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Street Art
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art. Street art has evolved from the early forms of defiant graffiti into a more commercial form of art, as one of the main differences now lies with the messaging. Street art is often meant to provoke thought rather than rejection among the general audience through making its purpose more evident than that of graffiti. The issue of permission has also come at the heart of street art, as graffiti is usually done illegally, whereas street art can nowadays be the product of an agreement or even sometimes a commission. However, it remains different from traditional art exposed in public spaces by its explicit use of said space in the conception phase. Background Street art is a form of artwork that is displayed in public on surrounding buildings, on streets, trains and other publicly viewed surfaces. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C215 (street Artist)
C215 is the moniker of Christian Guémy, a French street artist from Paris who has been described as "France's answer to Banksy". Artwork C215 primarily uses Stencil, stencils to produce his art. His first stencil work was put up in 2006, but he has been a graffiti artist for () over 20 years. His work consists mainly of close up portraits of people. C215's subjects are typically those such as beggars, homeless people, refugees, street kids and the elderly. The rationale behind this choice of subject is to draw attention to those that society has forgotten about. Cats are another frequent subject of his work. C215 is a prolific street artist and has practiced his art in cities all over the world. His stencils may be seen in Barcelona, Amsterdam, London, Rome, Paris, Oslo, Colombo and different cities of Morocco. In October 2014, C215 visited Valletta, Malta, because of his interest in Caravaggio as well as 17th-century religious architecture. He produced various examples of str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Installation
Street installations are a form of street art and installation art. While conventional street art is done on walls and surfaces street installations use three-dimensional objects set in an urban environment. Like graffiti, it is generally non-permission based and the installation is effectively abandoned by the artist upon completion. Street Installations sometimes have an interactive component. Artists Notable artist in the field include: * Above *BIBI *Banksy * Bleeps.gr * Brad Downey * El Celso * Graffiti Research Lab * Harmen de Hoop * Invader (artist) * Manfred Kielnhofer *Lennie Lee * Leon Reid IV * Lionel (artist) * Mark Divo * Mark Jenkins * Joe Mangrum * Mark McGowan * Nsumi * Paige Smith (A Common Name) * TEJN * Dan Witz See also *Art intervention *Culture jamming *Installation art * Lock On street sculptures References External links * Wooster Collective Wooster Collective is a website founded in 2003 that showcases street art from around the world. The New York Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College of Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia. Mead served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975. Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic. Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context of Western cultural traditions. Early life and education Margaret Mead, the first of five children, was born in Philadelphia but raised in nearby Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Balancing
Rock balancing (also stone balancing, or stacking) is a form of recreation or artistic expression in which Rock (geology), rocks are piled in balanced stacks, often in a precarious manner. Conservationists and park services have expressed concerns that the arrangements of rocks can disrupt animal habitats, accelerate soil erosion, and misdirect hikers in areas that use Cairn, cairns as navigation waypoints. Process During the 2010s, rock balancing became popular around the world, popularised through images of the rocks being shared on social media. Balanced rocks vary from simple stacks of two or three stones, to arrangements of round or sharp stones balancing in precarious and seemingly improbable ways. Professional rock-balancing artist Michael Grab, who can spend hours or minutes on a piece of rock balancing, says that his aim when stacking the stones is "to make it look as impossible as possible", and that the larger the size of the top rock, the more improbable the str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarn Bombing
Yarn bombing (or yarnbombing) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. It is also called wool bombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting, or graffiti knitting. Motivation While other forms of graffiti may be expressive, decorative, territorial, socio-political commentary, advertising or vandalism, yarn bombing was initially almost exclusively about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places. It has since developed with groups graffiti knitting and crocheting worldwide, each with their own agendas and public graffiti knitting projects being run. According to Manuela Farinosi and Leopoldina Fortunati, yarn bombing has become synonymous with the current feminist movement due in part to the reclamation of the traditionally feminine arts of knitting and crocheting to partake in the traditionally masculine and male-dominated graffiti scene. The wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodblock Graffiti
