Street Art Final

Diego Rivera

a) Rivera's mural inspired FDR'S WPA public arts project, started in 1935 (to 1943)
b) •"Integrate the fine with the practical arts, more especially, the arts in general with the daily life of the community."
c) Did a tour of Europe's Christian murals before returning to Mexico to commence working on these government commissioned murals
d) Similar to the narrative style of Giotto
e) Canonical Marxism- the workers are heroes, the idea of communism,socialism leading people out of their oppression

Jose Clemente Orozco

a) He learned to paint at a young age but had to have his left hand and wrist amputated at the age of 21. Didn't stop him from painting
b) Is proud of his mestizaje heritage
c) The murals depict Mexico's struggle for independence and the suffering of the people
d) Unlike Rivera, Orozco had a much darker view of the Mexican Revolution. Rivera was optimistic, touting the glory of the revolution. Orozco was less comfortable with the bloody toll the war was taking.

David Alfaro Siqueiros

a) Often the most violent imagery of the three. Was exiled from Mexico, visa not renewed in the United States (largely due to political views)
b) Fights in both Mexican Revolution and Spanish Civil war
c) Captures political tragedy. A million Mexicans will be killed or die of starvation or disease. Millions more will be displaced
d) He had both great compassion for people but also held the opinion that people were terrible

Judy Baca

a) The Great Wall of Los Angeles
b) Engaged rival gang members on working on the mural
c) about investing in the community in ways that had not been done before. Baca took the lead on the project by interviewing people about their lives, family histories, ancestry, and stories they remembered hearing from their older relatives, as well as consulting history experts. From this, she was able to create the design for the mural.
d) Topics included Zoot Suit Riots, Internment of Japanese during WWII, and Freedom Bus rides

East Los Streetscapers

a) Chicano identity within the context of war, cultural imperialism, urbanization, economic exploitation,.

Ishknits

a) Hemmons' core mission revolves around womanhood and art. Crochet uses a feminine medium to create a catalyst that sparks conversations regarding women and empowerment. Through it all, she hopes to make an artistic impression on as many people as possible and allow access to impactful art, even to those who feel excluded from the fine art world.

Espo

a) contemporary artist and muralist currently living and working in New York City. He is also known by the name ESPO ("Exterior Surface Painting Outreach")
b) Powers produced a series of murals in Philadelphia about the complexities of personal relationships, titled A Love Letter for You (2009). He painted 50 murals along the elevated train in West Philadelphia.

Shawn Dunwoody

a) Works with youth to transform areas of blight and neglect, walls and lives, with inspirational quotes woven into the art to ensure neighborly investment and offer hope, security and joy
b) "Through the eyes of these young artists, we see how both poverty and art are universal experiences regardless of the neighborhood you call home or the language that is on your tongue. Poverty builds walls that shut kids in - art has the power to tear down walls that confine us."

Gran Fury

a) Action, not art, was the aim of the collective. Producing posters and agitprop in alliance with ACT UP to accompany the larger group's demonstration, Adam Rolston and Douglas Crimp articulate how Gran Fury served as ACT UP's "unofficial propaganda ministry and guerrilla graphic designers."

Miss Cross Stitch

a) Selects places where many people could see it, but it also a place where I can work without being disturbed by the police.
b) it should be a nice place, so people [enjoy sitting] there afterwards.
i) In the beginning she used self-dyed cotton rope, now uses polypropylene rope because it's much more resistant against water and sun.

NeSpoon

a) Polish artist NeSpoon has a long and ongoing project called "Public Jewelry" where she creates both large and small scale pieces in public that are meant to beautify unadorned public spaces. She uses paint, crochet and ceramic material to create these pieces, working both alone or with folk artists.

Steep

a) Images of the Amazon jungle where humans, exotic birds and plants live in harmony

Jade

a) Jade Rivera aka JADE is Peruvian street artist whose work, from miniature pieces to large murals, is striking through the sincere way the artist depicts the realities surrounding him, the problems people face in Peru and the deep connection that they have with their own culture.
b) To date, Rivera insists on using painting as a reflection of what his perception absorbs daily and is reunited with its Andean roots for the development of its graphic style.

