Well that was a waste of time. It’s the same guy, and it’s on his youtube account.
Also, sort of in the same vein as the reverse graffiti, a lot of what Graffiti Research Lab does is just light.
Then there’s stuff like this.
There are clips of Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen you could check out on the Art 21 website.
No, glorifying them is the problem. They were two-bit thugs who were ambushed and slaughtered. That’s all they are. Glorifing the vandalism is the issue.
I like my art Daley-style, that’s when the Chicago graffiti blasters come in and remove everything the vandals have put up. It’s beautiful on so many levels.
Both of you are warned for threadshitting and ignoring mod instructions. I said yesterday that this tangent was finished in this thread. jackdavinci, please pay more attention in the future.
Also, Doug ‘Dug1’ Cunningham. Can’t believe I forgot him earlier.
My husband and I own Wave Twisters and watch it a couple of times a year. The artwork is fantastic, as is the music. I love it and highly recommend it.
Sorry I missed that post the first time around.
Shepard Fairey IS the guy who did the Obama Hope poster.
ETA: Never mind…missed that there was a second page.
Hey, guys – you want to be all cranky like this, why aren’t you posting in the Pit? In fact, why are you posting in this thread?
The OP came in here with no malice toward anyone here, with a valid question, asking our opinions on the best graffiti artists.
And you made no effort to help him. And went out of your way to criticize his even asking the question.
I consider graffiti illegal, but since that wasn’t what he asked, I’m going to shut up until I can research some “Good Graffiti”, and maybe help someone here, instead of turning an entire thread into a thread-shit.
Missed the edit window to say “Yeah, what Marley said.”
…and to mention that I’m rethinking starting any threads here, especially that “Best place to harpoon pregnant porpoises?” discussion.
Picasso would get a slap because he was a big phony, Rembrandt would get invited in for a beer.
I wouldn’t mind too much if Van Goch graffitied my house either.
Anyone remember the episode of The Partridge Family, in which some eccentric Russian artist painted a mural on their garage door as a gift? However, the mural was of a nude female, which upset the neighbors. In the end the family donated the garage door to a museum, rather than paint over a work by a well-known artist.
Another one a really liked was a guy in Taipei who called himself Bbrother (and he put his email address on a lot of them). I have a bunch of pictures of his stuff on a harddrive, but I keep forgetting to take them off. There always pretty simple stencil stuff though.
A lot of people think that Picasso did cubism because he lacked the talent for more conventional work, but he did actually produce quite good conventional paintings earlier in his career. He did cubism because he wanted to, not because he had to. Now, you can maybe argue that he should have stuck with more conventional styles, or that he wouldn’t be famous were it not for cubism, but I know that he certainly had more talent than I do.
The Tate Modern did an extensive exhibit on street art a couple years back, including having the outside of the gallery done up well. Really cool stuff. http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetart/
There’s some great stuff there. I really like Os Gemeos (who was mentioned above). Thanks!
I’m sure Lust4Life is aware of Picasso’s whole work and is judging him from there, but I do know a lot of people who really do think that he wasn’t able to do conventional art. Of course that wasn’t true.
I also know a lot of people who think their kid could do anything Pollock could do. I’m always like, Listen, even if your kid could do his more abstract stuff (they can’t), I promise you, they can not do everything Pollock could do.
John “Crash” Matos did a series of paintjobs on Stratocastersthat Clapton and a few others used…(link to 'zine article - scroll to the bottom for links to photos of all the guitar bodies…
I’ve skimmed thru this thread a couple times over the past week or so, and while I see a lot of great artists mentioned, I haven’t noticed anyone yet mention the amazing 1984 film Style Wars.
The DVD has a whole gallery of over 200 cars and not only features artwork but also interviews with Blade, Cap, Crash, Dondi, Seen, TC5, IZ the Wiz, and my favorite, Skeme.
There’s about 25 or 30 other artists featured as well; check out the IMDB page.
I’ve owned this since it’s release on DVD, having seen it during it’s original run once. I can highly recommend it for viewing, and if you have the money and are into the art (and/or music and/or dance), I’d encourage you to just get yourself a copy.
We’ve been focusing largely on the graffiti side of this, but there are other kinds of street art. Namely, the guys who use light (not projection, as mentioned above). This stop-motion isn’t outside, but there are a lot of guys who do this in the streets. I think there’s a French guy/group that’s pretty well known for this.