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Montana Colors
Montana Colors, also known as MTN, or sometimes Spanish Montana (to distinguish it from German brand Montana Cans), is an art company founded by Jordi Rubio in Barcelona in 1994. The majority of its products are designed for use in graffiti. They are considered to be one of the best spray paint brands in the world. Collaborations In a collaboration with Beyond the Streets, MTN have created custom paint cans with artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, André (artist), André, Chor Boogie, Ron English, Mister Cartoon, and Shepard Fairey, Shephard Fairey as well as brands Carhartt, Carharrt and Casio. And apaint named Rita Grey in honour of Spanish politician Rita Barberá being "responsible for the disappearance of countless amounts of graffiti." Montana Colors have sponsored street art festivals in Australia, the USA most notably Beyond the Streets, Beyond The Streets. Relationship with Montana Cans Montana Cans, a German paint brand, began in 1995 after Montan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mtn Logo
MTN may refer to: * an abbreviation of mountain * MTN Group, mobile telephone network operator African and the Middle East **MTN-Qhubeka, cycling team sponsored by the telephone company * Maritime Telecommunications Network, satellite phone network * Martin State Airport, Baltimore, US, IATA code * Mauritania, IOC and ITU code * Manitoba Television Network, former branding of CHMI-TV, now known as Citytv Winnipeg * MTN (TV station), Griffith, New South Wales, Australia * Medium term note, a debt note * Michigan Talk Network, radio network * Metriol trinitrate, a liquid explosive similar to nitroglycerin * Montana Television Network, US * Montenegro, UNDP-Code * Mountain Air Cargo, ICAO airline designator * MountainWest Sports Network, dedicated to the Mountain West Conference * Multilateral trade negotiations, trade talks associated with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and World Trade Organization * Mountain Dew (stylized as Mtn Dew), carbonated soft drink {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron English
Ron English (born June 6, 1959) is an American contemporary artist who explores brand imagery, street art, and advertising. Career English has produced images on the street, in museums, in movies, books and television. He coined the term POPaganda to describe a mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history, populated with his original characters, including MC Supersized, the obese fast-food mascot featured in the movie ''Super Size Me'', and Abraham Obama, the fusion of America's 16th and 44th Presidents. Other characters in English's paintings, billboards, and sculpture include three-eyed rabbits, cowgirls and grinning skulls – visual, with humorous undertones. English was interviewed for the documentary ''Super Size Me'' (2004), which showed his McDonald's-themed artwork—inspired by his belief about the effect of fast food franchises and restaurant chains on American culture – "MC Supersized". "Abraham Obama", made dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companies Established In 1994
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Over time, companies have evolved to have the following features: "separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, investor ownership, and a managerial hierarchy". The company, as an entity, was created by the state which granted the privilege of incorporation. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is to generate sales, revenue, and profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duties according to the publicly declared incorporation pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Barberá
María Rita Barberá Nolla (16 July 1948 – 23 November 2016) was a Spanish politician who was the mayor of Valencia from 1991 until 2015. Biography and political career Born in Valencia to a prominent industrial and political family, she was a member of the National Council of the People's Party (Spain), People's Party of Spain and was a Representative in the Valencian regional Parliament (Corts Valencianes). She turned down an offer to become a national deputy at the 2008 Spanish General Election, but her party made her a senator after she lost the 2015 Valencia City Council election, 2015 municipal elections. As such, she became answerable only to the Supreme Court of Spain, Supreme Court, and the ordinary judge in charge of the ''Taula'' corruption case could therefore not indict her like the rest of her team. 2016 judicial case and death On 21 April 2016, this investigating judge therefore requested her indictment for money laundering to the Supreme Court. On 13 Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casio
is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. It was founded in 1946, and in 1957 introduced the first entirely compact electronic calculator. It was an early digital camera innovator, and during the 1980s and 1990s, the company developed numerous affordable home electronic keyboards for musicians along with introducing the first mass-produced digital watches. History Casio was established as Kashio Seisakujo in April 1946 by (1917–1993), an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. Kashio's first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free. Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II, so cigarettes were valuable, and the inventi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carhartt
