1. Describe Style Wars as if you were explaining it to a person who has not viewed the film. The documentary, Style Wars, is basically about the three things that made up the Hip Hop culture in the 1970’s to early 1980’s. The first was graffiti and how the teenagers of the time would use this type of art to express themselves. They would spray paint their names on the sides of buildings and subway trains in New York City. Another way of Hip Hop culture was expressed by a type of dancing
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Welcoming Urban Graffiti Every day you wake up and see graffiti. But what people do not know, is that this is a way that the creator can express themselves to the public. All the time, people are finding tags or unwanted graffiti on walls that are ruining buildings. What if the people instead of doing graffiti for marking, why not using their abilities to make the graffiti for good? Urban graffiti can tell stories, events in the past, and rise tourism numbers, or even be used to beautify the communities
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Tyrus Wong Tyrus Wong is the one of unknown and unappreciated Chinese-American artist of the 20th century. He was known as a Hollywood studio artist, painter, printmaker, calligrapher, greeting-card illustrator and maker of fantastical kites. Wong left China at the age of 10 with his father and would never see his mother again. Once he arrived in America he lived in extreme poverty, but because of his character and a help of his father Tyrus Wong found himself in art. Eventually after years of poverty
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Banksy and Terry are both from Britain. But now, they both live in the US. In 2006, Banksy came to the USA and met Terry, who also has obsessive compulsive disorder. The two were benefiting from each other’s personal interest. Banksy is known as a graffiti street artist. Terry is the man who loves to video tape anything and everything. They both have obsessive compulsive disorder which drives them crazy and they want attention. Banksy's art is everywhere and his signature is on everything, on dry
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store. Lucas grew up in the Central Valley town of Modesto, and his early passion for cars and motor racing would eventually serve as inspiration for his USC student film 1:42.08, as well as his Oscar-nominated low-budget phenomenon, American Graffiti. Long before Lucas became obsessed with film making, he wanted to be a race-car driver, and he spent most of his high school years racing on the underground circuit at fairgrounds and hanging out at garages. On June 12, 1962, while driving his souped-up
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feature-directing debut in 1971. The film was produced by American Zoetrope. In 1971, Lucas formed his own film company, Lucasfilm Ltd., in San Rafael, California. With the backing of American film producer Francis Ford Coppola, Lucas then made American Graffiti which returned $50 for every dollar spent on production and distribution, a staggering ration in the movie business. The film is considered one of the biggest successes of low-budget film making. It made George Lucas a millionaire before the age
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centers on a group of lower-class black kids, including Preach, a smart student, and his close friend, Cochise, a great athlete who's on the verge of getting a scholarship. This film has been compared to be the black version of George Lucas' "American Graffiti"; the film has a lot of energy and substance to easily overlook that fact. There are many funny moments, including a scene where the boys joyride with Preach behind the wheel; a scene where the boys cut class and head to the zoo, ending with a hilarious
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Jane Golden, Artist Contemporary Mural Painting Movement Jane Golden, artist and a mural painter became interested in the Anti-Graffiti Network Program established in Philadelphia, Pa. by the former Mayor Wilson Goode in the 1980s. Ms. Golden was given the task to establish an arts program to help turn young offender’s destructive energies into creative ones. In 1966, the project became the Mural Arts Program and under her direction, over 3,000 interior and exterior murals have been created
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Audra Spellman Professor Denishia Harris Barringer, Felicity. "As Vandals Deface U.S. Parks, Some Point to Online Show-Offs." The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 04 June 2013. Web. 15 July 2013. Sociology 15 July 2013 Graffiti How does graffiti challenge the dominant notions of art? I chose to explore this topic because I wanted to show that there are many different thoughts as to what is beautiful or aesthetically pleasing to society. Art is defined as “the quality, production
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explain how many people perceive street art as being graffiti or vandalism. They see it as it is taking up space in a community field with different places. This one dimensional ideology really takes away of the real reasoning’s of why street artists put whatever it is up for everyone to see. Many just pass it up as being vandalism and never takes the time to actually question why they painted what they did. Graffiti really wasn’t seen to be vandalism until Mayor Ed Koch coined
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