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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2009 12:24:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 2, 2009 14:51:42 GMT
That is some amazing stuff! I'm particularly struck by the 3rd and 4th pictures from the bottom -- in particular the section featured in the 4th pic from the bottom. It's a great piece of design and execution.
Street art is the defining word for what you show. The ugly defacing tagging that is all over Oaxaca is depressing and upsetting. There was a real flowering of actual street art during the protests of '06. That was the only time the local government did anything about stopping or covering up graffiti.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2009 17:35:18 GMT
The burning towers were the first section of the wall to be "defaced." They are no longer visible.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2009 18:53:35 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 4, 2009 0:01:04 GMT
Just incredible! The downright mastery of perspective and technical problems, not to mention the facile lines and airbrushing techniques just blow me away.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2009 12:17:59 GMT
I came across a new set of walls in a different neighborhood this morning. The style is completely different. On the artist's website, you can even see this mural being painted if you click on the video. www.dacruz.biz
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 19, 2009 16:09:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2009 6:41:57 GMT
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Post by bjd on Apr 29, 2009 12:24:36 GMT
Whenever I see wall art like some of that posted above, I am surprised at how many talented painters are out there. I talked to a couple of guys painting a wall near where I live and asked whether it wasn't difficult to spray with cans rather than do the details with a brush. They told me that the advantage of spray paint is that it dries right away so they can do several colours and layers in a short time.
As much as I dislike the scribbles and mindless defacing that is the usual case, I am really impressed with the skill and imagination of some of what I see. I Berlin last year I took lots of photos of the walls in the neighbourhood I stayed in (Kreuzberg) -- there was some great stuff there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2009 13:25:36 GMT
The link in Reply #7 is really an entire encyclopedia of street art! Note in the comments below the main article that there are further links posted by readers.
One thing that really struck me when looking through that compendium is that there is no naive/primitive/folk art whatsoever -- none. You'd think that a form with such an expedient canvas would have produced some talented unschooled artists, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Either that, or taggers who graduate to pictorial representation are getting trained by those already skilled in wall art, which considering level of design, mastery of principles of perspective, shading, etc., hardly seems possible.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2009 13:36:54 GMT
The link in Reply #7 is really an entire encyclopedia of street art! Note in the comments below the main article that there are further links posted by readers. I put a link there and it was removed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2009 14:04:19 GMT
Really?! Did you get a notification or anything? Censored because of racy content? Strange.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 30, 2009 16:04:08 GMT
Street art goes upscale! Be sure to check out the slideshow in this article.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2009 5:32:47 GMT
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Post by imec on Jul 29, 2009 11:50:01 GMT
Wow, some great stuff! The 4th one looks like a picture of Dali to me
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2009 17:07:00 GMT
We can almost but not quite read the Myspace address next to Dali.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2009 18:44:58 GMT
You are obviously not giving my pictures sufficient scrutiny. It's visible in the 2nd set of pics, extreme lower right.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2009 13:29:18 GMT
You have to see this slide show! (and ignore the text of the article, pointlessly repeated alongside the slides)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2009 18:25:06 GMT
Really excellent art, but I wonder how many artists actually painted temporary works on walls before they could be immortalized in color photographs.
There must have been a few, but I think it would have been too painful for most people to know that their works would disappear without a trace after so much work.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2009 18:45:14 GMT
Some excellent art on here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2009 22:19:04 GMT
Really excellent art, but I wonder how many artists actually painted temporary works on walls before they could be immortalized in color photographs. There must have been a few, but I think it would have been too painful for most people to know that their works would disappear without a trace after so much work. But aren't all street artists working under that stricture? At the beginning of this thread you pointed out that one of the best things in the group of walls you showed was one of the first things to be defaced, then eradicated. From the very beginning of their careers, hit&run grafitti artists must accept the short life span of their work. Ha ~~ kind of flips the old saying, Ars longa, vita brevis.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 4, 2009 22:26:48 GMT
I am sure the artwork above is very talented but I also find most of it quite disturbing. I wouldn't want to have to look out of my house at any of that. It's ok to pass it by once but neither would I like to have to walk past it every day. (NIMBY) (Not in my back yard).
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 7, 2009 0:00:00 GMT
We have an ongoing debate here in Tucson on what is "street art" and what is grafetti. Our city spends enormous amounts of money trying to get rid of the gang tags.
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Post by tigronette on Aug 14, 2009 7:05:09 GMT
The quality of street art in Paris is quite amazing, there's an ongoing graffitti wall near my home where people go and spray paint over whatever's been done before (rue Denoyez if you want to get your cameras out)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2009 17:37:29 GMT
Don't you have a camera, tigronette?
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Post by tigronette on Aug 21, 2009 8:18:50 GMT
I have a shitty camer
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Post by tigronette on Aug 21, 2009 8:20:27 GMT
(argh) a phone. I lost my Coolpix in Nice a few years ago and didn't bother getting a new one. Maybe this could be an opportunity. There's also a street art exhibition at the Fondation Cartier (or there was, it may be over now)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 19:37:00 GMT
Here's one I spotted in Montreal, I thought it was kind of funny:
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Post by fumobici on Sept 13, 2009 13:48:34 GMT
Mainstream art has become such an inbred world of people trying desperately to seem clever in the narrrow range of whatever is currently deemed acceptable or simply fashionably obfuscate, these displays often speak to me far more than gallery art.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 31, 2009 6:54:21 GMT
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