ORIGINATES:Caves at Lascaux,
France
•Drawings and paintings
on cave walls from the
Paleolithic period (17,
300 years old)
•Discovered in 1940 by
four teenagers
•Depicting scenes of
everyday life, hunting
etc.
•scratched with animal
bones, natural pigments
Ancient Roman Graffiti-
•From Pompeii
(Italy)– graffiti on
wall
•Pompeii was
destroyed and
completely buried
during a long
catastrophic eruption
of the volcano Mount
Vesuvius spanning
two days in the year
AD 79.
URBAN GRAFFITI: 1970's NEW YORK, spray can graffiti, evolves alongside hip-hop culture, making language of the streets visible, announcing a presence. WE WILL NOT BE IGNORED.
JON NAAR graffiti photographer 1973:
From on Becoming a Graffiti
photographer, John Naar
• “you will see that the vast majority of these
writers came from the most run-down and
neglected sections of New
York....predominantly Hispanic and African
American. The graffiti they sprayed on the fronts
of their homes and on the trains... were a cry
for change from the ghetto to clean up the filthy
streets, to improve the quality of the schools,
and to reduce he glaring inequality between rich
and poor.” p20
Basquiat and Diaz started as students, created the character Samo:
1979: death of Samo, moved onto Neo Expressionist paintings
Basquiat worked with Warhol.
Keith Haring paints murals all over the world, Rio, Berlin etc.
VIDEO GAME CULTURE: Stencil from the Berlin Wall of a console controller commenting on lack of brands and technology on the Eastern block-political side to street art. PS2, XBOX games incorporating street art culture into video games: -Grand Theft Auto-tagging,
Re emergence of street art- Banksy
Photographer JR: Favela Morro Da Providencia- Rio (2008)
drawing attention to women as a sub group that are unrepresented:
John Fekner- Broken Promises 1980
Referring to shortage of houses and waste of building space
Faith 71 (Amsterdam) Sticker art- bridges the gap between hyperrealist and hyper-abstract art.
Sam 3 (Spain)-Turns city into a stage
VHIKS aka Alexandre Farto (Portugal)
Graffiti- to interact, to add to
Female Graffiti Artists:
DIVA (Brooklyn)
Fafi (France)
Miss Van
These days artists that have been to art college use and incorporate street art into their work, whereas before it was more about making a voice for the streets and getting noticed.
WARHOL AND BASQUIAT:
•General Electric with
waiter, 1984
•One of Americas
largest corporations
•Collaborated towards
the end of his life,
Basquiat died of a heroin
overdose 18 months
after Warhol
In 1981 he sketched his
first chalk drawings on
black paper and painted
plastic, metal and found
objects.
•In 1984, Haring visited
Australia and painted
wall murals in Melbourne
•Other commissions-
Rio, Paris, Berlin
Graffiti in video games
Invader
•French artist, born 1969
•First mosaic in mid
1990’s Paris
•Mosaic tile which has
permanency as it is
weatherproof and more
difficult to remove than
paper/paint
•Tiles are pixel like
•The ‘invasion’ spreads
first across French cities
and then 22 countries
worldwide
BANKSY
Banksy, 2005
• “The Israeli government is building a wall
surrounding the occupied Palestinian
territories. It stands three times the height
of the Berlin Wall and will eventually run
for over 700km- the distance from London
to Zurich. The wall is illegal under
international law and essentially turns
Palestine into the worlds largest open
prison. It also makes it the ultimate activity
holiday destination for graffiti writers.”
Graffiti in film
80 Blocks from Tiffany's (1979)
Style Wars (1983)
"Exit Through The Gift Shop" (2010)
