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Lecture Notes - Graffiti and Street Art

History
Drawings and paintings on cave wall from Paleolithic period.
Scratched with animal bones and natural pigments.
Ancient Roman Graffiti from Pompeii.

Can have a political message.
Engraving of Killroy/Chad during WWII was popular around the country with a message 'wot no...' sugar, flour etc. It became a national joke, was humorous where it is placed.

Paris May '68
Civil unrest inspiring cultural and creative material 
'We Are The Power'

1970s New York
Evolves around the Hip Hop culture
Announcing a presence and saying we will not be ignored
Making the language of streets visible
Spray can graffiti

Hip Hop graffiti was political, had a message to say
Whereas disco culture at the same time was superficial

John Naar, Photographer, 1973
'Becoming a Graffiti Photographer'
'were a cry for change from the ghetto to clean up the filthy streets'

Jean-Michel Basquiet (1960-88)
New-expressionism - Graffiti in paintings

Samo/Same-oh - pseudonym of same old shit
Became popular throughout Manhattan
Death of samo documented on streets 1979

Warhol and Basquiet collaborated
General Electric with Waiter, 1984
One of Americas largest corporations
Basquiet died of a herion overdose 18 months after Warhol

Keith Haring, Radiant Baby
In 1981 he sketched his first chalk drawing on black paper, metal, and other materials.
He did a lot of subway art. Sexuality was a recurring theme in his work, being a gay artist himself.

'PopShop' was his shop selling t shirts, toys, posters etc, and was closed in 2005.
He was criticised for being too commercial, but he wanted it to be affordable, everyday work rather than expensive gallery pieces.

John Feckner, Broken Promises, 1980
Jenny Holzer, Times Square Show, 1980
Her work mimics overload of usual information on street, and uses LCD screen rather than stencil like Feckner.

Video Game Culture
Comment on lack of technology available in Eastern Block.
Feeliz 1984 - on Berlin Wall.

Tats Cru, 1997, for Coca Cola
Bomb The World (PS2) 2004, a game where you can spray paint towns

Invader
French Artist, born 1969
First mosaic in mid 1990s Paris
Tiles are pixel like
They are permanent as weatherproof, and difficult to remove
Conceptual element: points on a map from a space invader
'Attack on Montpellier'
Almost a form of real game play, as he sets you on a mission to look for all his artworks

Re-emergence of street art now
Sherpherd Fairey, 2008, Obama campaign
Banksy, Kate Moss, in style of Warhol

Parisian photographer JR, Favela Morro Da Provienda - Rio 2008

Blu (Italy) and Os Gemeos (Brazil) Lisbon 2010. Created an enlarged man drinking from the World, wearing a crown with lots of oil companies. It was a social comment

Blu is known for his animated graffiti
Corsa Ad 2011

123 Klan
Founded as a graffiti crew in 1989 by Scien and Klor, turned their hands to illustration while maintaining graffiti style.

Paul Curtis (Moose)
Reverse Graffiti
Uses stencils to water blast of dirt to make image

Free Art Friday
Create free art, place it somewhere public, and attach a tag to it saying 'take me home and enjoy' 
Some make game out of it and leave clues on Twitter

Sam 3 (Spain) Murcia 2010
Only uses black paint

Graffiti is a way of escaping gender. Doesn't matter if you are male of female. 
Diva is a female artist
Miss Van, Fafi and Swoon paint women to feminise the streets
Ganz Nicholas, Graffiti Woman

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