Street Art

[noart]

Сообщение от gans

For me, that's it - the actual art.

Street art-fine art, the distinctive feature of which is a distinct urban style. The main part of street art is graffiti (otherwise spray-painting), but we can not assume that the street art it is the graffiti. K Street-art also includes posters (non-profit), stencils, various sculptural installations, etc.


The art of protest - we do not need the canvas and do not need the gallery. Artists hooligans, which is considered aerobatics - it is painted in the iconic locations. Now paint everywhere and all - but it does not become irrelevant.
Many Street artists have become a source of inspiration in traditional painting

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[gans]

[noart]

Сообщение от Hans

By Ian Yangs
BBC News Online Entertainment staff


Guerrilla artist Banksy has covertly reinforced 20-foot (6 m) satirical statue protesting against the British legal system in the central square of London.
Banksy, best known for his work his way into the Tate, has depicted the figure of justice as a prostitute in leather boots and belt.
Several hundred fans gathered at Klerkenuell Green on Wednesday to see a bronze statue to be open.
It was introduced in the 0200 BST (0100 GMT) on Wednesday without permission.
Banksy, who shrouds his work in secret, gained a reputation as subversive stunts that outfox authorities.
He said that the statue cost £ 22,000 to build, consists of solid bronze and weighs three and a half tons (3500 kg).
It shows the figure of justice - whose statue overlooks the Old Bailey in London - with U.S. dollar bills stuffed in her garter and a plaque on the pedestal with the words: "Trust no one.

The statue was hardened at Klerkenuell Green, London
"This is a brand new monument in London," Banksy wrote in a statement read out by rapper MC Dynamite.
"This is a monument to the bandits, thieves, hooligans, that for the liars, to corrupt, arrogant and stupid".
He said the stunt was timed to mark the first anniversary of the death of Kevin Callan, a truck driver, who was the victim of a miscarriage of justice when he was convicted in 1991 for killing four-year-old child. His conviction was overturned in 1995.
"This is the most honest depiction of British justice currently on display in the capital," said Banks. "I hope he stays there forever.
"We learn that the people we hope, with our freedom, can not be trusted."
Arrest
Place the green near the ancient City of London, was chosen because the site last arrest in Banksy.
In April, Banksy exhibited a dead rat wearing sunglasses in the Natural History Museum for a few hours the museum staff noticed.
Six months ago, he surreptitiously hung pictures in the gallery Tate Britain, and is also known for creating the sleeve for Blur Think Tank album.
In 2003, the exhibition, in which he spray-painted graffiti on cows, sheep and pigs, was closed after the animals became "hot and distressed".
He painted like a queen chimpanzee during her Golden Jubilee and sprayed "Mind of shit" on the steps of Tate Britain before the Turner Prize ceremony.
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Should Banksy be nominated for the Turner prize?
A perverse whim had me toying with the idea of nominating Banksy for the Turner prize, but to celebrate street art is to promote ignorance and aggression

Sick artistic excitement ... banana wall near Old Street, London by Banksy Photograph: Sarah Lee
It is done ... after 12 months of rumination I've just sent off my nominations for the 2009 Turner prize. The jury meets next week to finalise the shortlist which will be announced later in April.
One of the luxuries of being on this particular jury is that you get to nominate exactly who you want to. The artists must either be British or live and work in Britain; must have had or participated in an exhibition in the past year; and must be under 50 years old. There is no tedious process of galleries officially putting artists forward for consideration, in fact no formal nominations procedure other than the choices of the four jurors and the chairperson of the jury, who is Stephen Deuchar, director of Tate Britain.
This system makes it, in some ways, the very opposite of what critics of the Turner prize think it is. You believe the Turner is too incestuous, too intertwined with art dealers and the "art world"? Well, if so the corruption must emanate in some invisible ether because there is no direct way in which galleries or anyone else can influence the Turner prize. Nor has anyone tried to persuade me of anything. I have missed the opportunity to prove my integrity because no one even bothered to corrupt me.
Which means, as they say in Baltimore, that it's on us: it's up to the jury to come up with a decent shortlist. The Turner prize is genuinely unique and formidable. It is better than the Booker because it's purer in the way it works - it is less beholden to exterior forces, and it is more emotional. I expect the meeting next week to be as contentious as all our advance conversations have been - and they have stung.
I'm not telling you my nominations, obviously. But perhaps I'll mention an artist I decided not to put forward. A perverse devil in me flirted with Banksy. This really was perverse because I've denounced this artist many times. I simply felt that the Turner was a chance to reconsider all my prejudices, to re-examine ideas that might have become too rigid. Perhaps putting Banksy forward for the Turner might give the public a chance to actually engage with his art instead of just hearing about it? Another motive was less pure: I'd like this year's Turner to make a big impact and Banksy's name might pull in punters.

