Street Art Final

Dan Witz

Artivism
Hummingbird work
Phone Booth
Animal Rights campaign

Shepard Fairey

This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his "Obey" campaign, an expression of guerrilla marketing and street theater

STIK

- He is known for painting large stick figures
- Tries to show homelessness

Blu

Epic scale murals ; bloated figures with big heads
Heavily on black and white paint
Brutal work about the environment
Talks about two things: fear and rage

Guerrilla Girls

- Anonymous feminist artists using facts and humor to expose bias and corruption
- Fight for having more women represented in the art world

Gran Fury

Bus advertisements
"Kissing doesn't kill"
Exploiting the power of art to end the AIDS crisis

David Avalos

1988 bus ads on the US treatment of immigrants

Ron English

- "Popaganda" artist fighting fire with fire in advertisement
- Pop art influences
- Created "Joe Chemo"

Billboard Liberation Front

- Practices culture jamming by changing key words on billboards to radically alter the message
- Paved the way in public parody of advertisements

Robbie Conal

- Wheat paste artist using grotesque portraits to reflect the inner ugliness of pop culture and political scandals
- Serial comic posters with politicians, business man, political figures

Brandalism

a collective group in the UK ; movement that practices culture jamming

Diego Rivera

- Charged with creating images that embody the revolution
- Exploring the avant garde movements of the time
- Very SMOOTH style, few wrinkles on clothes

David Alfonso Siqueiros

Suffering
Images popping out of the wall, canvas

The Zoo Project

political struggle
black and white lineart

El Seed

Calligraphy circle
Calligraffiti
Anamorphic art in Cairo

Bahia Shehab

Stencil graffiti
A thousand times no
Simple symbols and images

Keizer

graffiti during the Egyptian revolution

No More Lies

Istanbul graffiti group
Involves animals
Stencil drawings

Semi OK

Cartoon characters
Known for clever environments art pieces

Leo Lunatic

Gruff and tuff PANDA

Canavar

Restless creatures
Most elusive creatures
Almost terrifying work

Ashekman

- Paints three Lebanese legends : Fairuz, Sabah, and Wanhdih El Safi
- Uses calligraffiti

Yazan Halwani

- combines calligraphy and graffiti

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
- neon signs

Jose Orozco Clemente

Much more critical of the government
Chaotic looking
Non-linear themes
Triumph of death painting influenced his works

Judy Baca

Murals of people's and family's history
Community artist

East Los Streetscapers

-Chicano identity within the context of war,
cultural imperialism, urbanization, economic
exploitation
- colorful, almost soft

Charles Alston

painter from the Harlem Renaissance
blocky characters

Elizabeth Catlett

celebrates black women's contributions as field laborers, domestic workers, etc.

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

Jennye and Ethel Magafan

- youngest painters in the WPA
- many of their murals are in Nebraska

ASCO

- chicana/o performance pioneers
- Socio Economic problems surrounding the chicano community
- walking performances

INTI

Enormous murals and violet and gold
Scared imagery
Madonna like female figures
Very vibrant colors used

STEEP

Ecuadorian mural artist who creates colorful characters based on Amazonian tribal aesthetics

JADE

Miniature pieces
ANIMAL interactions with modern figures

SANER

Distinctive vision of the world
Known for his figures having MASKS

El Mac

Gradient contour lines
Wavy or ripple effect
Portrays regular people

D-FACE

Recalls the work of American pop artist roy lichtenstein
Comic book style art
POP ART
"No more heroes"

Borondo

Almost like a BLURRY effect style

VHILS

Carving, pressure washing, and sometimes even exploding bits of walls
Depicts everyday people
Themes of globalization

Broken Fingaz

Very versatile in their media, use a huge range
Pop art
Comic book covers

Nomad Clan

LGBT group
Mystical style with dark melancholy to it
UK tallest mural

Mad C

Colorful murals
Dynamic calligraphy and transparency

Okuda

Colorful geometric forms and shapes

Seth Globepainter

Sensitive to the cultural and social nuances of the local communities
Paints CHILDREN
NEVER HAVE FACES

HERAKUT

German street art duo
Child-like paintings, adolescence
Repetitive theme of animal and human imagery

Os Gemeos

Yellow figures

Kobra

Monumental scaled, brightly colored murals
Photorealistic portraits of iconic people
Divided into geometric shapes and kaleidoscope colors

Paulo Ito

Cranio

Makes work about uncontacted tribes in the Amazon
Paints indigenous people
Almost like block style people

JR

Uses photography as a language
"Inside Out" : works made from a collection of over 400,000 volunteers portraits

P183

"Russian Banksy"
Pushing against the shields of riot police

Art Vandal

- in the form of paste ups
- criticizes government spending and corruption
- may take form of piggy banks in the colors of Olympic rings or the 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

- established in 1984 as part of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network
- Jane Golden was hired to reach out to graffiti writers and redirect their energies to public art projects

Zabou

known for her black and white portraits on colorful backgrounds

Jean Michel Basquiat

his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text

Keith Haring

A lot of his works included lines, as he saw it as the purest and most positive expression of human existence

Jenny Holzer

signage with a happy medium between ESPO's optimism and wool's cynicism
Uses LED signs, projections, and theatre marquees

Shalak Attack

Transformative factor
Nature of the copyright
The amount taken
The effect on the potential market

characteristics of fair use

Fair Use

The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting, criticizing or commenting on something, and comedy/parody).
copy of copyrighted material

art washing

a process that uses artistic practices unwittingly or not in the service of private capital in which art is intentionally employed as a tool designed to make a place

Principles of Added Value to Neighborhoods

- gentrification: process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in...they improve housing and attract new business, but in a way that increases prices and displaces the previous inhabitant
- Creative placemakers need to be careful, art that attracts people can be seen as a chance at profit for developers... they might start aggressive gentrification, driving up prices up and people out, even the artists who sought out to improve the space--- if placemaking stays in touch with and prioritizes community over attracting profit, that's much less likely to happen