ARTP 160 Street Art Exam 1

Parrhesia

freedom of speech
Saying what's on their mind
Truth, risk, and consequence

Gentrification

Poor/working class neighborhood/area changed into wealthier and whiter

INVADER

Artist
Mosaic tiles often of 8-bit games
More recently pop culture icons

Banksy

Artist
Activist oriented
Dismaland
Unknown identity

carnivalesque

like or relating to merrymaking, revelry, or a festival
Destabilization or reversal of power structures
Ex: mocking authority

cynicism

In a philosophical sense; critique of conventional structures, questioning of established public behavior
Go against conventional structures
Point out faults, lapses, or outright corruption in social/public spaces

Satirical Parody

Turn a message against itself
Often ads or posters already up
Or playing off of those things

Detournement

Hijack, to change the tide
Taking public space for yourself
Exploring the public in novel ways/recreating an environment

stencil

a perforated template allowing ink or paint to pass through to print a design

Miss.Tic

Female figures with phrases/poems (in French) double antandras
Sensual, Stencils, Black line work, clean and economical, no shading
Rejecting norms of women in public, cynicism and carnivalesque

Jess aerosol

Artist
Red arrow on many pieces
Comic like appearance
Celebrities and icons

Blek le Rat

Early stencil user, 1980's
Play in public space
Eventually made paste ups because was less of a fine if you get caught
Intentional placement
Recreation of well known works, homeless people

paste up

Method of getting graffiti up, used wheat paste to put their art up
Was less of a fine if caught bc it is easy to remove

Chip Thomas

Artist
Doctor and artist, often did work of his patients
Responding to environmental impacts on his patients
Paste ups, and photographs
Large pieces
Sheep
Green room

Swoon

Woodcut reliefs
Lots of children and women
Work is temporary
From photos

JR

French
From photographs
Cynicism by calling out public tropes
LARGE
Faces, portraits, eyes
Location is key

Stickers

Based on graffiti, a simpler way to tag, like paste up they are less of a fine
Sticker bombing

Keith Harring

Ahead of his time, art is for everybody
Awareness and foundations (esp. aids)
Sterns were extension easy to share and trade
Kind and generoussh

Shepard Farely

OBEY
Andre the giant, skateboard culture, stickers were something you put on decks

Dan Witz

Outlier
Hummingbirds, very small and detailed
Social and political issues
Human rights

Jimmy C.

Australian
Outlier
Large portraits
Dot drip style

El Mac

Larger portraits
Own methodology
LA, Chicano and Chicanex
cans on DRY ICE give gradient

Citizen Kane

Artist outlier
3D, giant molds and casting

Placemaking

Community development to leverage outside private and non profit funding, to change/shape a neighborhoods physical and social character using art
Used to be a positive thing but now is supports gentrification, racism, and real estate speculation under "neighborhood revitalization"

Peacekeeping

Active care and maintenance of a place by people who live and work there

Dismaland

2015, 6 weeks long, somerset England
Artists involved in planning, execution, and activity
Use of arts and culture to bring the place back to life/popularity (place keeping)
All the money they collected (30mil) went into repairs and revival of the town
Catalyst for other improvement

Banksy Raft of the medusa

Around dismaland
Taking inspiration from historic pieces
Next to an immigration office (LOCATION)

Banksy poster girl from Les Miserables

Tears on her eye from tear gas
QR code will take you to a video of migrants being forced to flee camp with tear gas
How people are treating migrants
Cynicism by calling out authority

Philadelphia Graffiti Abatement

Graffiti covers Philly, more than 4,000 pieces
So they take these graffiti artists and redirect them to do more work (murals, portraits, etc) that has more impact on the community and a more positive impact, revitalization of the city

Amy Sherald

Did portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama
Photo of young girl in cool clothes
How portraiture can affect the individual and the community

Steve ESPO power

Love letters to city of Philly

Keir Johnston

Working with teens and community

Jane Golden

Graffiti art turn around (abatement) program founder?
Anti graffiti strategy

Private Space/Sphere

Individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by intervention from government or other institutions
Home and family
Old outlook of gender to the sphere, roles for men and women

Public Space/Sphere

Government, laws, and politics should be steered by the public, the only legitimate governments are those that listen to the people

Mexico City manifesto

Mexican flag portraying the drug problems/trafficking of Mexico

ESCIF

Tlatelolco massacre
Dog portrait

Eric ll cane

Student massacre
Animals to tell parables

Tepito

By children playground

Bastardilla

Her and Eric power couple of street art
He will do animal and she does people
Looks kind print-ish
Also massacre stuff

Wall of Respect

Mirrors for political change
Collective identity
Portraits and tribute to hero's

Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara)

Art and design high school
Romance novels
Pink and bright colors
Asserting her femininity
Mural adept

Future 2000

Known from precise lines and sci-fi aesthetic
Block buster king

Cey Adams

Drawing board co-founder
Def jams records
Traffic designer, did logo from the bestie boys

Dondi

Full length train cars
Was capable of wild style but used legible letters instead, wanted his name to be seen
His childhood and household religion

Zephyr

Organic style lettering
Name from skateboard company
Collared with dondi and many others a lot

Urban art

Encompassing term for all art originating in and from the streets

Street art

Similarly broad term with more emphasis on the artists interaction with the street as an environment, inspiration, and culture

Tagging

Quickly leaving a signature, of then a single line/color with a few more details

Painting over/slashing/dissing

Happens in hierarchy and can be very disrespectful

ROA

ANIMALS
Environmental issues
Carried animal encyclopedias around bc no phones

Mural bombing

Another form of slashing, where taggers piggy back on a large intricate piece to get more attention

Throwie

A simple throw up tag, often with block or bubble letters or cartoon characters
Usually two colors, fill color or gradient and outlines
Quick but with style

Blockbuster

LARGE and blocky
More negative space than a throwie
Filled solid or with patterns

Burner

A train car piece that occupies the space from the bottom of the window and down, sometimes more

Masterpiece

A great tag
3 conditions: detail, size, and difficulty of placement

Wildstyle

Complex, intricate locking letters, illegible to non writers

All City

Status reserved for artists/groups with prolific and high quality tags

Getting up

Originally tagging but now includes tagging any surface

Toy

Someone new to the scene who might bite another's writers style
New with an undeveloped style

Inside kings

Painting inside of train cars, owns the inside

Outside kings

Tags on train surfaces

Kings of style

Masters of a certain style/aesthetic

Placas

Roll call of gang members

Taki 183

First writer to get widespread press for tagging

Seen

King of line 6
UAC
Multilayered background
Tattoo culture

Skeme

All city
3 car pieces

Blade

King of graffiti

Lee Quinones

Whole car king
Mural almost
Stop the bomb
Journal entrees

Phase 2

Phasemogorical phantastic king

Daze

Monument king
Pioneer of street art

Saber

LA river king, big piece by the river
Size of a football field

Basquiat

Sketchy guy
Cartoon style

Faith 47

South Africa, animals and females
Stand for empowerment
Dripping paint

Connor Harrington

Male figures in classical clothing
Often fighting or boxing
Stories tall
Dripping paint

Alexis Diaz

Cross hatching
Think black line work
Pen and ink like
Often of animals metamorphosis/hybrid

chemi rosado seijo

Skate bowl
He wants you to use his art

BG 183

Founding member of TATs cru
Known for script

Rock steady crew (RTC)

Know from spreading break dancing world wide