Yet the second consideration no longer applies. One of those magical media transmutations has taken place. Banksy is no longer hot. Only six months ago it was the bane of a critic's life to be asked to comment on Banksy every couple of days. Now it's hard to persuade editors to let me mention him. You live by the media, you die by the media.
Anyway, I believe in education. The reason I don't like street art is that it's not aesthetic, it's social. To celebrate it is to celebrate ignorance, aggression, all the things our society excels at. For middle class people to find artistic excitement in something that scares old people on estates is a bit sick.
It's because I believe in education that I believe in the Turner prize. The great thing about the Turner is that it is awarded by a museum. Tate Britain is a place where you can see British art going back through Turner and Hogarth to the time of the Tudors. Only the dimmest visitor to the Turner exhibition later this year will fail to at least notice that this museum also has old paintings. Some will stay for the Stubbs.
As a nation we need to educate ourselves. We've spent too long sitting around getting stupid. When all is said and done the Turner prize is a beacon of intelligence. It aspires to select the best and most ambitious examples of British art at the present moment and at the same time to enhance the authority of that greatest and most enlightened of institutions, the museum. It doesn't need Banksy.

[SergeiSK]

New York artist Ellis Gallagher creates no graffiti on the walls, but directly on the sidewalks, drawing on the shadows cast by various objects, such as lights, fences, trees. Unusual graffiti. Watch the best in the evening.
Taken from here: http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009/11...treet-art.html

[SergeiSK]

Streets of Rio de Janeiro

[Кирилл Сызранский]

In Gelman now read and saw:

fashionable poetess EMELIN: "On a gray day architecture fashion! It is less noticeable to the people of dirt! »

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[SergeiSK]

Another piece of street art from Brazil. Artists Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente and their project "The 6emeia project".
http://www.6emeia.com/fotos.php

[Glasha]

Сообщение от SergeiSK

drawing on the shadows cast by various objects, such as lights, fences, trees. Unusual graffiti

again not to recall the boy about the free travel to Samara

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and another artist (put all the same to those mentioned above ) - very similar:

Сообщение от gans

Schwarz Christophe Arhirre - French street artist, better known as Zevs. One of the first Parisian graffiti artists in the early nineties, he was also active teggerom. Alias "Zevs" - is the name of a commuter train ("Zeus"), who once almost moved him to the subway. Together with André and Space Invader Zevs been one of the first activists French street art.

In the late 90's Zevs became known, casting shadows of objects on the streets of the city and podrisovyvaya blood stains eyes models depicted on billboards. His work has provoked serious public response ....

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[SergeiSK]

An interesting article in the "Results":
Yesterday artists, painted walls, considered urban vandals. Today, their works have been exhibited in reputable galleries and auctioned off
In the middle of a wrecked building plant stands a man in orange overalls and a mask from the face of stretched leopard tights. He looks thoughtfully at the image of the huge Soviet flags, spread-eagled on the wall opposite, a little later adopted a methodical bottling of the hammer and sickle yellow dye, while that will not drain to the floor, but he did not hear the applause. With this operation, the French street artist ZEVS toured the world last ten years: dissolve in the colors of the logo of Nike and McDonald's, makes to bleed corporate brand Coca-Cola and smiling faces with advertising banners IBM, and fashion brands such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton will expire in black ink.
... At the Biennale of Young Art "Stop! Who goes there? "Project" Streets Without Borders "brought the stars of the European street art. In the center «ARTPLAY on Yauza accommodated fairly motley company - ADEK, YZ, S215, L'ATLAS, Jana und Js, the same ZEVS. This is not underground name, although the people behind them in their time walking under the article: from the official point of view of graffiti is still considered vandalism, but because it is in Paris, can "close" for five years. Moscow connoisseurs of prohibited "beauty" had to wait for nothing at all - for the first time graffitist admitted in a highly Society recently. In 2001, they "meet" for the American pavilion at the Venice Biennale. And in 2006, in the Brooklyn Museum "stenkovaya" Painting has been declared a new form of art.

