Art is something that has kept the city of Philadelphia such a huge tourist attraction. Besides the art museum steps that rocky runs up, and the fact that the Constitution and The Declaration of Independence were signed in the city, art from Philadelphia has had a huge impact on the art world. Graffiti, any writing or drawing that has been scratched or painted onto a wall or surface, usually in a public place, has been a large and long part of the art culture part of the art world in Philadelphia, it was considered a nuisance. With out graffiti in Philadelphia the Anti-Graffiti network would have never been founded. Mayor Wilson Goode created the Anti-Graffiti Network in 1984; Mayor Goode hired Darryl McCray, also known as Cornbread, to
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Those pieces were created as an expression of someone’s being. Yes, some of them may have been crude and unbearable to look at, but other graffiti artist had a tendency to cover those up anyways. The best part of riding on the train back to Philadelphia was always looking out the window and admiring the skill and danger it took to create the marvelous pieces on the walls. When seeing the work of Katharina Grosse it looks like a child spilled paint on the wail and outlined it in white. This whole project appears to be a way for the city of Philadelphia to cover as much of the “unwanted” graffiti with as little damage as possible. In comparison the work of the different artist looks more innovative and interesting than the work it is now buried under. The different styles of graffiti juxtaposed created its on mural, which cost the city absolutely nothing. It also gave some artist the chance to publish their work without having to pay obscene amounts of money to acquire a permit to make a boring gray steel and glass city more colorful and …show more content…
I just don’t understand why a city or an artist would want to cover up a piece of history. Psychlustro is to graffiti as Banksy is to the Mona Lisa. Banksy took an iconic image and changed it to fit his style and his message. Taking a look at Banksy’s Mona Lisa Shows Her Bum it is a satire of the iconic painting. It shows that every “serious” and “traditional” painting has a fun, possibly crude counterpart. This could also be seen in Marcel Duchamp’s version of the Mona Lisa, which has an added mustache and the letters “L.H.O.O.Q.”, which reportedly stands for “She has a fine Ass.” These two satires undermine the skill and time it took for Leonardo da Vinci to paint the original. This is the same for Katharina Grosse’s series psychlustro; it undermines the history and meaning behind graffiti. Graffiti started as a way for writers, a specialist of writing or a graffiti artist, and now artist to get their work out to the public without the charge of renting a gallery. It was also a way for people to send messages as well as get their name out around the world. Graffiti artists use to write on the outsides of trains, some still do but due to new cleaning procedures those pieces never see the light of day, because they knew that there was a possibility that their name could be seen in a state across the country even though they wrote it in New York. Graffiti could also express underlying
Those pieces were created as an expression of someone’s being. Yes, some of them may have been crude and unbearable to look at, but other graffiti artist had a tendency to cover those up anyways. The best part of riding on the train back to Philadelphia was always looking out the window and admiring the skill and danger it took to create the marvelous pieces on the walls. When seeing the work of Katharina Grosse it looks like a child spilled paint on the wail and outlined it in white. This whole project appears to be a way for the city of Philadelphia to cover as much of the “unwanted” graffiti with as little damage as possible. In comparison the work of the different artist looks more innovative and interesting than the work it is now buried under. The different styles of graffiti juxtaposed created its on mural, which cost the city absolutely nothing. It also gave some artist the chance to publish their work without having to pay obscene amounts of money to acquire a permit to make a boring gray steel and glass city more colorful and …show more content…
I just don’t understand why a city or an artist would want to cover up a piece of history. Psychlustro is to graffiti as Banksy is to the Mona Lisa. Banksy took an iconic image and changed it to fit his style and his message. Taking a look at Banksy’s Mona Lisa Shows Her Bum it is a satire of the iconic painting. It shows that every “serious” and “traditional” painting has a fun, possibly crude counterpart. This could also be seen in Marcel Duchamp’s version of the Mona Lisa, which has an added mustache and the letters “L.H.O.O.Q.”, which reportedly stands for “She has a fine Ass.” These two satires undermine the skill and time it took for Leonardo da Vinci to paint the original. This is the same for Katharina Grosse’s series psychlustro; it undermines the history and meaning behind graffiti. Graffiti started as a way for writers, a specialist of writing or a graffiti artist, and now artist to get their work out to the public without the charge of renting a gallery. It was also a way for people to send messages as well as get their name out around the world. Graffiti artists use to write on the outsides of trains, some still do but due to new cleaning procedures those pieces never see the light of day, because they knew that there was a possibility that their name could be seen in a state across the country even though they wrote it in New York. Graffiti could also express underlying