EXAM 2 STREET ART

Dan Witz

famous for tiny life-size hummingbirds

-caged up humans and animals

-collab with PETA

Shepard Fairey

Graffiti artist/ OBEY and OBAMA HOPE

-environment and equality

Stik

stick figures

-2 colors, simple lines

-"Big Mother"

Blu

-controversial paintings

-political and environment

El Seed

Arabic Calligraphy

-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

Geurilla Girls

feminist activist artists, formed middle 80's and is still active today, advocates for greater inclusion by the art world of art by women and people of color

Gran Fury

AIDS crisis, pink triangle

David Avalos

Ron English

"Propaganda" artist fighting fire with fire

Billboard Liberation Front

Subverts commercial billboards with anti corporate messages ("subvertising")

Robbie Conal

wheat paste artist using grotesque portraits to reflect ugliness of pop culture and scandals

Brandalism

A movement in which artists and activists use public advertising spaces to place fake ads mocking companies for bad behavior.

Diego Rivera

-optimistic and highlights the good

David Alfonso Siquieros

most flamboyant and dramatic

The Zoo Project

-The martyrs series: Life size figures

representing some of the people killed in the

Tunisian revolution.

Bahia Shehab

"No and a thousand times no"

Keizer

No More Lies

-Stencils of whimsical animals or politically

charged imagery

-Istanbul

Leo Lunatic

Semi OK

-Cartoon characters that interact with their

surroundings

-Purpose is really about play and whimsy

Canavar

themes around elusive creature with multiple eyes

Ashekman

3 Lebanese legends:

- Fairouz, Sabah, and Wadih Al Safi

-Promote culture and the arts

-Often cover up decades old (as well as

recent) political slogans to change to

geopolitics of emotion

Yazan Halwani

-Similar to ASHEKMAN work is meant to

promote Lebanese culture, portraits of poets,

artists and singers

-Work always contains script with portrait,

ASHEKMAN is usually just the portrait

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.

Jose Orozco Clemente

darker and represent oppression

Judy Baca

an American artist, largest mural in the US

-the great wall of LA

East Los Streetscapers

-Chicano identity within the context of war,

cultural imperialism, urbanization, economic

exploitation

Charles Alston

Famed muralist that Jacob Lawrence took lessons from while he was a youth in Harlem at the Utopia Children House and Harlem Art Workshop. At this time he also studied with sculptor Augusta Savage. Most of his studies were at 135th branch of the New York Public Library(Now the Schoenberg Center for Research in Black Studies), which is now the site of most of Laurence's murals.

Elizabeth Cattlet

Charles White

- Social realist artist

- Worked primarily in black & white or sepia & white drawings, paintings, and lithographs

- Executed drawings and paintings speak of and affirm the humanity and beauty of African American people and culture

Jenny and Ethel Magafan

ASCO

Chicano/a performance pioneers

-asco means disgust

INTI

-Chilean artist

-enormous murals of sacred imagery

STEEP

JADE

-depicts reality and peru

SANER

El Mac

-Chicano

-Puts his spray cans in dry ice to get contour lines

-His portraits are the faces of his friends, Mexican workers

-portrays regular people

D-FACE

-Signature mark is the wing

-Makes commentary on the heroic and is critical of American culture and politics-best known for his pop-inflected body of work that critiques the modern world, in particular, consumerism and the American Dream. His imagery delivers a viewer the moral dilemma, embrace or reject, laugh or deny.

Borondo

VHILS

Broken Fingaz

from israel

Nomad Clan

Mad C

Okuda

a Spanish painter and sculptor known for his

distinctive style of colorful geometric

patterns that portray animals, skulls,

religious iconography and human figures.

Seth Globepainter

HERAKUT

Os Gemeos

-Twin brothers from Brazil

-Figures are always yellow, they had shared dreams of yellow figures when they were children. That is how the yellow-faced characters became a leitmotif respectively their trademark.-The surreal murals, they became known for, are reflecting their strong belief that street art should beautify the urban environment and has its important social role.

Kobra

Paulo Ito

-Irreverent with sharp social criticism

-Painted on school doors, social media and its

ability to interface with street art caused this

image to go viral before the World Cup

Cranio

JR

P183

-His work addressed political issues, he

claimed not to consider himself a "political

artist".

-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.

Art Vandal

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

Eelco

-Dutch painter, muralist, and illustrator

-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

Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

Mural Arts Philadelphia has created nearly 4,000 artworks to transform public spaces. Artists from within Philadelphia and around the world create murals alongside members of the community.

Zabou

-Combination of free hand painting and stencils

-Pinups and saints mixed with modern elements

-Commentary on expectations of women and how to subvert those expectations

-French

Jean Michel Basquiat

an artist born in NY, of a Haitian + Puerto Rican descended, who started as a graffiti artist

Keith Haring

an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.

Jenny Holzer

conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work

Shalak Attack

Characteristics of Fair Use

-transformative factor

-nature of copyright

-the amount taken

-the effect on potential market

Principles of Added Value to Neighborhoods

artwashing and gentrification