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«Twenty years ago, - says ZEVS, - I left the tags on the way to school (tag - the nickname man balloon inscribed with paint in his characteristic style. -" Results "). Then he began to descend into the subway, drawings of all walls and tunnels in his area, in eastern Paris. Actually, my nickname - it pereinachennoe name trains, for which I almost got one in the subway. One rode past his old tag, I wondered: Why all this was done? What I told people to scrawl their own? Instead of youthful vandalism, I moved on to more meaningful forms.
What the French say, called Street-art - it is a mixture of street graffiti culture and traditional art school. Born at the turn of the century a strange symbiosis between long-established, initially opposed to each other ways of expression. Thanks to the efforts ZEVS and his numerous colleagues graffiti movement that originated in the U.S. as a mark of "their" territory by rival street gangs in the eyes mutates into a recognized contemporary art. Because ADEK, impressive volumes of Arabic, drawing pictures of their fluorescent dyes so that, depending on time of day, the viewer sees different characteristics, says it all: "graffitist - first of all an anarchist, who denies any laws and regulations, enfant terrible, laughing in the face of the government. Though, I absolutely understand why graffiti in general is called vandalism. Say, a million of advertising billboards, climbing everywhere, is not it downright insult to the eye? But I do not graffitist. Street-artist ".
It already is not a primitive "landmark": it is assumed that each leaf has its own message, decrypt that - a distinct intellectual pleasure. The works of the famous, but nobody had seen Banksy going wild pacifist fervor, ZEVS - one of the brightest of his generation conceptualists, S215 has breathed new life into an established canon of self-portrait. The true face of C215 - this is his tag, signature. And it is the world's more than recognizable: in Moscow, he came and painted a private villa in Morocco. In short, the apt expression of our designer agon noga, if the graffiti have to say "I am 'in the Street" Art can say "I think so." And it is not scribble, and high art. With budgets estimeytami and again criminality. Suffice it to recall how a couple of British intruders umyknula rather big piece of the wall with the work of the legendary Banksy, hoping to help out for her no less than half a million pounds sterling. Here only the artist himself from his authorship disown.
Slumdog Millionaire
Sales of the monumental graffiti happen, however, much less than the usual auction. In order to put their creativity into commercial track, artists are forced to endure graffiti on canvas. Or from the original painting is a limited number of reprints. "The mechanism is simple enough, - says Simon Faibisovich, one of the most expensive in the current repertoire of Russian artists. - If the artist wants to offer as a commodity, he must do what they can sell. " Record holder among street artists today, Banksy is the same: in 2008 at a charity auction at Sotheby's one of his works have sold for 1.9 million dollars. And he auction house, sometimes even called him "the fastest growing artist of all time.
Actually I must say that the curators have found themselves Street Art. Usually after a imagine it? The artist paints a picture and offers her gallerist. From Street-art goes contrary: Already famous on the street - without any financial investment - the artists seem to have to open the doors of galleries foot. That's just one twist: in this case to preserve the notorious street freedom? Why deal with the industry - this is life according to certain laws. "Of course, you can deal with Street-art only on the street, but then the glory goes to the city, but not for thee, - complained of" Itogi »C215. - It is ridiculous that in the end only wants the public - that the artist was just free, but towards the viewer, he meets a number of obstacles, attending to such compromises with his conscience, that when he reached the people, he has established himself not feels. Gallery owners come to you in the hope to make you money, and you agree, because who knows what will happen to you tomorrow. "
And indeed, on the one hand, street art can be a new revolution in art: revealing, say, that gentlemen like the famous sculptor Antony Gormley, too, began to play with the city. But on the other hand, street art can be merciless grind Art Market. Herein lies a contradiction - you would like to remain anonymous so as not seized power, but going forward galleries for success.
