Street Art

[gans]

Municipality of the British city of Bristol is going to soon allow citizens themselves to evaluate the dignity of wall paintings. If the graffiti on buildings or fences like people, and the owners do not object to the walls, the city government will not erase favorite images, reported The Guardian.

According to the results of the 2006 referendum, the citizens of Bristol, almost unanimously (97%) decided not to remove the graffiti of the famous British graffitist Banksy with "classic" story: suddenly appeared husband looks out the window to see the fugitive lover's wife, who, completely naked, hanging under the window, holding on to the windowsill. All this is depicted on the wall of the clinic for treatment of sexual disorders. In June 2009, in Bristol, was shot by unknown graffiti from paintball guns. City Council then decided that it was necessary to allocate funds for restoration works.

Born in Bristol, Banksy carefully hides all information about yourself. It is believed that he was born in 1974, and first began creating graffiti in the early 1990's. His works are highly valued in the art market. Thus, in early 2008 at an auction in New York his work Keep It Spotless was sold for £ 950 thousand, recalled the newspaper.

An attempt to clarify the relationship bristoltsev with street art made after the end of a town museum exhibition Banksy. From June to August 2009 it was visited by more than 300 thousand people, and in the weekends even stood 6-hour queue. After the success of the exhibition Banksy municipality has decided to continue to ask for views of the residents.

But not always work Banksy meet the public so warmly. In June 2008 the local council of one of the northern areas of London graffiti paint over it because of the complaints residents. Painting size 1,2 x1, 2 meters on a bright green wall of the house depicted two girls at the desk, which has a Kalashnikov rifle. The government then declared that to leave graffiti Banksy - is to encourage drawing on the walls. "It's graffiti and we treat them that way, Banksy whether they draw or anyone else", - explained the representative of the Board. In October 2008 the authority of the central London removed from the wall of a house graffiti Banksy height of 7 meters, with the image of the boy, the writer of the huge letters "A nation under the gun CCTV», and a policeman with a dog. Thus, Banksy protested against the installation in the British cities of CCTV cameras (CCTV), which, in the opinion of many citizens, turning Britain into a country of total surveillance.

http://www.artchronika.ru/news.asp?idnews=101

[Тютчев]

painting the French energy

July 9, 2008, membrana

  Fundamentally - this is how? In the first place - a large scale: tens of meters in width and height. And it is desirable that in color. And sure - that is realistic. What are we? Yes, almost everything - on the pipes, power plants, dams and other nemelkih things. However, it is unclear how this is possible, however somehow they are doing, these artists!
One of them - French painter Jean-Marie Pierre (Jean-Marie Pierret), who took and painted like a dam in the area of France Tin (Tignes).

The history of this structure dates back to 1920, when the nearby villages began to talk about the upcoming construction. Residents very worried, because the houses would have flooded.

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Soon after construction began. Naturally, the public raised the noise, and in 1952 rumors have been fully met: the dam will finish it, but when it allowed into operation - flooded all that going to flood. This action was in some sense justified: that was planned to commission a powerful power stations working on this dam, which was supposed to produce up to 10%of electricity throughout France.

Soon, however, French industry abruptly switched to the development of nuclear energy, so the dam has remained unclaimed. The only dubious benefit, which can be obtained from it - is to look at the remains of the village at the bottom of the reservoir, from where it once a decade, releasing water as a preventive measure.

And then came 1989, and Jean-Marie Pierre decided to pay for dam images of mythical hero Hercules (Hercules). For this case, he armed himself, of course, paint and took with him eight climbers who have helped him to create the image. And so it was easy to do, the surface had to be divided into hundreds of thousands of squares with a side twenty centimeters - a sort of pixels.

More about this product have nothing to say - yes and no reason, one can only admire the spectacular result.

Interestingly, because of this dam is really handy - as a tourist attraction to attract tourists during the Olympic Winter Games 1992 in Albertville (Albertville). For this, in fact, the authorities and offered the artist to create such a masterpiece.

Jean-Marie Pierre did not stop there, and in 1991 painted a nuclear power plant cooling tower in the SADC (Cruas). Simply station owners have decided to declare in this way about their environmental concerns and, perhaps, of his own green manufacturability. So they invited our hero.

The artist is not refused, and went to work, picked up 4 thousand liters of paint and called this time, nine climbers.

The picture also has been astronomical, mythological - it is called "Aquarius" (Aquarius), which, of course, is depicted Aquarius. A piece dedicated to the problems of clean air and water, so.

It is interesting that, despite such immodest scale of creativity, information about Jean-Marie almost no - at least on the web. Even his other works. Who knows, maybe under this name is hiding some street artist, and even a simple school teacher drawing? ..

Another of his countryman, Frederic Gracia (Frederic Gracia), also loves to paint, and also something great, and not less than realistic.

His passion gigantomanskimi images started just with "Aquarius" Pierre: Gracia was the director of this project. A desire for realism (with a hyper-realism), he had apparently always been - that Frederick and famous among the French painters.

