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RONE Award
Tyrone Wright (born 1980), better known by his pseudonym Rone, is an Australian street artist based in Melbourne. History Rone grew up in a rural location outside Geelong, Victoria, before moving to Melbourne in 2001. In 2002, he started decorating skateboards and skate parks before beginning to put Past, paste-ups and Stencil art, stencils on walls around Melbourne. He creates "John Doe, Jane Doe" images. In the earlier years of his career, Rone used to use wheat pasting to do quick paste-ups in busy locations, but later work on the streets are mostly created using traditional painting materials such as rollers and paintbrushes. Some of the locations he has painted include New York City, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, Berlin, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Havana, Christchurch, and Port Vila. Rone’s work is now in galleries. His work has been acquisitioned by institutions the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