One way or another, but only forty years after its inception in the bowels of the Bronx graffiti movement has developed into an industry as pioneers of the genre, such as Futura 2000, turned into commercially successful brands serving the balloons with paint the younger generation of street vandalism. The ideas and style of artists are actively used in advertising and design. Examples are not far to seek. They say, for example, that the appearance of numerous graffiti, one way or another play with the brand "Inhabited Island", not incidentally coincided with the premiere of the same movie. But soon it became known "Itogi, the fences will increasingly meet the famous logo of a cellular operator.
Native walls
In general, in Russia that the wall is not painted on that anyhow, and graffiti, found only in the mid 80's. Graffiti "the dancer at the" fashionable in those years, break-motion. But Moscow is still considered one of the most inhospitable cities for artists. By the way, none of the visiting French leave "to work" on the streets of Moscow did not want to. Or did not dare. ZEVS, for example, got burned last year in Hong Kong - had been caught by local authorities for coloring store Armani. In the company's office stated that the actions of the artist's cost them $ 7 million, and it is certainly not about the value of "art", but about the damage the building.
"In Moscow graffiti destroy surprisingly quickly - confessed" Itogi "artist Misha Most. - And daubed some terrible paint - do these patches more picturesque than the picture? Of course, a pity, but do nothing - just more paint. " But, say, in Italy, where they planned to introduce fines for graffiti (up to 10 thousand euros!), Mayor of Rome has announced the expansion of legal art oasis. We have the same until the last time was negligible, almost five. The best known - is, of course, the famous Wall of Victor Tsoi on the Arbat. It is fair to say that in recent years, the situation is changing. City authorities are trying to legalize graffitist, organizing festivals or deploying large-scale projects on drawing on the city's buildings. Another thing is that not everyone on such cooperation are. One participant groups graffitist "Why" that respects the Cyrillic alphabet, told Itogi magazine: "We do not want to be led by the city government, every day paint our tags, but offers legal decorating transformer station. Needless to say, that the guys from that receive only a little paint, and officials launder money. Here in Moscow, graffiti is still in its infancy: in the city of ten million people, and people really involved in this, only a few hundred. They say to us even lay a thick folder somewhere in the Lubyanka ... "
Perhaps more so, our country remains on the periphery of the world trend. And it is too early to say that the street artists go into the high and expensive art. For our graffitist is rather a hobby. "In Russia, sold to individual authors, - shared Misha Most. - Maybe one in ten thousand, and sell oil on canvas, the rest do not live with that. I have a friend-graffitist - employee of the finance department. Not more than five percent of street artists are trying to feed the art - go to the airbrush, different types of design. I. .. actual art. Reach if they are ever to the gallery? Simon Faibisovich sure: «Contemporary art in the West have long been masters of recruits graffiti in contemporary art. After all, graffiti - an art, with the only difference that his goal in itself - expressed through zagvazdyvaniya walls in the space city ". Not for nothing because in the West are already emerging galleries specializing exclusively in the Street "Art: one - in Paris, three - the homeland of the genre, in New York. Curator Oxana Bondarenko believes that street art is quite able to take the path that has overcome the last years picture. At some point, it seems that all kinds of art - painting, sculpture, etc. - have exhausted themselves. And then you need to throw on the field a new player. In the 80's it was a photograph: half a century ago and nobody did not occur, that it can collect. So graffiti: yesterday it seemed that this is just a childish prank. And today you - contemporary art.
(more fully in the magazine "Itogi" № 28 (735) on 12.07.2010
http://www.itogi.ru/iskus/2010/28/154489.html)

Personally, my suggestion was made the main draw graffiti artist Sochi, a street in Sochi. If only for the Olympic and sports themes. The more so that now there is repair of all "Khrushchev" and "panelek" in the city. Predolzhenie been adequately vosprinyatno, but the street was reduced to a few houses in remote areas of the city. But this is not bad! Moreover, the portion of the funding, I am ready to take on. I think that a good project will, if of course it comes down to it.