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Graf%iti and Street Art(Wall and Street)
Caves at Lascaux, France• Drawings and paintings on cave walls from the Paleolithic period (17, 300
years old)• Discovered in 1940 by four teenagers• Depicting scenes of everyday life, hunting etc.• scratched with animal bones, natural pigments
Ancient Roman Graf%iti• From Pompeii (Italy)– grafFiti on wall• Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic
eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in the year AD 79.
Caricature of a politician
Kilroy/Chad-‐ WWIIEngraving of Kilroy on the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
UK-‐slogan “wot no ….”
Paris May ‘68We are the power
Civil unrest inspiring cultural/creative material
The largest general strike ever, bringing the economy of an advanced industrial country to a virtual standstill.[1] It commenced with a series of student occupation protests. The strike involved eleven million workers for a continuous two weeks,[1] and its impact was such that it almost caused the collapse of President Charles de Gaulle's government.
Urban graf%iti
Chris OsburnAmerican freelance photojournalist and Filmmaker living and working in London. As a foreign correspondent for publications such as Juxtapoz and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Chris covers England's burgeoning grafFiti scene from the frontline, often accompanying notorious street artists on their outings.
A list of the renowned artists which Chris has photographed in action includes Sweet Toof, Cyclops, Sickboy and Dan Witz. He has interviewed signiFicant contemporary urban artists such as Paul Insect, David Choe and Invader and has extensively photographed the works of numerous legendary artists, including Jef Aerosol, Adam Neate, and Banksy.
1970’s New York
• Spay can grafFitti• Evolves alongside hip hop culture• Making the language of the streets visible• Announcing a presence, and saying ‘we will not be ignored’
Jon Naar, photographer, 1973
Cleaning the truck with AjaxWriting with marker pen-‐ anonymity preseved.‘Via trains and buses the writers sent their messages to more afFluent parts of the city as well as leaving their mark on public spaces.”
From on Becoming a Graf%iti photographer, John Naar• “you will see that the vast majority of these writers came from the most
run-‐down and neglected sections of New York….predominantly Hispanic and African American. The grafFiti they sprayed on the fronts of their homes and on the trains… were a cry for change from the ghetto to clean up the Filthy streets, to improve the quality of the schools, and to reduce the glaring inequality between rich and poor.”
• He makes a distinction between this kind of work in the 70’s and the ‘permission graff’ of comissioned grafFiti in designated areas which is not illegal
Jean -‐Michel Basquiat (1960-‐88)
American artist.[1] His career in art began as a grafFiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-‐expressionist painting. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27.
SAMO –Same-‐OH
In 1976, Basquiat and friends Al Diaz and Shannon Dawson began spray-‐painting grafFiti on buildings in Lower Manhattan, working under the pseudonym SAMO.
“the same old shit,” then shortening the phrase to "Same Old", then "SAMO"Originally a comic character created by Basquiat• The City As School 1977-‐8 Yearbook includes a photo of the SAMO grafFiti:
SAMO@ AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO PLASTIC FOOD STANDS…• “It started…as a private joke and then grew” Diaz and Basquiat would
later tell the Village Voice in an interview. They took the joke out of the school, giving out small stickers with SAMO aphorisms or the SAMO pamphlet on paper on the subway, and writing down the phrases with marker pens as grafFiti, often with an ironic copyright symbol attached. In 1977, while they were still students, Basquiat and Diaz started to put up the First SAMO© GrafFiti in Manhattan.
Death of SAMO
1979
Neo expressionist painting
Untitled 1982
1983
GrafFiti style into paintingIn 1981, Rene Ricard published "The Radiant Child" in Artforum magazine, which brought Basquiat to the attention of the art world.
Warhol and Basquiat• General Electric with waiter, 1984• One of Americas largest corporations• Collaborated towards the end of his life, Basquiat died of a heroin
overdose 18 months after Warhol
Keith Haring, radiant baby, 1990
An artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.
• In 1981 he sketched his First chalk drawings on black paper and painted plastic, metal and found objects.
• In 1984, Haring visited Australia and painted wall murals in Melbourne• Other commissions-‐ Rio, Paris, Berlin
Haring, subway art
PopShop –closed 2005
• Selling t-‐shirts, toys, posters bearing his signature images• Celebrity hang out
When asked about the "commercialism" of his work, Mr. Haring said: "I could earn more money if I just painted a few things and jacked up the price. My shop is an extension of what I was doing in the subway stations, breaking down the barriers between high and low art.
John Feckner, Broken Promises, 1980
Jenny HolzerTimes Square Show , 1980.
Video game culture• Comment on the lack of availability of brands and technology in the
Eastern blocFrom the Berlin Wall
In 1989, a radical series of political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc,After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, a euphoric public and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the wall; the governments later used industrial equipment to remove most of the rest.
