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Shelley’s Art Musings: The complexities of illegal art
In my last article, I wrote about my personal views on street art, and how I saw this as art for the masses. I briefly touched on how the majority of street art and graffiti is illegal, with only the most well-known or outstanding artists becoming almost household names and their work being commissioned to adorn walls. In a twist of fate, a news story recently broke about the complexities of this type of art and the issues it can present in terms of ownership and copyright, which presents us with a really interesting question over what is right and fair in this arena. To give you an idea of…
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Shelley’s Art Musing: Street Art – an Art for the Masses
When people talk about art, what is the first thing you thinking of? Probably pictures hanging in galleries, or sculptures out of marble. You probably don’t automatically think of things like street art, as there is still a little bit of a stigma with some people around this type of art. It is often thought that art is an elitist subject, but street art brings itself to its audience, coming out of the galleries, becoming easily accessible and free to see. Some people will class anything they see painted on walls as graffiti, but there is a very distinct difference between graffiti and street art. The difference is intention. Graffiti…
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L’Art du graffiti
Le mouvement graffiti commença avec les expositions à la galerie Fashion Moda, à la Fun Gallery, au Mudd Club, et autres espaces ouverts au début des années 1980. Puis il s’étendit aux galeries établies de SoHo, de la 57e Rue, et du Salon de l’Art de Bâle. Il prit fin, quelques années plus tard, quand l’attention des critiques, des marchands d’art et des collectionneurs se porta vers de nouveaux engouements. Il existe nombre de raisons qui expliquent que les graffeurs du métro n’ont jamais reçu l’attention sérieuse donnée à leurs pairs. Tout d’abord, les compositions sur lesquelles ils basèrent leurs carrières, les voitures entières qui monopolisèrent l’attention, soit positive, soit négative…
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Basquiat: Liberator of both Word and Image
Before he was Jean-Michel Basquiat, the wild child prince of the 1980s art world, Basquiat was working with fellow street artist Al Diaz under the pseudonym SAMO, short for “Same Old Shit,” up until 1979. The duo spray painted barbed, deeply meaningful aphorisms across Lower Manhattan (the entirety of which have been photographed by Henry Flynt), such as “SAMO as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy,” “SAMO as an escape clause” and countless others. Basquiat himself was practicing both symbolic and literal escapism, he himself left home before graduating high school. Like many artists, stringing a few chosen letters together in order to craft an anonymous…
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Le Pressure Art ou LA MAUVAISE RÉPUTATION
Vandales Casseurs Délinquants Artistes ? Murs, mobiliers urbains, wagons, rien ne les arrête, rien ne leur échappe. Les villes ont beau voter des lois, prendre des mesures restrictives, punitives, condamner, effacer, nettoyer, cela ne change rien. L’art du graffiti a quarante ans, et ce n’est plus un enfant, mais un homme d’âge mûr, qui sait ce qu’il risque et qui apprécie ce risque ; c’est un jeu, un métier, un art, pratiqué en toute conscience. L’exposition tant attendue en France consacrée aux chefs-d’œuvre du Pressure Art (ou pressionnisme) a ouvert ses portes en mars et se poursuit jusqu’au 13 septembre à la Pinacothèque de Paris ; on en parlait déjà ici en…
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Graffiti und Street Art in Berlin – ist das nun jut oder nicht so jut?
Manches kann nur in Städten funktionieren. Graffiti und Street Art gehören dazu. Ich komme vom Land und wenn jemand dort den örtlichen Getränkemarkt nächtlich mit seiner Kunst „beglückt“, ist das „Vandalismus“! „Schmiererei“! Die Empörung ist groß und nach 48 Std. ist das Kunstwerk meistens wieder beseitigt. Berlin ist eine große Stadt. Eine bunte Hauptstadt, genauer gesagt. Schrill, laut, extrem beliebt. Ihre Straßenkunst gibt ihr ein einzigartiges Gesicht. Für eine Zeit lang verschlug es mich in diese verrückte Metropole, ich radelte fast täglich an Touristengruppen vorbei, die eine besondere Stadtführung, eine „Street-Art-Tour“ gebucht hatten, eine Führung über und zu Berlins buntesten Häusern und Straßen. Ich sah den „Spaceman“ jeden Tag, für…
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The Venetian (Beach) School
Before Arnold Schwarzenegger made it to Sacramento, or even to Hollywood, he could be found lifting weights at Muscle Beach in Venice. Very much like its Italian namesake, Venice Beach in Los Angeles is home to the artistic and the creative. But unlike the artists from the original Venice, those of the Los Angeles beach town paint beyond the canvas, and onto the streets. Amongst the street art found along the walls is Homage to Starry Night. The large mural replicating Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, occasionally the ‘tagged’ over, is found on the side of an apartment building, behind a ‘No Parking’ street sign. The treatment and placement…
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