Elizabeth Catlett

a) Elizabeth Catlett and Charles White both went to Mexico, two of several African American artists to study under the largesse and hospitality of David Alfaro Siquieros, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Catlett has been a political progressive committed to improving the lives of African-American and Mexican women, and she has often used her art explicitly to advance their cause.

Ethel Magafan

a) Ethel and Jenny Magafan were twin sisters. Their father moved the family from Chicago to Colorado for health reasons. They were the youngest painters in the WPA. Many of their murals, such as Threshing, (pictured here) are in Nebraska
b) WPA works had to depict "The American Scene" these works and murals had a distinctly different style than Magafan's later work which consisted of planar, colorful mountain ranges

Millard Sheets

a) Was a WPA painter, part of the California Scene painters, professor and administrator
b) Began doing intricate, large, glass mosaic murals, often similar in theme to the WPA paintings although they were completed later

Ai Wei Wei

a) Artist and activist
b) Challenges practices of Chinese government
c) Advocates democracy and free speech
d) Sculpture, installation, ceramics, photography, and video

No More Lies

a) Stencils of whimsical animals or politically charged imagery
b) Istanbul

Leo Lunatik

a) His brand is a cartoon panda bear painted all over the city (similar to Bear Champ)
b) Despite the current political situation in the region and geopolitical significance artists like Leo Lunatik prefer to create images that promote peace, are playful and denounce war using humor and deflection
c) The government is more likely to support street artists as long as they are not being overtly political

Canavar

a) The name means "Monster"
b) Although not overtly political they are grim and nightmarish. The imagery implies a level of discomfort with circumstances surrounding Turkey, mass amounts of Syrian refugees escaping the war, protests violently clashing with the police (such as Gezi park) a string of Al Qaeda attacks on Istanbul and neighboring Turkish cities contribute to the unease these murals evoke.

El Seed

a) Created Calligraffiti
b) Tunisian artist combines poetry, messages of peace, hope and beauty to communicate- even if you can't read them, the aesthetics begin to change tropes about Arabic culture
c) His goal is to create tolerance and produce dialogue through his art and surrounding communities.

The Zoo Project

The martyrs series
a) Life size figures representing some of the people killed in the Tunisian revolution.
b) Comment on income inequality, underemployment/no opportunities for young people and lack of political freedom/oppressive government (martyrs)
c) Martyrs pays tribute to the 236 people killed during the Tunisian revolution

Aya Tarek

a) Egypt
b) Once people started to protest issues such as income disparity, oppressive governments, etc female graffiti artists were not dissuaded.
c) Aya Tarek created murals depicting martyrs/victims of government oppression

Keizer

a) Keizer often uses stencils, which have a harder edge and because of their history in urban spaces carry with them a sense of authority
b) She expands the platform to include injustices and abuses perpetrated upon women, often creating portraits of women exercising their agency under oppressive circumstances, such as Samira Ibraham, who was stripped and examined by military police. (She pursued legal action against the police)

Gamze Yalcin

a) Creates images about women and nature and the gentle power of women
b) Combines her background in both illustration and interior architecture
c) In her street art

Semi OK

a) Cartoon characters that interact with their surroundings
b) Purpose is really about play and whimsy

ASHEKMAN

3 Lebanese legends
(a) Fairouz, Sabah, and Wadih Al Safi
(b) Promote culture and the arts
(c) Often cover up decades old (as well as recent) political slogans to change to geopolitics of emotion

Yazan Halwani

a) Similar to ASHEKMAN work is meant to promote Lebanese culture, portraits of poets, artists and singers
b) Work always contains script with portrait, ASHEKMAN is usually just the portrait

Ron English

a) Joe Camel series criticizing Camel for marketing to teens
b) Explores subverting brand imagery and advertising
c) English uses culture jamming technique to inspire people to question consumer capitalism. English does this by using his over emphasized, grotesque, and to some, offensive, characters to intrigue the consumer, luring them in to reveal the truth behind the product.