A number of words and phrases that have come to describe different styles and aspects of graffiti and its subculture. Like other jargon and colloquialisms, some of these terms may vary regionally, taking on different meanings across different cities and countries. The following terminology originates primarily in the United States. A–D ;angels :Famous or respected graffitist who has died. The people who admire them tag their names on a wall with halos above them or make tribute pieces with their faces or tag with the dates of their birth to death. ;anti style :A form of graffiti that deliberately flouts graffiti norms; also called ignorant style or hipster style. ;all city :To mark surfaces with graffiti throughout the entirety of a given city, usually with aerosol paint, and to be widely recognized for these efforts. ;autorack :Type of freight rail car that is tall, long, low, and flat. ;back-to-back :Graffiti that covers a wall from end-to-end, as seen on some parts of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheatpaste
Wheatpaste (also known as flour and water paste, flour paste, or simply paste) is a gel or liquid adhesive made from wheat flour or starch and water. It has been used since antiquity for various arts and crafts such as bookbinding, ''Decoupage, découpage'', collage, papier-mâché, and adhering paper posters and notices to walls. Types A critical difference among wheat pastes is the division between those made from flour and those made from starch. Vegetable flours contain both gluten and starch. Over time the gluten in a flour paste Cross-link, cross-links, making it very difficult to release the adhesive. Using only starch, a fine quality, fully reversible paste can be produced. The latter is the standard adhesive for paper conservation. Besides wheat, other vegetables also are processed into flours and starches from which pastes can be made, such as potato starch: characteristics, such as strength and reversibility, vary with the plant species; manufacturer's processing; and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lock On (street Art)
Lock On is a genre of street art, where artists create installations by attaching sculptures to public furniture using lengths of chain and old bike locks. The installations themselves are referred to as "a Lock On" (''singular'') or "Lock Ons" (''plural''). Style A Lock On is art in a public space, typically attached to a fence or street lamp with some sort of padlock, without permission. The Lock On style is a "non-destructive" form of underground art. Artists * REVS is the tag name of a New York City graffiti artist whose sculpture, wheat paste stickers and roller pieces have earned him a reputation of an artist provocateur. In New York, steel sculptures created with construction-grade steel and spelling "''Revs''" can be found around Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. * TEJN is considered the "founder" of the Lock On phrase. Taking scrap metal from urban areas, TEJN welds and shapes the iron into figurative sculptures which he "returns to the street" as site-specific art secu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sticker Art
Sticker art (also known as slaps in a graffiti context) is a form of street art in which an image or message is publicly displayed using stickers. These stickers may promote a political agenda, comment on a policy or issue, or comprise a subcategory of graffiti. Sticker artists use various types of stickers, from eggshell stickers to free paper stickers, such as the United States Postal Service's Label 228 or name tags. Part of their popularity in street art comes from being a faster, and therefore safer, option in illegal graffiti. History Name tag stickers that were printed with the text "Hello my name is" were first introduced by C-Line Products in 1959 and became widely used in both graffiti and sticker art. In 1989 Shepard Fairey created the sticker '' Andre the giant has a posse'' and it has been recognised as an early example of printed sticker art in the United States. The first European (and non-American) sticker art project is that by Piermario Ciani, initially start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stencil Graffiti
Stencil graffiti is a form of graffiti that makes use of stencils made out of paper, cardboard, or other media to create an image or text that is easily reproducible. The desired design is cut out of the selected medium and then the image is transferred to a surface through the use of Aerosol paint, spray paint or roll-on paint. The process of stencilling involves applying paint across a stencil to form an image on a surface below. Sometimes multiple layers of stencils are used on the same image to add colors or create the illusion of Three-dimensional space, depth. Stencils can be done quickly. Together with being cheap and easily repeatable, the short amount of time required to paint a single stencil illegally onto a wall is a key characteristic that makes stenciling attractive. History Stencil graffiti as an art form began in the 1960s. Today it is usually a part of Street Art, in style writing graffiti stencils are not used much or their use is often disguised or not val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
