Street/Graffiti Art

Lecture

Street/Graffiti Art

Helen Clark

Paris May 1968

Nous Sommes Le Pouvoir - we are the power

civil unrest inspiring culture/creative material

New York 1970’s

spray can graffiti

evolves alongside hip hop culture

making the language on the streets visible

announcing a presence and saying ‘we will not be ignored’

Jon Naar, photographer 1797

Jean Basquiat

Death of SAMO (same-oh’) - 1979

Moved graffiti style into his painting, neo expressionist painting

part of a celebrity movement at the time, had a band was on TV, films, dated Madonna, was the ‘wild child’ of New York at the time, and worked with the Warhole called general electric

died in 1980’s from heroin overdose.

Keith haring  - radiant baby 1990

work started on the subway

black paper white chalk

pop shop to sell t-shirts, toys, posters bearing his signature images.

John Feckner, broken promises 1980

John Holzer, times square show 1980

Video game culture: from the Berlin wall - Feliz 1984

Tats Cru 1997 for Coca Cola

Graffiti in video games, sideways New York ps3 2011, GTA tagging

invader - French street artist born 1969

first mosaic in mid 1990’s Paris

mosaic tile which has permanent as its weather proof and more difficult to remove than paper/paint

Conceptual element: points on a map form of a space invader

Re-emergence of street art

Banksy’s Kate Moss - based on Warhole’s Monroe

Shepard Fairey 2008 Obama silkscreen.

Parisian photographer JR, Favela Morro Da Provienda - Rio 2008

based on drawing attention to the women in Rio that are under represented

Blu (Italy) and Os Gemeos (Brazil) Lisbon 2010

Making Political statement on oil

123 Klan (France)

was a graffiti crew in 1989, gradually turned into illustration and design whilst doing graffiti (recommended to check out their website)

Paul Curtis (Moose) - reverse graffiti - environment approach in an urban life

Sam 3 (Spain) Murcia 2010

only uses black paint

turns City into a stage for him to paint on

Vhils aka Alexandre Farto (Portugal) London 2008

chipped away plaster layer to create 3D effect

Faith 1971 worked in similar way to Vhils, from Amsterdam

Red stickers round a natural hole in plaster

Diva (Brooklyn) - female

Fafi (France) female work

Miss Van

Herakut (Hera + Kut) - body with animal figure

Swoon - better known for week paste work

Palestinian wall graffiti, Banksy + others

Seminar with Gary Barker

Blu - animation inspiration to many ads

Haring big inspiration

Whilst writing notes, paste in some of the links to show where animation becomes quite powerful

Read that film philosophy page (12-14)

Looked at Darryl Cunningham - psychiatric tales

Terry Gilliam (animator)

Compare whatever he was talking about with ‘The Brothers Key’ (details on moodle)