Preamble
For your interest, I have listed below, other posts on this blogspot that centers on the use of street art:
Unleashed: The Rise of Australian Street Art
New York Spray-Can Memorials: A Backdrop to Life
Another Brick
Cultural Graffiti
Beyond the Fear of Freedom
Oh, Oh Marilyn and Mona@Spoonflower
Neu Kunst: Mona & Marilyn
Paste Modernism 4
Graffiti Versus Post Graffiti Art
Pure Evil - Street Art
3A Crew - Street Art
Street Graphics of Tokyo - Part I
Street Graphics of Tokyo - Part II
Street Art [1]
Street art is both an expression of the culture it resides in and a counterculture in itself. 'Communication' has become a modern mantra; the city streets and highways shout with bill boards, fly posters and corporate advertising, all vying for our attention. They almost invite a subversive response. As high-tech communication have increased, a low-tech reaction has been the recent explosion on street art.
Walk down the famous bluestone Hosier Lane and admire the street art that has made the Melbourne urban art scene known across the globe. Take in the dizzying array of colours, characters and shapes created by local and international artists alike. Pick out everything from stencils and paste-ups to murals and installations.
The street is a unique and powerful platform; a front line on which artists can express themselves, transmitting their personal visions directly to the public at the same level as official messages. No other art forms interact in this way with our daily lives, using urban space as its surface.
Graffiti Wall in Bondi Beach, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Street art in Australia. Surfers Paradise, on the Gold Coast.
In parallel with the accelerated communications of modern technology, images and ideas are spreading like viruses over walls across the world. These walls are experimental, uncensored and collaborative spaces, and the simple and effective beauty of stencilled graffiti offers great scope for expression, from protest art to poetry. There is a global new wave of artists who are discovering and expanding the possibility of the medium. This new work is strong in both form and ideas, using humour and irony to convey important and thought provoking messages about today's society.
From left to right: Peter Gabriel flightcase; Space Invader, Paris; Hand stencil, London; Obey Star by Shepard Fairy and Radiohead stencil, Melrose, California; Hand of Fatima, Paris; background portrait of Nylon.
From left to right: Viva Zapata, Barcelona, Louis Armstrong, Paris; 'Post No Bills,' Paris; Heart, Brighton, UK.
Street Arts are hybridizing, too. Inspired by street works, artists are increasingly using stencils on ArtCloth, canvas, metal, T-shirts, paper and in the digital realm.
Banksy Girl with Bluebird Stencil.
Designers of all kinds, fine artists and graffiti artists are expanding horizons with mixed media applications. Often multi-disciplined, today's stencil graffiti are using stencils with fly posters, stickers, collage and freehand painting, using spray and other paints, in ever-mutating and creative ways.
Reference:
[1] T. Manco, Stencil Graffiti, Thames & Hudson, London (2002).
For your interest, I have listed below, other posts on this blogspot that centers on the use of street art:
Unleashed: The Rise of Australian Street Art
New York Spray-Can Memorials: A Backdrop to Life
Another Brick
Cultural Graffiti
Beyond the Fear of Freedom
Oh, Oh Marilyn and Mona@Spoonflower
Neu Kunst: Mona & Marilyn
Paste Modernism 4
Graffiti Versus Post Graffiti Art
Pure Evil - Street Art
3A Crew - Street Art
Street Graphics of Tokyo - Part I
Street Graphics of Tokyo - Part II
Street Art [1]
Street art is both an expression of the culture it resides in and a counterculture in itself. 'Communication' has become a modern mantra; the city streets and highways shout with bill boards, fly posters and corporate advertising, all vying for our attention. They almost invite a subversive response. As high-tech communication have increased, a low-tech reaction has been the recent explosion on street art.
The street is a unique and powerful platform; a front line on which artists can express themselves, transmitting their personal visions directly to the public at the same level as official messages. No other art forms interact in this way with our daily lives, using urban space as its surface.
In parallel with the accelerated communications of modern technology, images and ideas are spreading like viruses over walls across the world. These walls are experimental, uncensored and collaborative spaces, and the simple and effective beauty of stencilled graffiti offers great scope for expression, from protest art to poetry. There is a global new wave of artists who are discovering and expanding the possibility of the medium. This new work is strong in both form and ideas, using humour and irony to convey important and thought provoking messages about today's society.
Street Arts are hybridizing, too. Inspired by street works, artists are increasingly using stencils on ArtCloth, canvas, metal, T-shirts, paper and in the digital realm.
Designers of all kinds, fine artists and graffiti artists are expanding horizons with mixed media applications. Often multi-disciplined, today's stencil graffiti are using stencils with fly posters, stickers, collage and freehand painting, using spray and other paints, in ever-mutating and creative ways.
Reference:
[1] T. Manco, Stencil Graffiti, Thames & Hudson, London (2002).
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