Carhartt, Inc. is an American clothing company founded in 1889, known for heavy-duty work wear such as jackets, coats, overalls, coveralls, vests, shirts, jeans, dungarees, fire-resistant clothing and hunting apparel. Carhartt remains a family-owned company, owned by the descendants of founder Hamilton Carhartt, with its headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. It is known for its slogan "True to This". Founding and history Carhartt was founded by Hamilton Carhartt in 1889 in Detroit, Michigan, to make work clothing for manual laborers. The company started with two sewing machines and five workers. Carhartt's first slogan was "Honest value for an honest dollar." The company's initial expansion in the 1890s focused on railroad workers' need for strong and long-lasting work clothes. Carhartt worked closely with local railroad workers to ensure that his work bibs met their needs. Within 20 years of its founding, Carhartt had expanded its facilities into eight other cities, including locatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. In 1989, he designed the " Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (...OBEY...) sticker campaign while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Fairey designed the Barack Obama "Hope" poster for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, has described him as one of the best known and most influential street artists. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His style has been described as a "bold iconic style that is based on styling and idealizing images." Early life Shepard Fairey was born an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mister Cartoon
Mark Machado, better known as Mister Cartoon or more commonly just Cartoon or Toon, is an American tattoo artist and graffiti artist based in Los Angeles, California. He has been described by the ''New York Times'' as an "instrumental figure in the Los Angeles hip-hop scene" and by the ''BBC'' as "one of the greatest living tattoo artists in the US". Growing up in the Harbor area of Los Angeles County, young Cartoon began doing illustrations and graffiti then going on to airbrushing clothing and lowrider A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among Mexican American youth in the 1940s. ''Lowrider'' also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs, which remain a part of Chi ... custom cars. Machado then moved on to working in the music industry doing album covers, tour merchandise and later tattooing recording artists and other celebrities. Machado's style of art is part of the Chicano art movement and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chor Boogie
Chor Boogie (born Jason Lamar Hailey) is an American spray paint artist based in San Francisco, California. Boogie and his wife Elizabeth Bast, a former sex worker, are currently under investigation after charging a woman $7000 to be given the psychedellic root iboga, which resulted in the woman's death. Biography Chor Boogie was born Jason Lamar Hailey in Oceanside, California in 1979. He was introduced to art in general at the age of five by a teacher in grade school, after which he decided he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. He first used spray paint at age 10, and chose the name "Chore" for himself at age 11 (later dropping the "e") to describe his enjoyment of art from a professional standpoint. He did not receive formal art training, because spray paint was discouraged as art. He later began to volunteer as the director of mural projects for Writers Block, a San Diego group that created art with high school students. He curated shows at the San Diego Museum of Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Materials
Media, or mediums, are the core types of material (or related other tools) used by an artist, composer, designer, etc. to create a work of art. For example, a visual artist may broadly use the media of painting or sculpting, which themselves have more specific media within them, such as watercolor paints or marble. The following is a list of artistic categories and the media used within each category: Architecture *Cement, concrete, mortar * Cob *Glass *Metal *Stone, brick *Wood Carpentry *Adhesives *Wood (timber) Ceramics *Bone china *Clay * Glaze *Porcelain *Pottery * Terracotta *Tile Drawing Common drawing materials * Acrylic paint *Chalk *Charcoal * Colored pencil * Conté *Crayon * Encaustic *Fresco * Glitter * Gouache *Graphite * Ink * Intaglio *Oil paint * Glass paint * Pastel *Pixel *Printmaking * Sketch * Tempera *Watercolor Common supports (surfaces) for drawing *Canvas *Card stock *Concrete *Fabric *Glass *Human body *Metal *Paper *Papyrus *Parchment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André (artist)
André Saraiva ( Monsieur André and Monsieur A) born 2 July 1971. Known mononymously as André, is a Swedish-French artist best known for his work in graffiti. Amongst his creations is Mr. A which he has painted across all six inhabited continents. His work has been featured in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, MoCA as in feature films such as ''Exit Through the Gift Shop''. As an entrepreneur, he owns restaurants, nightclubs such as Le Baron, and hotel chains such as Hotel Amour. Early life André Saraiva was born on 2 July 1971 in Uppsala, Sweden, where his Portuguese parents had fled the military regime of António de Oliveira Salazar, Salazar.Katell Pouliquen, " André, graffeur gâté ", ''L'Express'', November 1, 2004 His mother was a translator and his father was a painter. André moved to Paris at the age of 10, and started graffiti art at the age of thirteen. Career Artist In 1986, André started tagging a top-hatted, stick figure characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Haring
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the Graffiti in New York City, New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as ''documenta'' in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997. Haring's popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in New York City Subway, New York City subways: chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising spaces. After gaining public recognition, he created colorful larger scale murals, many commissioned. He produced more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
