GRAFFITI/STREET ART LECTURE

1. CAVES AT LASCAUX, FRANCE

-drawings and paintings on cave walls from Paleolithic period (17,300 yrs old)

- discovered 194 by teens

- scratched with bones and pigments 

caves at Lascaux

2. ANCIENT ROMAN GRAFFITI

- from Pompeii 

- caricature of politicians

3. KILROY/CHAD WWII

Kilroy

-not authored by one person, used by anyone but always the same

- comic value

4. PARIS MAY '68

-political graffiti

- 'we are the power'

- civil unrest inspiring cultural/creative material

- DIY posters that advertised rallies = Marc Rohan book

5. URBAN GRAFFITI

-1970s New York

- spray can graffiti

- evolves alongside hiphop culture

announcing a presence, represents an unrepresented group

- groups that feel invisible

-JON NAAR, photographer, 1973, sympathetic to art form

Jon Naar

6. GRAFFITI AS AN ART FORM

-JEAN MICHAEL BASQUIAT 1960-88

-SAMO, same old shit!

- ironic use of copyright

- death of SAMO 1979

- moved his style into his painting

- neo expressionist paintings

- part of real celeb movement at the time...dated Madonna, was in films, videoes etc worked with WARHOL

-WARHOL AND BAS.

- general electric with water 1984, warhol and bas.

- Basquiat died of heroin overdose 18months after Warhol died

-KEITH HARING

-artists and social activist

- RADIANT BABY 1990

- work started in lo-fi manner

- 1981 sketched first chalk drawings in subway

- 1984 painted murals in Melbourne...commissioned to paint all over the world

- "POPSHOP"

-JOHN FECKNER

-BROKEN PROMISES, 1980

- paints stenciled phrases onto buildings

-JENNY HOLZER

-TIMES SQUARE SHOW. 1980

7. VIDEO GAME CULTURE

- Berlin wall, comment on lack of availability of brands and tech in Eastern block

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90s hiatus in graffiti

8. 

-TATS CRU, 1997 for coca cola

- devaluating effect on graffiti

- BOMB THE WORLD (2004)

-ps2, ugly video game design

-JET SET RADIO 2000-3

- even uglier game

9. STREET ART

-INVADER, french artist

- use of mosaic tile

- spreads across French cities then 22 countries worldwide

- BANKSY AND SHEPARD FAIREY..............

- PARISIAN PHOTOGRAPHER JR

- enlarges images and posts them onto buldings

-political project, Favela Morro Da Provienda, Rio 2008

-BLU (italy) and QS GEMEOS (brazil) 2010

- 123 KLAN

- founded as graff crew 1989 by Scien and Klor

-turned to illustration and design for top brands (Stussy, Nike etc)

-PAUL CURTIS (MOOSE) from Leeds

- involved in Sound Clash label

-reverse graffiti

- taking away dirt and grime of envrion.

-SAM 3 

- only uses black paint

-turns city into a stage

-VHILS aka Alexandre Farto

-FAITH 71

-DIVA

-female artist

-FAFI