Graffiti and Street Art (Wall and Street)
Graffiti started with cave painting
Caves Lascaux, France
Scratched with animal bones and natural pigments
depicting scenes of everyday life, hunting.
Ancient Roman graffiti
from Pompeii (Italy)
Crudely drawn images, vulgarity
Graffiti of political nature.
20th century
Kilroy -USA
Chad - UK
appearing in the war with the slogan ‘wot no’
made a joke out of the social and political nation
Paris May 1968
Paris riots
Massive development for graffiti as an artform
the graffiti fuses all of the bodies together which shows a sense of strength and power in numbers.
1970’s American Graffiti scene
Spray can graffiti
Evolves alongside hip hop culture
Making the language of the street visual
Announcing presence, and saying ‘we will not be ignored’
VOICE ON THE STREET
Asserting their presence
1970’s disco scene the opposite of hip hop scene
superficial, fluffy
Hip hop
Political and outspoken
Jon Naar, Photographer, 1973
Liked to show the graffiti art but kept the identity of the artist anonymous
Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960-88)
starts as a graffiti artist and moves forward in an art school
Neo expressionist painting
Untitled 1982
1983
dies of a heroin overdose in 1988
Produced phrases which are very famous
SAMO - same old - same old shit
poetic but confusing style
has a deep meaning but it is not easily uncover-able
He built up this character but he also killed the character in 1979
uses a copyright symbol when he signs SAMO’S name
Warhol and Basquiat
General Electric wait waiter, 1984.
comment about capitalists
Keith Haring, Radiant baby, 1990
most famous symbols
he was a social activist as well as an artist
works in the subway.
He sketches over advertising
1981 he sketched his first chalk drawings on black paper and painted plastic, metal found objects
message about sexuality
Aids and HIV was a huge subject
Gay artist
PopShop - closed 2005
Selling t-shirts, toys, posters bearing his signature images
Became a celebrity hang out
his work was criticised because of his commercialism - making money out of work that had already been commissioned.
John Feckner, Broken Promises, 1980
Stenciled
Artists use a word in a real place
very effective
‘broken promises’ showing the misuse of space in the city
Jenny Holzer, Times Square Show, 1980
using digital art people might not realise they are looking at artwork as they so regularly see advertising in those areas.
Graffiti art in a different form?
Video Game Culture
Comment on the lack of availability of brands and technology in the Eastern bloc
From the Berlin Wall
commenting on the desire for goods and to be part of the commercial world
Symbolism of the world coming down - influx of technology
Tats Cru - 1997 for Coca Cola, Mcdonalds, Toyota, MTV
Appealing to a younger audience by using a style which they can identify with
Jet Set Radio (2000-2003)
famous for its soundtrack and self shaded style of animation
Graffiti in video games
exploration into the subculture and expressions
Invader - French Artist 1969
moves graffiti on from making art on a wall
uses pixels in an image
places them in cities
space invader spread firstly in France and can now been seen in most cities around Europe
Can not be removed by the council
Conceptual element : points on a map form a space invader
Attack of the Montpellier
sends people around the city to collect his work - pac man
Re-emergence of street art
Banksy Kate Moss
Shepard Fairey 2008 working for the Obama campaign
Banksy - inspired by andy warhol
Parisian Photographer JR, Favella
Morro Da Provienda - Rio, 2008
blows up a photograph and places it on the buildings
highlight the social impact of living in the Favela’s
the women look down on the area in a protective way, also a reminder of the human cost of living in the violent area
Blu (italy) and Os Gesmeos (Brazil)
Lisbon, 2010
image covers the whole building, part of the building becomes part of the street art.
social comment with some sort of agreement as he would have had to get permission to produce the art
Corsa Advert - his work was included
Balance between working in a sub cultural field and being taken up by the commerical world
123 KLAN (France) Nike, Addidas
try and maintain their own practice as well
Paul Curtis (moose)
Environmental aspect to street art
uses stencils and a water jet to blast off the dirt from the walls which creates an image
he would rather create something that can be removed naturally
Leeds City Centre
Made sound clash record label (1990’s)
the global picture
Bomb it
2007 as part of the tribecer film festival
shepard fairey was featured
Free art friday
art movement in which artists place free art out in public for people to enjoy and take home.
unlike established street art which will stay where it is, free art friday the idea of it is that it is portable
Sam 3 (Spain) Murcia 2010
uses only black paint
responding to an existing environent and adapting it with an environmental theme.
the city is seen as a stage where the narrative can be played out
no attempt for the artist to explain it to us
VHILS aka Alexandre farto (Portugal) London 2008
plastic is knocked away from the brick which leaves an image
Faith 71
Amsterdam
Red stickers round a natural hole in plaster
bridges the gap between hyperealist art and hyperabstract
Graffiti art can be a way of escaping gender
Some graffit artists play on the femininity
Fafi (France)
Miss Van
Swoon - her characters have a historical reference
Art of Resistance
politcal walls
JR also places his work onto a wall in Bethlehem
asking people to pull faces, decorating the wall in a negative place
removes the idea of territory in land
Banksy, 2005
looking at the wall as an invitation for decoration.
Stencils an image of girl with balloons, essentially escaping the wall by flying over it.
Someone adds to Banky’s graffiti (sister you need more)
CTRL + ALT +DELETE
impact of the wall has been most severe on the people living there.
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