33 replies to this topic

[raubhimself]

i still think it's cliche, just my opinion. like people who do splatter art, pollock did that, let him have it.

i guess i don't mind if people do stencil art, i just wish they would do something different then what banksy is doing. i feel that artists can steal from one another but should make the style their own.

oh he's this famous british artist that started this whole kind of street art. oh

methinks you put too much stock in banksy? he didn't start stencil art. that shit's been around since spray paint was invented. his style is much more highbrow and thoughtful than most graffiti, but it's still graffiti. maybe i haven't seen the copycats enough, but to me stencil + spraypaint + political messages does not equal style. that's a medium and a message.

[chadk]

methinks you put too much stock in banksy? he didn't start stencil art. that shit's been around since spray paint was invented. his style is much more highbrow and thoughtful than most graffiti, but it's still graffiti. maybe i haven't seen the copycats enough, but to me stencil + spraypaint + political messages does not equal style. that's a medium and a message.

yes i agree that stencil graffiti has been around but i think that banksy took it to a different level. whether you think it doesn't equate to style is your opinion, and i respect that.

to me, there has been gaffitti, and there has been artists who have taken graffiti to "high" art levels. haring, basquiat, fairey, and of cousre banksy.

all who have distinctively differnt styles but all came from graffiti background.

that's a medium and a message

concerning this, isn't that what constitutes art? art only needs to have intention, doesn't mean that it's good or that you have to like it, but it is still art.

[raubhimself]

well i was thinking more along the lines that someone who draws squares and someone who draws circles have different artistic styles even if they both use the same medium and try to get across the same message.

i guess style is like an amalgamation of the artistic skill (circles or squares), medium (stencils or paint brushes), and the message (political or nature). change any one of those and you have a different style. i dunno, you're the art teacher



in regards to street art in general, i like it a lot when it's not trying to be needlessly inflammatory.

[chadk]

well i was thinking more along the lines that someone who draws squares and someone who draws circles have different artistic styles even if they both use the same medium and try to get across the same message.

i guess style is like an amalgamation of the artistic skill (circles or squares), medium (stencils or paint brushes), and the message (political or nature). change any one of those and you have a different style. i dunno, you're the art teacher

ah ha. i think maybe i am talking more about art movements. where in those movements there are different styles. as an example the impressionist movement where the idea was that the artists where painting the impressions that they got from looking at some thing and trying to show other people what kind of an impression the they got from it. and then there are obviously differences in the impressionist painters styles, such as renoir, degas, seruat, monet.

i kind of like to humor the thought of a ton of people biting on degas style and people like me saying wtf that not a real degas


in regards to street art in general, i like it a lot when it's not trying to be needlessly inflammatory.

yea totally

[Jacki O.]

i like walking down the street and seeing something that someone made (breaking the law to do it btw) that makes me smile or think or just pulls me out of my lull. i like that.


i also think public art is different in every city, it's kinda like a voice of that city. Sure some of the art looks the same in Chicago as it does in NYC or Paris or Rome or Barcelona or London but a lot of it also looks totally different. Free art in Boston is different than free art in Phoenix.

[chadk]

i like walking down the street and seeing something that someone made (breaking the law to do it btw) that makes me smile or think or just pulls me out of my lull. i like that.

i like that thought, and the the thing that becky posted about the mom doing graffiti for her kids is also touching.

[MikeyWretch]

Its like bathroom walls. So much better when I can read all the crap the people have written and drawn. Its mostly always pictures of dicks and boobies but sometimes you find some real gems that make you laugh as you poop/pee!

[John MFer]

Someone did Megaman on the Psychology Building at ASU Tempe a couple years ago.

[Shervz0r]

Its like bathroom walls. So much better when I can read all the crap the people have written and drawn. Its mostly always pictures of dicks and boobies but sometimes you find some real gems that make you laugh as you poop/pee!

So true...so many good classic poems too:

Those who write on shithouse walls
Roll their shit into little balls
Those read these words of wit
Will eat those little balls of shit

[chadk]

ok when were in paris we saw some mosaic graffiti like this, this is pretty rad. mostly atari space invaders type stuff, this dude should be should get some attention

[Jacki O.]

[MikeyWretch]

Thats dope!

[jeremx]

i know jeremy cutthroat had some stuff out there. you can probably find by looking for his myspace..

[mattm]

1. Hahahah drop tunings
2. yeah stencils are done, but they will be over done and beaten to a pulp... uninspired possibly, but still some cool stuff
3. I would prefer new exciting art... like black and white photos of:
a) homeless folks
b ) broken weathered fences/ buildings
c) grandma's hands
d) twitpic dicpics

[Jacki O.]

3. I would prefer new exciting art... like black and white photos of:
a) homeless folks
b ) broken weathered fences/ buildings
c) grandma's hands
d) twitpic dicpics

oh yes black and white photos of that stuff have never been done before!!!