TATS CRU , 1997 for Coca-‐Cola
GrafFiti has been used as a means of advertising both legally and illegally. In NYC, Bronx-‐based TATS CRU has made a name for themselves doing legal advertising campaigns for companies like Coca Cola, McDonald's, Toyota, and MTV Sony
Bomb the world (2004) PS2
Created by grafFiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide
Jet Set Radio (2000-‐2003) It depicts a future Tokyo where freedom of expression is outlawed. The user plays a character in the GG's, a gang of in-‐line skating grafFiti artists who skate around Tokyo covering up rival gangs' grafFiti, knocking over Rokkaku police, and dancing to the eclectic soundtrack. The game uses a cel-‐shaded style of animation, and has been widely acclaimed for its unique music style, detailed art, and gameplay.
Graf%iti in video games
Sideways New York PS3 2011
Grand Theft Auto-‐tagging
Invader• French artist, born 1969• First mosaic in mid 1990’s Paris• Mosaic tile which has permanency as it is weatherproof and more difFicult
to remove than paper/paint• Tiles are pixel like• The ‘invasion’ spreads First across French cities and then 22 countries
worldwide
Conceptual element: points on a map form a space invader
Interactive element, journey round the city The body also makes the shape.Repetition replicates journeys made in video games themselves
Re-‐emergence of Street ArtBanksy Kate Moss
Shepard Fairey 2008
Parisian Photographer JR, Favela Morro Da Provienda-‐ Rio, 2008
Pasted giant blow-‐ups of his photographs (usually of ordinary people). Highlight social realities like the women of the Favela in Rio, their eyes looking down protectively over the neigbourhood.
Blu (Italy) and Os Gemeos (Brazil)Lisbon, 2010
Crucially with permission-‐commissioned artworkTurrets of abandoned building make the points of this oil barrons crownHe is sucking the world dry
Blu-‐ animated graf%iti (2008)
http://vimeo.com/993998Corsa Ad 2011
123 KLAN (France)• founded as a grafFiti crew in 1989 by Scien and Klor, have gradually
turned their hands to illustration and design while still maintaining their grafFiti practice and style. In doing so they have designed and produced, logos and illustrations, shoes, and fashion for the likes of Nike, Adidas, Lamborghini, Coca Cola, Stussy, Sony, Nasdaq and more.
123 klan website
Stussy released a special "Artist Series" collection to celebrate their 20th anniversary. For the occasion they invited us, along with artists such as Futura2000, Kaws and Todd "Reas" James, to each create a special edition shirt.The concept was to redesign the names of each of the cities where Stussy has a Flagship store on the front, and on the back, the names of the ghettos of these same towns plus two more (chosen by the artist). The shirts were then made available in 3 different colors (black, white and green), in a pack containing the artist's biography.
Paul Curtis (Moose)reverse graf%iti
The global pictureBomb It is an international grafFiti and street art documentary directed by award-‐winning director Jon Reiss and premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
Free Art Friday• Free Art Friday is an art movement in which artists place free art out in
public for people to enjoy and take home.
• Here is how it works:Create a piece of art.
• write on an attached tag "free art friday, to take home and enjoy". Adding artist name, email,or web address is optional.
• Hide somewhere in public indoors or out.• Some make a game out of it and leave clues on Twitter
Sam 3 (Spain)Murcia 2010
Uses only black paint
“naked idea” expressed in sillhouetteComment on societyWalls buildings and billboards are backdrops for his shadow puppetryCity turns into stage, working with narrative and found situs
VHILS aka Alexandre Farto (Portugal)London 2008
In situPlaster chipped off wall to create sculptural reliefLeke St tunnel beneath Waterloo StationPart of Banksys Cans festival
Faith 71• Amsterdam• Red stickers round a natural hole in plaster• Bridges the gap between hyperealist art and hyperabstract art effortlessly
Diva (Brooklyn)
Street/anonymity/graff names means gender is not always apparent
Assumption to do with the perception that the street at night is not safeStenciling or wheat paste takes less timeFeminine kind of lettering
Fa%i (France)
Cartoonish sexualityFaFinettes reminiscent of Japanese mangaLike Kat and Miss Van
Miss Van
Herakut
Swoon
US female wheatpasteStudied paintingStarted around 1999Historical and folk characters
Art of Resistance
JRPeople pulling facesNear Bethlehem
Banksy, 2005
• “The Israeli government is building a wall surrounding the occupied Palestinian territories. It stands three times the height of the Berlin Wall and will eventually run for over 700km-‐ the distance from London to Zurich. The wall is illegal under international law and essentially turns Palestine into the worlds largest open prison. It also makes it the ultimate activity holiday destination for grafFiti writers.”
Graf%iti in %ilm• 80 Blocks from Tiffany's (1979) – A rare glimpse into late '70s New
York towards the end of the infamous South Bronx gangs. The documentary shows many sides of the mainly Puerto Rican community of the South Bronx, including reformed gang members, current gang members, the police, and the community leaders who try to reach out to them.
• Style Wars (1983), an early documentary on hip hop culture, made in New York City
• "Exit Through The Gift Shop" (2010) is a documentary produced by the notorious artist Banksy tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. Shepard Fairey and Invader (artist), who Guetta discovers is his cousin, are also in the %ilm.
• Bomb it (2007) Tells the story of contemporary graf%iti, tracing its roots in ancient rock paintings through Picasso to its place in hip-‐hop culture in 1970's New York City. Director Jon Reiss