street art basics and swoon

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Graffiti

“graffiti”

Writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.

Stickers and other adhesives can also be considered graffiti. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to

elaborate wall paintings.

Aerosol spray&

paint markers

Scratchitietching acids

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Vandalism

“vandalism”

Vandalism is the behavior attributed originally to the Vandals, by the Romans, in respect of culture: ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or venerable. The term also includes criminal damage such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any

property without permission of the owner.Sources: Wikipedia and Oxford Dictionary

The Vandals

Visigoths Sack Of Rome in 410 CE by J N Sylvestre 1890

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Street Art

“street art”

Street art is art, specifically visual art, developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to illegal placed art, as opposed to government sponsored art. The term can include traditional

graffiti artwork, sculpture, stencil graffiti, Lock On´s , sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, and

street installations.Source: Wikipedia and Oxford Dictionary

Lock on’s

Ghost bikes byThe NYC street Memorial Project

Tape sculptures By Mark Jenkins

Stencils

Shopping JesusBy Banksy

Sculptures

Banksy

Aakash Nihalani

Stickers (adhesives)

aakash nihalani

stikman

What is wheat paste?

Water, flour and sugar (and copper sulphate to make it insect resistant)

Keeps for about a week

Swoon“At first I was so wound up about being a woman in a man's field that I didn't want to talk about it at all. I was making art out on the street, and no one knew I was a woman for at least a year, maybe three. “

Swoon is a NYC based artist who has caught the eye of the world with her beautiful wheatpaste prints and cutout paper depictions of everyday street scenes. Her life-size pieces, often of her friends, family and neighbors, interact with their urban environment so well it often seems the city streets would not be complete without them.

Swoon (1977- )

“When I first began to do street work, part of my impulse had to do with those things that are meant to disappear and the ability to just let things go. I use recycled newsprint that I order in 90-pound rolls. It’s extremely thin and is one of my favorite papers to use because of the way it decays. It yellows. It cracks. It has this whole life cycle that I really like.”�

Guerrero2006

Family Feeding Pigeons2006

Family Feeding Pigeons(or what’s left of it)

2006

Family Feeding Pigeons (sculpture)2006

How does this artist use LINE?

Zaharaprint on wood

2010

Linoleum cut for Zahara

Zahara (various prints)

Mixed Media:Wood, fabric,Cardboard, paper

detail of Swoon piece from 2011

Swoon (video)

Wheat Pasting

Obey(Shepard Fairey)