ARTP 160 Street Art Exam 1

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

Parrhesia

freedom of speech

Saying what's on their mind

Truth, risk, and consequence

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 a now 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 graff

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