With a nod to Google's 4th of July doodle, taking a look at street art, AKA grafitti.
Let's start with Art Crimes - The Writing on the Wall, a site devoted to grafitti. Their subtitle pretty much says it all. However, many tag (another word for grafitti) artists that start with writing on the wall and move on to successful careers in art.
An example of an extremely successful move to "serious" art is KAWS, former tag artist. In the video below are some good views of an artist's studio and what having a gallery show is like.
Grafitti is a world-wide phenomenon. I particularly like some of the Brazilian artists, such as Os Gêmeos. Here's a review of Os Gêmeos from the New York Times and a pic from the review:
Please take time to look at the slide show of Os Gêmeos' work.
One of my all-time favorite videos shows a group of Japanese artists working on a wall (uhm, large surface?) for a week:
-- Marge
Let's start with Art Crimes - The Writing on the Wall, a site devoted to grafitti. Their subtitle pretty much says it all. However, many tag (another word for grafitti) artists that start with writing on the wall and move on to successful careers in art.
An example of an extremely successful move to "serious" art is KAWS, former tag artist. In the video below are some good views of an artist's studio and what having a gallery show is like.
Grafitti is a world-wide phenomenon. I particularly like some of the Brazilian artists, such as Os Gêmeos. Here's a review of Os Gêmeos from the New York Times and a pic from the review:
Please take time to look at the slide show of Os Gêmeos' work.
One of my all-time favorite videos shows a group of Japanese artists working on a wall (uhm, large surface?) for a week:
-- Marge
No comments:
Post a Comment