Graffitti and street art

Graffitti and street art 

• Caves a Lascaux france - scratched with animals bones natural pigments.
• Ancient roman graffiti - From pompeii italy , graffiti on wall.
• Kilroy/chad WWll engraving Kilroy on the world war ll in washington dc.
• Paris May'68 - we are the power - civil unrest inspiring cultural creative material
• Chris Osbourne - covers graffiti scene in the uk.

1970s New York scene

• Spray can graffiti
• Evolves alongside hip hop culture
• Making the language on the streets visible 
• Announcing a presence and saying 'we will not be ignored'

• Jon Narr photographer 1973 , messages be sent from deprived areas.

Jean - Michael Basquiat (1960-88) 

• SAMO-Same-OH , 
• Poetic but confusing style , humour.
• Death of SAMO 1979 kills his character.Neo expressionist painting 
• Warhol & Basquiat , General electric with waiter 1984
• One of americas largest corporations
• Collaborated towards the end of his life Basquiat died of a heroin overdose at 27.

Keith Haring 

• Subway art
• Huge galleries , melbourne
• Pop shop closed 2005 - selling T-shirts , toys , posters bearing his signature images. Celebrity hang out
• 'My shop is an extension of what i was doing in the subways'

• John Feckner Broken promises 1980 in two languages on to a building.
• Jenny Holzer - LCD digital display . 'Abuse of power comes as no surprise' 1980 - Truism messages that state the obvious but prompt you to think.

• Video game culture - FELIZ 1984 From berlin wall. Comment on the lack of availability of brands and technology in the eastern bloc.
• Advertising - TATS CRU 1997 for coca cola
• Gaming - Bomb the world (2004) 
• Jet Set Radio (2000-2003)
• sideways new york ps3 2011 , grand theft auto - tagging in games

Invader

• French artist born 1969
• First mosaic in mid 1990s paris
• Mosaic tile which has permanency as it is weatherproof and more difficult to remove than paper print
• tiles are pixel like
• the invasion spreads first across french cities.
•  Attack of Montpellier - Conceptual element:points on a map form a space invader

Re-emergence of street art

• Banksy kate moss
• Shepard Fairey 2008
• Parisian Photographer JR, Favaela Morro Da Provienda -Rio 2008 - Photographing the women of the town.
• Blu(italy) and Os Gemeos(Brazil) Lisbon 2010.
• Blu-animated graffiti (2008)
• Corsa ad 2011

123 KLAN-France - Founded as a graffiti crew in 1989 by scion and klor have gradually turned their hands to illustration. 

Stussy- '' Artist Series" tshirt with names on from people from there 'ghetto.

Paul Curtis (Moose) reverse Graffiti-removal of the dirt so he's not taking anything away from the environment.

THE GLOBAL PICTURE.

• Free art friday is an art movement in which artists place free art out in public for people to enjoy and take home. They work world wide and get artists to donate there work and they give it away for free.
• Sam 3 (spain) Murcia 2010
• VHILS aka Alexandrea Farto ( Portugual) London 2008
• Faith 71 - Amsterdam , Red stickers round a natural hole in plaster 
• Diva (Brooklyn) 
• Fafi(France) - Cartoon sexuality , brings the female figure to the street
• Miss Van, Herakut , Swoon

Art of Resistance

• Banksy 2005 , The israel government is building a wall surround the occupied palestinian terrotories.
• Girl with balloons floating up to make it over the wall & Indigenous art.