Wednesday 21 November 2012

Graffiti/Street Art Lecture



Graffiti & Street Art 
(Wall & Street)



 
Caves at Lascaux, France
They are images that are scratched into the cave walls with animals bones and tools.

There is a shared activity that the things that have happened during the working day, the hunt that are retold on the caves walls as a group activity. This is containing some form as politics.




Ancient Roman Graffiti
Rude figures and vulgarity which is very similar to contemporary graffiti.









20th century,
The figure of Kilroy in the US or chad in the UK. Its a very simple draw figure the UK version on the right it appeared a lot after first world war ,wot no sugar....'
There are lots of ideas where he came from the outrageousness of the graffiti is mainly where it is placed.









Paris May'68
The paris riots occured, it was a period of massive development of graffiti as an art form. These images are a collection of graffiti posters from the book on the right. Which depicks a group of workers as holding a spanner and the image itself is fusing the body's together which connotes strength of unity.








Contemporary Graffiti
Chris Osbourne-Graffiti scene in the UK this is one of the images of Sweet tooth creating his work. The most interesting hing of this image is the text across the top which makes it possibly locatable.








1970's New York Scene
They see the explosion of street graffiti often seen on train carriages. Evolves alongside the hip hop culture. The purpose of spraying across the two cars of spreading the message further along the country. There is the Hip hop scene and the disco scene which is very superficial and perhaps rather fluffy.










Jon Naar documenting this period in his photography. He preserves his annonity in the image on the right which is a humorous depiction on the left as he has been made to clean up a van that he has graffiti. This is a way of communication of the dissatisfaction of wealth. The messages would be sent from the less affluent to more affluent just to remind them that they are there.
John Narr - This takes away a part of the reason for this activity.







Jean Michel Basquiat- Moves into art school he is famous for putting graffiti in painting. He lives a very short life of a heroin overdose when he is just 27. He fuses the idea of a written message & a visual message. One of his graffiti projects are to produce these phrases as SAMO comes form phrase same old. These are very poetic but confusing style. Life is confusing at this point which has a very deep meaning. Its asking us questions but not giving us the answer.



This grows into like a cult thing and at the same time he builds up this character he also kills the character in 1979 as he writes samo is dead and uses the the copywrite symbol. Although they don't know if it is the same person creating these , but still has the same effect.







Neo expressionist painting.
The kind of scene where graffiti becomes a gallery staple. Who he also works with Warhol & Basquiat. Which is a comment on capitalism which ahs a reference to these huge accompanied that sick up capital.








Keith Haring,Radiant Baby
1990
Most famous symbols he also a social activist aswell as an artist. He works in the street in the subway and very much part of the street culture. He sketches in the other ahlf of the advertising image . he positions them around the subway which turns him to been comissioned. the picture below is a commissioned piece which ended up saving the building due to the it been wanting to be knocked down.




As a gay artist that he makes a comment on HIV having a crisis on the creative community.







He opens a popshop which sells tshirts which he is criticized of selling work which is a originally a social message. He crosses to the area of selling him self as a brand. Which is affordable and everyday rather than a gallery way.









John Feckner, Broken promises, 1980
This image is a part of genre of word art as artist used a word i a street setting to portray a message. In this one while we have people homeless we have a building been disused etc...
 The low file as its stenciled on paper which is pasted on to the wall.







Jenny Holzer, Times quare ahow, 1980
She uses a digital as mimic the overload of the visual information on the street. She calls them truisms. She makes statements that are obvious but at the same time makes you think about the obviousness. Abusive power comes at no surprise. Its comes with authority but dont know whos its coming from. What does that [phrase mean to you? is more of the question.







Video Game Culture-
From Berlin Wall. Lack of technology available in  west Germany. The graffiti here seems t cbe commenting on this desire of been part of the commercial world. The symbolism of the wall coming down is at last we can have the input of technology.





French Artist, Invader,
Produces something more permannt in mosaic which are like pixels of video games. spreads acroos france then across the world. This kind of permanency to them can not be removed almost establishing themselves as a free art work. his work is obviously inspired by 80's game play.
Attack of Montpellier- send you on a mission to collect his work.










Tats Cru, 1997 Coca cola
The use of graffiti in advertising by appealing to the youth, This is a kind of distortion of the idea of graffiti in the sense as there's no message, no active rebellion no claim of titory.








Reemergence of street art.

As the gallery goes outside we also get the street coming back in.







Parisian Photographer. JR
Morro Da Providence 2008
Makes potrafic portraits and then pastes them on to side of building where people live. To highlight the ways on living of a otugh environment. Privoked by the people that live in the ares which is similar to.








Blu & Os Gemoeos Lisbon 2010
Sucking globe up which is a social comment with some sort of agreement of production.
Which he is also known for animated graffiti.
In Corsa ad. The balance between working in a subcultural field and been taken up b the commercial world which






123 KLAN France
They try and mainatin there own practice and keep up there social responcablitty as well as benefitting from there work. They made this tshirt as an attempt to bring attention to the big split between the urban environment as one side is all the main cities and the other side the ghetto towns.







Paul Curtis
Reverse Graffiti
Uses stencils and then uses a blast jet to remove the dirt of the city. Here he is creating a concrete jungle. He beautifis them t=with this beautiful scene. He is also who is behind the sound clash record label. This style of graffiti was used in Smirnoff ad campaigns.



Free Art Friday

A group of people who work world wide who invite street artists to bring a piece of street art and leave it for someone to take home. The idea is that its Its portable and removable. And you put a label when leaving it out so the person knows its OK to take it away.







Limiting materials
Sam 3
Murcia 2010
He onlys uses black paint. He changes it and adapts it with a kind of environmental theme. Which becomes a backdrop of a puppet show. In which the town becomes a stage. There is no attempt of trying to attempt to explain the story.







VHILS
London
2008
Taking away from the wall the concrete to reveal the beneath.
Appealing to its environmental scene







  Diva (Brooklyn)
The idea put forward is that graffiti art is a way of escaping gender as you can be a graffiti artist and doesnt matter about gender. Although used a feminist font and pink colours.





Swoom
her characters often contain an historical reference.







Art of Resistance.
JR the photogrpaher also places his work on the wall in palastine which are pasted on the wall. He just asks peoeple to pull gfaces, its a attempt to address the object itself. This concrete sculpture lets decorate it with emotion as this is a Territory as it effect human life.








Bansky
Graffiti as a dialogue as graffiti been over stenciled or been added to. 









Ctrl + Alt + Delete
The imapct of the wall on rural communities here they have attempt of removing the wall through language.




Further Research

Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution- Book
http://graffuturism.com/2011/02/01/graffitievolutionandprogression2011/- Came across this website when further looking into graffiti.
 

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