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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2009 10:55:52 GMT
It's interesting how the style of most of this art is so international and could be anywhere in the world.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 11, 2009 17:37:25 GMT
So true! I continue to wonder how about how these street artists get trained. (see my reply #9 in this thread)
Are they practicing on the interior walls of their homes? I suppose artists working on the huge, local govt-sanctioned walls are using compressors. But how do all those teenage boys across the world develop a mastery of proportion, draughtsmanship, and technique?
As far as the style goes, they must be studying each others work on the internet. Or .... ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2009 18:08:53 GMT
There must be a lot of scribbling in notebooks before they finally dare to do something real in paint other than 'placa' (which is what we called them in Los Angeles before the word 'tag' caught on).
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Post by fumobici on Nov 13, 2009 2:40:23 GMT
I suppose artists working on the huge, local govt-sanctioned walls are using compressors. Indirectly. This as far as I know is all done using hand held spray cans, so the compressor was in the paint factory. Watching these being done is fascinating to me as an artist, the degree it is done freehand with no underdrawing is astonishing. Paris street art is generally done to a very high standard.
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Post by bjd on Nov 13, 2009 10:22:35 GMT
The best street art I have seen was in Berlin -- really imaginative and well done. Rome's was really crappy. Mostly just tags of no interest whatsover.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 13, 2009 16:35:54 GMT
Seriously, Fumobici?! Of course I'm aware that spray cans are little compressors, but figured with money and opportunity, all those guys would use compressors. Of course, that might be too cumbersome. Even with underdrawing, the painting would be astonishing.
Bjd, you haven't seen hideous, pointless tagging until you've seen Oaxaca. So much of it is just ugly vandalism.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2009 18:03:12 GMT
Oh, that is everywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2009 0:18:50 GMT
Don't know if this technically qualifies as it is inside this guy's window on the street but he switches it out every week or so.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2009 22:47:48 GMT
Well, it looks like a wall!
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 24, 2009 23:08:53 GMT
Meant to be seen from the street, ergo, street art
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2009 7:05:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 6:03:08 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 17, 2009 6:22:54 GMT
Amazing stuff! I love the element in these of adding large blocks of pure color.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 7:38:34 GMT
This is a different wall from the other one, but you can see that one of the artists is the same.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2009 19:08:24 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 20, 2009 3:24:46 GMT
Those are great. I particularly like the last picture because of the juxtaposition of all the elements from different eras.
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Post by fumobici on Dec 27, 2009 2:28:47 GMT
Seattle has some nice street art, mostly near train tracks but it hasn't occurred to me to take pictures. My vote for worst street art: Amsterdam. Dreadful.
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Post by imec on Jan 4, 2010 3:20:56 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2010 4:57:35 GMT
Oh ~~ this is a departure from much of what's been shown previously. Were some of these commissioned by the city, and some by the building owners? What does the woman in the last one represent?
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Post by imec on Jan 4, 2010 13:55:38 GMT
Yes, I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post as they are in fact commissioned works. I honestly don't know what the woman in the last picture represents. All of these works are in a very depressed area of the city, largely populated by First Nations people as well as ethnic communities (largely east European/Ukrainian). I'll see what I can find out.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2010 14:33:57 GMT
They really are quite fabulous. Reminds me that there is a huge wall here that rotates out murals done by prisoners in The Parish Prison.Some phenomenal works over the years.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2010 15:38:46 GMT
Yes, I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post as they are in fact commissioned works. I honestly don't know what the woman in the last picture represents. All of these works are in a very depressed area of the city, largely populated by First Nations people as well as ethnic communities (largely east European/Ukrainian). I'll see what I can find out. Of course this is the right place. After all the thread is titled 'graphic street art' and not 'graffiti'. I have some commissioned walls in my own area which I might photograph soon.
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Post by bjd on Jan 4, 2010 15:51:40 GMT
This is a bike store in Berlin This is several floors up on a building in Kreuzberg And I don't know if this was commissioned but I find it amazing, still in Berlin
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Post by bjd on Jan 4, 2010 15:54:10 GMT
And this is the only funny thing we found in Rome
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Post by imec on Jan 4, 2010 15:54:17 GMT
Fantastic bjd!!! Oh, I love that last one!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 4, 2010 16:56:27 GMT
What wonderful art, Bjd, and your photos are fantastic. I love condom man and the population monster is creepy but brilliant.
I'm always pretty thrilled when I see good commercial co-optings of graffiti-as-artform, as in the bike store, or municipalities encouraging or even funding wall art.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2010 6:39:19 GMT
These are the concrete separators for the sporting areas at a local park.
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Post by fumobici on Jan 21, 2010 19:09:17 GMT
At the risk of sounding like a philistine, the best of those are IMO every bit the equal of contemporary art I've seen in prestigious galleries. I doubt the street artists could write the necessary obfuscatory supporting essays or chat up the clients at the openings properly though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2010 10:28:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2010 18:13:35 GMT
Those are excellent, Casimira. I hadn't seen them until just now. The street behind my apartment has become a jungle.
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