Photo-quality images he has painted a lot of things. Typically, these were the walls, but the summer of 2007 he chose a new facility, which also refers to the energy industry. Another "victim" began to pipe thermal power plant in the area Bagnolet (Bagnolet).

What and how he painted - can see for yourself. The image must be said, suffered rather quickly - in just two months. Subjects, again, natural and ecological.

It's funny that the diameter of the largest drop of 1.1 meters, although the "prototype" for the figure was no more than three millimeters.

We do not know how to design the next time gets painter. But, obviously, that after his next masterpiece will all have to fall in love with industrial landscapes.

Photo:

1. Looks pretty cartoon this masterpiece. But it is in the picture, but in reality everything is not for fun: chimney height - 155 meters! (photo from gosleepgo.com)

  2. At first glance it is difficult to understand what kind of guy. But if you look closely as it should, then it can learn Hercules. The height of the dam is 181 meters and the width reaches 250. Nowadays, as seen by the lower snapshot, the picture is already rather obliterated, and the dam itself does not look so bravely (photo from gosleepgo.com).

3. The creation of "Aquarius" It took a total of about 8 thousand hours of work (photo from the site de.wikipedia.org and wano.org.uk).

4. "Aquarius" only underscored the already spectacular view nuclear power plant in SADC. However, in an entertainment station, it still did not turn (photo from de.wikipedia.org).

5. Gracia painted pipes mainly on their own, but he had to occasionally refer to the help of assistants, who had to provide radios and binoculars. In the two months were quite a few windy and rainy days, but this did not stop work (photo from gracia.club.fr).

6. Station in Bagnolet until last summer, and after (photo from gracia.club.fr).

7. The main result of labor - Local residents are satisfied, claiming that he was proud updated station (photo from gracia.club.fr).
 
8. A certain unnamed water tower was nothing done wrong "in terms of ecology, however, and Gracia decorate. I still have a tube (right). For many in the pipes gossip - nice work! (photo from gracia.club.fr)

[Seriy]

saw a lot of graffiti in various cities, but as a painting that activity can not be considered. Because of poor workmanship.
So yes-expression, urbanism, non-conformism, all this is and involves. But so constituted the human eye and brain, that if the paint dull white paint on canvas is a blundering, but if you create the same white color, having written his brush strokes of pink, blue, yellow, gray, is an art - a painting, the eye and the brain is interesting. So arranged the "white" portraits of Picasso, he has such a series.
The same with graffiti. Therefore gans-y, like the dilapidated graffiti appears texture and dull digital not like.
In this direction he went and Basquiat. I already wrote in relevant part, that Basquiat - is Rauschenberg, over which the balloon nabryzgany fellows, m e the richness of color and texture, which have acquired the abstract expressionists, he combined with expression and urbanism, youth graffiti - turned out well. The street is impossible to create is quite Îáüåìíûå time job and requires the mixing of colors, creating subtle nuances that, with balloons is problematic.

And regarding the terms-Street Art - is a broad term that includes street jugglers and playing music in the underpass. So, what we are talking, basically-graffiti. And, of course, street performances-type, cut a prepared home object and paste it into some sort of street busiest place is not graffiti. Graffiti originally-mark territory and to require her artistry, well, I do not know ... The case of the drawing in Chernobyl is again a performance, because the image itself is not as important as context-where, how, the environment, subtext ...

[gans]

Сообщение от Seriy

saw a lot of graffiti in various cities, but as a work of art that can not be considered. Because of poor workmanship.
So yes-expression, urbanism, non-conformism, all this is and involves. But so constituted the human eye and brain, that if the paint dull white paint on canvas is a blundering, but if you create the same white color, having written his brush strokes of pink, blue, yellow, gray, is an art - a painting, the eye and the brain is interesting. So arranged the "white" portraits of Picasso, he has such a series.

I can not agree. In my opinion, street art texture than any other. Many of the walls, and without pictures, can already be considered as works of art, and if more correctly, add artistic elements in the right places, and take into account the special aura of the city, the art comes to life just as much about the "poor texture and can not speak.

[gans]

16 - Oct. 18, Gallery Street Kit organizes cultural - cognitive share STREETS WITHOUT BORDERS.

Opening Oct. 16 at 19:00
Marsh Quay, 5 Metro Kropotkinskaya

will be submitted to the artist GUALICHO (Buenos - Aires, Argentina).

October 17, ie on the second day will be a lecture and master class GUALICHO.
Sign up for the master - class can write a letter with the name and last name on "master class" to address [email protected]

Details here http://streetkitgallery.com/pages/112

[Ухтомский]

Moscow street artists

[Ухтомский]

Moscow street artists

[Jasmin]

Сообщение от gans

Many of the wall, and without pictures, can already be considered as works of art,

This and Leonardo da Vinci wrote ...

[gans]

Сообщение от Jasmin

This and Leonardo da Vinci wrote ...

more detail about this can be?

[gans]

From October 12 to October 20. in 5m Guild VINZAVOD
in a parallel program the 3rd Moscow Biennale

Mark Jenkins - Allergy /UNBODIED

details here http://winzavod.livejournal.com/337367.html#cutid1