Brandalism

a) Brandalism is an international group of artists

b) One of their largest events was to address the greenwashing of the Paris Climate talks in 2015. The event was sponsored by companies that produced and consumed fossil fuels. World leaders were also criticized for their sponsorship by similar companies

c) Used detournement-replacing advertisements with their subvertisements to call attention to contradictory information

d) Asks the viewer to question the visual language that advertising uses and that consumers assume are "safe"

EELCO

a) Dutch painter, muralist, and illustrator
b) his mostly hand-drawn work is standing out with its strong use of color, motifs, outlines and illustrative elements in a surrealistic pop art style

Paulo Ito

a) Irreverent with sharp social criticism
b) Painted on school doors, social media and its ability to interface with street art caused this image to go viral before the World Cup
c) Demonstrative of the population that was sharply critical of extravagant government spending on the World Cup despite crumbling national infrastructures in education and heath care

P183

a) His work addressed political issues, he claimed not to consider himself a "political artist".
i) One of his last works addresses the issue of the 2011 Russian election, the results of which many in Moscow and around Russia have disputed.
b) Died under mysterious circumstances.
c) Work often engaged viewer in a physical and metaphorical action

Art Vandal

a) Work is often in the form of paste ups and criticizes government spending and corruption. This may take the form of piggy banks in the colors of the Olympic rings or in this instance, a Sochi Olympic glove

SET

a) Authorities enter street art scene to promote their own pro-Kremlin agenda
b) Some artists called hypocrites for "train bombing" at night and working for the government during the day.

Farid Rueda

a) Mexico
b) Uses bright, kaleidoscopic palette and animal imagery that can be read as totemic, makes reference to heritage and environment, nature and the urban
c) Figures, animals and narrative have long history dating to Mesoamerican monumental buildings

Dmitry Chalov

a) Commissioned to create murals of soccer players during the World Cup

Martin Ron

a) Martin Ron works combine hyperrealism with an element of fantasy segments or dream like imagery

SAMO

a) Painter Jean Michel Basquiat
b) Graffiti artist turned painter
c) Visual collage
(a) Urban origins
(b) African-Caribbean heritage
d) Socially and politically charged
(a) Intrinsic dichotomies
(b) Poetic

Fanakapan

a) Fanakapan is a prolific London-based street artist known for creating hyper realistic visuals of real life objects. His free hand, spray painting skills and the unmatched combination of shadow and reflective highlights

Mi Casa No Es Su Casa

a) Activist art group Mi Casa No Es Su Casa, based out of Mayday Space in Bushwick teamed up with NYC Light Brigade to conduct a project called Illumination Against Gentrification. The group constructs neon signs, which say things like "Gentrification is the New Colonialism", "Not For Sale", "No Me Desplaces", "Decolonize the Hood", "3 Generation Household", and "No Eviction Zone".

Ricky Lee Gordon

a) Ricky Lee Gordon is a self taught artist from South Africa. He is inspired by his experiences in meditation and Buddhist dharma (law of nature) and explore the interconnectedness, focusing on bfringing to light social issues and universal truths. His murals have a connection to the people and places in which he is painting

Jonathan Queen

a) Cincinnati based artist, hyper real style makes commentary on the products of Cincinnati history, such as the history of the toy industry

Okuda

a) kuda San Miguel, Óscar San Miguel Erice is a Spanish painter and sculptor known for his distinctive style of colorful geometric patterns that portray animals, skulls, religious iconography and human figures.

Nychos

a) Nychos is an illustrator, urban artist and graffiti artist from Austria. He is known for his characteristic dissection, cross-section, x-ray and translucent styles, often portraying animals and characters drawn from pop culture

Dulk

a) His naturalistic worlds show us a tragi-comic and surrealistic themed landscape full of details, sometimes real sometimes fiction but always inviting us to dive on them. His compositions recreate biological environments involved in antagonistic concept