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Of course I looked, I'm a big fan of (sanctioned) street art and was expecting to see 27 stories wonderfully engulfed in a creative dreamworld. Searching for "g
by buran77 3y ago
Of course I looked, I'm a big fan of (sanctioned) street art and was expecting to see 27 stories wonderfully engulfed in a creative dreamworld. Searching for "graffiti pieces" on your hint turned up some quite skillful pieces, nothing like 90+% of the tags in the article.
Does anyone consider the words "SOUP" written in blue letters and pink contour (top left title picture), or "AKDE" in all black bold letters (top right), or plain white lettered "LOSTKA" (second picture middle), or the absolute jumble of plain green text right next to it as anything other than low effort spraying of paint on a wall?
Nobody presumes some guy shouting in the park is a talented singer and the shouting is quality art. And someone kicking in your door wasn't actually a ballet dancer performing their art. Tagging your name or your crew on a wall is nothing different. People want their name on a wall because it makes them feel important or memorable. They are neither, and this "tag" art is in the same vein as someone drawing dicks on the side of library books. Low effort, low skill, just making the real artists look bad in the name of some short lived boost of ego and self-importance.
Some decades ago I organized in my adoptive home town several yearly "celebrations" that were a combination of book-fest, food-fest, and street-art-fest. As a thank you for organizing this I was always invited to put my own "art" on the walls. Due to my distinct lack of talent in this area it was limited to a tag-style signature in a corner of some real art. So I managed to do the same level (albeit slightly smaller scale) of street art as these taggers with no preparation and two left hands. It was a punchline against the incredible art the others put on there. Random internet examples [0].
[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=graffiti+art&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=graffiti+art&iax=images&ia=images
- Kon-Peki 3y ago> I'm a big fan of (sanctioned) street art Exactly. In my old neighborhood the local college organizes a matching service - building owners and artists. The building owner (and random people that make donations) pays artists to make public art on their buildings. It provides housing (if they are from out of town), lifts and safety gear (if needed), paint, etc. Some of them are huge [1] [2] [3] [4] but most are pretty small, that you would miss unless you are walking through the area [5] [6] [7] [1] http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/big-walls-ella-pitr/ http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/big-walls-ella-... [2] http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/diosa-jasmina-cazacu/ http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/diosa-jasmina-c... [3] http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/big-walls-kobra/ http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/big-walls-kobra... [4] http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/mad-c/ http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/mad-c/ [5] http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/wabash-arts-corri-doors-skellulite/ http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/wabash-arts-cor... [6] http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/tima-fatima-ezzahra-khilad/ http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/tima-fatima-ezz... [7] http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/wabash-arts-corr-doors-tara-hamilton/ http://wabashartscorridor.org/portfolio_page/wabash-arts-cor...