Have you ever met Peter the 1st?

Graffiti & Street art

Have you ever met Peter the 1^st?

Do you like the statue by Tzereteli? Do you go past him and say “Hi, Pete”?

What do you like more – this sculpture or graffiti on the walls?

Jean Debuffet

Street art has become recognized as a valid form of social expression

The word “graffiti” derives from the greek word graphein meaning – to write

Evolved into latin word graffito

In the west – any unsolicited marking on a private or public property that is usually consifered to be vandalism

The presentation is unconventional

Lack of aesthetic/artistic values (?)

Cave paintings, runes, inscriptions – the first graffities

The cave was a public place – their meeting place, Mayakovskaya!

3500BC Sakkara Egypt – “I am very impressed by Pharaoah Djosser’s pyramid”

Aboriginal wall painting – Australia

Pampeii (excavated 1600-1900) – some of the best preserved examples of early graffiti

Is graffiti a consequence of advertising?

New York – agencies sell Lifestyles and identities, starting from the 1970s

"One of the assumptions underlying their strategic work is that advertisements should work on each reader's need for an identity, on the individual's need to expose himself/herself to lifestyles and values which confirm the validity of his/her own lifestyle and values, thereby making sense of the world and his/her place in it. What we are faced with here is a signification process whereby a certain commodity is made the expression of a certain content (the lifestyle and values)." (Vestergaard and Schroder, 1985: 73). -

As advertising and graffiti rely on the amount of coverage or penetration, coupled of course with the quality of the delivery, it is easy to see how these two entities are so much alike. "As commercial logos lose their shine and cities start to look the same, graffiti street signs and logos become a symbol of individuality, fulfilling man's basic urge to leave a trace on the world" (Manco, 2004: 43).

If a tag or a logo can be reproduced enough times and it becomes recognizable by a large section of the community then it becomes part of the social and natural landscape and it is referenced, it becomes instantly embedded into the mind. Obey Giant (see figure 3) for instance is an interesting case. Artist Shepard Fairey came up with the original idea of turning Andre, a Russian wrestler into Andre the Giant and adding the Obey caption, which is meant to play with people's perception of reality. Originally done as a stencil in his neighbourhood, it was a jibe at a local group of skateboarders from his area, and the caption read: 'Andre has a posse".

SOURCE - http://www.graffiti.org/faq/kataras/kataras.html

Aerosol art

· 1970 tagging first seen in NY

· Visually dominated urvan society

· Availiability of spray cans

· TAKI 183, cool disco can

· Cleaning of “tags” in NY $300 000

Subway art

· Subway as a moving canvas

· Graffiti writers spread their identities and reputations

· Simple tags of the early 70s became more advances in terms of style, colour and proportion

Dondi – Brooklym East NYC

Fab 5 Freddy 1 – Soup Train 1981

Momo - After requesting a meetup, MOMO told my friend that he accomplished this task by fixing 5 gallon paint buckets to the back of his bike, poking a hole in the bottom of the containers, and riding though the West Village, SoHo, Greenwich Village, East Village, and Alphabet City. Momo made the tag in 2006. Some parts of the line have been covered up by roadwork and redone sidewalks but most of the line is still visible.

Francis Alÿs is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. http://video.mit.edu/watch/sometimes-doing-something-poetic-can-become-political-and-sometimes-doing-something-political-can-be-3918/

Extreme graffiti – dangerous places

How the hell did he do it? The higher the danger level, the higher the respect

So, is graffiti vandalism?

· Anti-social/rebellious

· Territorial/ownership

· Often over-written

· Associated with urban youth culture

8 years sentence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBoQuwJqxA

From street to gallery

- they frame their graffitis

- they wear suits

Is it still street art?

Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-88)

Major part of 1980s NY art scene

He befriended this guy called Andy Warhol

Ethnographic imagery

Recognized artistically

Keith Haring (1958 - 90)

From chalk drawing on subway to galleries

Friends with Warhol

Celebration of life

Sexuality

AIDS activist

Social issues

As an artist, Keith Haring delighted in the idea that his work should be available to everybody – that it should appeal not only to rich collectors who wanted to admire canvases on walls but also to the average person in the street who simply wanted to buy a keyring, T-shirt or baseball-cap. (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/27/keith-haring-pop-shop-tate)

Blek Le rat

- active in the 80s in Paris

- one of the first to use stencils

- “whatever I wanted to do, Blek Le Rat did It before me” - Banksy

Banksy

I never apologise

I ‘m sorry but that’s just the way I am

His first work – he litterally

Robin Banks – his real name, attempts to keep identity secret to avoid arrest, artwork seen in London and surroundings

Accused of increasing property prices in Hackney

He is gently subversive

Puns&ironies

Relatively non-offensive

Anti-capitalism

Billboards are the true vandalism

MTV, Puma and record companies- collaboration

Graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Despite having to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually the most honest artform available. There is no elitism of hype, it exhibits on some of the best walls a town has to offer, and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

A wall has always been the best place to publish your work.

The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit

Israeli Security Wall graffiti

Berlin wall graffiti

Paris Hilton cds bombed by Banksy

Graffiti and Fine art

Banksy at the Metropolitan Museum

Banksy v.Bristol 2009 – retrospective (over 100 works and queues up to 6 hrs)

The modern street art show 2010

https://vimeo.com/993998

- MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

http://www.jr-art.net/videos

http://www.jr-art.net/videos/women-are-heroes-by-jr - the video we watched

Present occupant project – Leeds, UK

Martyn Hill

Art always looks at the niches of society

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