Street art

After reading both great essays on the Guerilla Street Art and Freegans, I gained a new understanding on both subjects. Both readers were very descriptive, opening up a compassion in me that I never explored. I enjoyed reading about the Freegans the most due to the fact that I have friends that live a relatively similar lifestyle; however, I call them dumpster divers. I never knew there was an actual definition for someone that lived off of another’s trash. Now I can understand why they do what…

administration. He took his love for art and the love in thrill seeking to create something that could be shared on a larger scale. The same could be said for Keith Haring. In life his art was his lifestyle connecting his LGBT rights to his art, and in death his patterns being using in popular articles of clothing. These are two examples of people who had their love of art shared for the world because they love art, but there are those who are part of the street art movement solely to capitalize…

nor restrictions for this strict. Most artwork here was done in almost exquisite styles and were likely from the hands of local Shanghai elites who bear a complicated feeling towards this fast developing city and their childhood memories. Unlike the street artists in Melbourne, the local artists knew well of the destined short life of their work and that they can hardly outrun the urban management teams. The pace in…

The “Father of Graffiti” (Silver, 2014), Blek Le Rat (or Xavier Prou) (Sherwin, 2011) is a notorious street artist who innovatively used the Urbanscape as a mean for presenting his art through stencilling as a form of replication. BLR took his inspiration from 1970s street art and graffiti he was inundated with in New York and adapted his own theme of art he believed suited Paris from it. His rat stencils brought rise to fame as he painted them around France during the beginning of his career.…

property outlaw who, in fact, improves property and should be awarded preservation and means by which it can be achieved. Banksy took the art world by a storm and penetrated the traditional art market, the commercial industry, and the perception of the general public. His work is admired by the art collectors, the art dealers, the celebrities, the art scholars, and the general public overall. Every Banksy piece found immediately takes the spotlight and is wanted across the world. Banksy,…

something subversive and anti-mainstream gets co-opted for commercial purposes. Converse presented street art as graffiti in style and motivation however the artists used were being commissioned. “Street cred is a convincing command or display of the style, fashions, knowledge etc associated with urban counterculture “ Collins Dictionary, 2014. This union has lead to the commercialization of street credibility.…

More than 8,000 people get arrested each year for expressing themselves through their astonishing artwork. Many people mistake street writers and street artists beautifully crafted work that they put their emotion, time, and dedication into for vandalism. Graffiti remains completely harmless, not a crime and it should be legalized so that artists can show off their prized artwork and talent, feel free to express themselves, and catch people’s attention. Graffiti should be recognized as artwork…

Paintting and writing on walls is nothing new for this era. In prehistoric times , people in Africa and Europe painted pictures of animal, tings and people in caves . Graffiti has been found in plenty of ancient sites such as Greece,Italy , Toronto, and Iraq. In the Roman towns of Italy, archaeologists found plenty of graffiti written in Latin and other Languages, including romantic and harsh messgaes. In the 1960’s , young adults in New York City used untensils to write their Initals, or…

developed into the higher art of the Renaissance and ensuing periods in history. Today, in addition to art in its traditional expression, alternative variants have made their appearance, causing heated discussions, graffiti among them. Some see graffiti as vandalism, a cancer spreading through cities, even an epidemic, indicating degradation of society for it is viewed as criminal behavior, as it uses one’s property without permission. For others, graffiti is a form of art due to its expressive…

about the emergent and exploitation of the street art genre directed by the reclusive street-art graffiti legend, also known as Banksy. The film came about when the world famous graffiti artist was approached by an eccentric French shop keeper, Thierry Guetta, who records his entire life with a video camera in order to capture the memory out of apparent relevance to the impromptu death of his mother when he was a child. Guetta was gaining interest in street art and wanted to make a documentary…