. Rauh says that the specific images that were used in these revolutions have appeared within Iranian history before. They were recognizable throughout the whole community...
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...Tema čija svrha mi se ponajviše svidjela iznad svih ostalih jest street art i aktivizam zbog svoje tendencije za promjenom stagnirajuce realnosti koja se odvija u trenutku stvaranja same ideje aktivističkog pokreta. Osovni element street arta i aktivizma koji poziva na sudjelovanje je mogućnost doslovno svakog pojedinca da predstavi svoj pogled na svijet, bilo to s namjerom mijenjanja u nekom društveno političkom kontekstu ili s namjerom podizanja svijesti o nečemu pozitivnom ili negativnom. Umjetnici su misli i ideje,a ulica je kolektivan um koji im posluži kao muzej za izložbu svojih radova javnosti, pozivajući ju na dijalog. Drugim riječima,aktivistički street art je iznošenje istine necenzuriranom slobodom govora koji se emitira na globalnoj razini. Veliku pažnju na toj sceni zaplijenio je umjetnik anonimnog identiteta "Banksy" čiji radovi često odišu kontroverznim i provokativnim temama koje "trljaju sol na rane" kapitalizma,ratova i korporacijske propagande. Svojim prepoznatljivim aktivističkim radom čak i pod krinkom skrivene osobnosti uspio je dotaknuti publicitet skoro cijelog svijeta dovodeći street art do nivoa "ulaska" sa ulice u instituciju muzeja. "Šablonski" prikazujući tri američka vojna helikoptera u formaciji leta aero flote koja služi za transport vojnika,oružja i municije,te bombardiranje neprijateljskog teritorija. Naime,na prvom helikopteru u nizu jasno možemo uočiti rozu mašnicu,čijim uplitanjem Banksy kao da degradira ozbiljnost i vjerodostojnost vojnih...
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...Demetrius Lee Jacqueline Fetzer English 802 29 November 2015 The Misunderstood Art Form of Graffiti Graffiti is a monumental part of any urban environment. Many view the action of graffiti to be the work of a criminal while others view it as the work of an artist. Vandalism, the destruction of property, is the category that graffiti falls under in many countries. It is understandable that posting graffiti on a private small business is a criminal act. However, graffiti can and should be viewed as a form of art no matter the location. Many art museums have graffiti style pieces, which further reinforces the argument for graffiti being viewed as a work of an artists rather than a vandal. At the end of the day, graffiti is an antisocial (not accepted as a valid form of social expression) form of art. Modern graffiti originated in the 1960s and was used by teenagers as a form of expression; it eventually metastasized into a majority of urban environments and eventually found its way into art museums internationally (Whitehead, 26). However, as the popularity of graffiti grew, law enforcement began to view it as the work of criminal vandals and legislation was passed in an attempt to halt it. As time progressed graffiti’s social point of view has improved as its presence has decreased (Dennant 1997). Modern graffiti first appeared in the 1960s in Philadelphia (CIA). It was mostly about “tagging” or putting your name on a piece of public property. However, as graffiti...
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...BANKSY STREET ART BY: HANI MUAMMAR SAE Introduction Art is a great way for individuals to express themselves, many artworks can be deemed as controversial especially when artists produce their art in order to express their views, feelings or specific ideas linked to their political, social or economical surroundings. Such art could have significant effects which may influence the people who appreciate its core meaning and could link it to the status quo in any named community. Certain techniques, styles and structures are implemented by many famous artists in order to construct this art into a form that typifies them as artists and gives them their unique signature. (heghine666 2011) One specific artist has been largely famous for his controversial and unique forms of art, he is known by the alias “Banksy” who uses graffiti street art as a structure for his unique form of art. Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist in the world. Some pieces of his urban graffiti art, with its distinctive stencil style, have been sold at auctions for remarkable amounts of money, but most importantly, he has inspired many people around the world for having pieces which touches upon sensitive and core social, political and economic situations in life that many people can easily relate to. His name, style, and brand of urban anti-war, anti-establishment, and rebellious art have earned him a place in the hearts of many who appreciates it. The two primary reasons that Banksy's...
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...sports and performing arts, seemed too surreal. Throughout my time in Melbourne, I was captivated with the numerous culturally significant sites in and outside the city, such as the colorful history and rich heritage of the Victorian Parliament and the natural beauty of Australia’s wildlife at Healesville Sanctuary. However, a site that seems to reflect Melbourne’s status as one of the world’s great street art capitals and unique artistic expressions is Hosier Lane. Coming from a city with a booming street art movement- Bangkok, Thailand- I felt compelled to compare and reflect about the diverse range of street art and the related subcultures in Hosier Lane to the rising street art movement in Bangkok. The traditional definition of street art is usually unsanctioned visual art created in public locations. This particular term gained popularity due to the rise of graffiti artwork during the early 1980s. Nowadays, common art forms of modern street art can be sticker art, stencil graffiti, sculptures and posters. Often, these artworks are considered as the artist’s attempts to communicate their personal feelings or can be perceived as conveying thoughtful problems about society and its ever-shifting culture. Some artists have even garnered cult-followings throughout the media and worldwide attention due to their art that present aesthetic values and content relevant to society (Street Art-City of Melbourne). Common themes and messages found in street art can be political expressions...
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...public spaces from advertisers with the slogan “reclaiming the streets.” He says advertisers and brands can’t reach out to young generation with old version of advertisements, like TV ads and radio spots. Fuchs used advertising professional from TBWA agency how this guerilla marketing is so popular and effective because this way can surprise people when they don’t expect advertisements. Rising of guerilla marketing made advertisers and brands to poach...
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...the downpour of rain or the rough hands of constant passersby. It is this cracking and yellowing attribute that draws blossoming street artist Swoon to its aging nature. She remarks upon its ability to weather and how vital that is to her craft. Her work is resonant, its purpose to impact the nearby residents in shared, but personal experiences, and awareness of the surrounding area. Swoon is unique in her ability to charge public space with new and different types of imagery. Developing Questions: How does having a degree in art affect her standing as a street artist? Is there a difference between her type of street art and other forms of graffiti? What influences can be seen in her work? Who is her targeted audience - if she has one at all? Why did she give up traditional painting? Do galleries or exhibits hold any influence...
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